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Seeing stderr from PHP exec()
27 July 2007
Read moreToday I was using the PHP command exec() in a script, which runs whatever you pass to it as it you had typed it on the command line. Its possible to check both the output of the command and the return value, which I did since I wasn’t getting …
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Posting with images in Joomla!
15 May 2007
Read moreThe other day I was helping someone post to a website that I set up using Joomla! , and thought that others might find this tutorial helpful.
Start with the “Media Manager” button on the front page. This is so you can add all the images. Directories can be added here …
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9 Steps to PHP Documentation Heaven
02 April 2007
Read more- Download PHPDocumentor and uncompress it into a directory inside your web root.
- Access the web interface by going to phpdoc.php in the newly extracted directory
- Enter the directory you would like to document
- Enter the directory the output should appear in (this needs to exist and be writable by …
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PHP Best Practices
26 March 2007
Read moreThere’s a new thread started over at phpwomen.org about best practices for programming with PHP, which will make interesting reading for anyone looking to improve their skills. I’ve been really brave and contributed one of the articles, PHPDoc: Comments are your friends.
People are all contributing a …
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PHP Throwdown Icon
23 March 2007
Read moreAs you may remember we participated in the PHP Throwdown a while ago. Well Elizabeth has sent out the icons to competitors who successfully got through the 24 hours and submitted something which vaguely conformed to the rules. You can see ours on the left :)
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Does PHP know itself?
23 March 2007
Read moreI’ve run into a problem with a framework I’ve been contributing to. It has a bunch of objects, which look a lot like rows in database tables. So there are pages and each page object is a row in the “pages” table in the database, with a primary …
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PHP register_globals is ON
08 March 2007
Read moreI started writing PHP when I was at University, in 2001 or thereabouts. Having checked the dates it looks like I did technically write PHP before PHP 4.3 was released and register_globals went out of fashion. I don’t recall it though and obviously its been a while!
Today …
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UK PHP Conference: The Roundup
02 March 2007
Read moreAs promised, here’s a more in-depth update on our trip to the PHP London Conference last week. I’m sure there are others who will write more fluently and accurately about the talks, but here’s what I brought home from it.
Cal Evans: My First Mashup
Cal is …
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UK PHP Conference: The Highlights
25 February 2007
Read moreI’ve been away for a couple of days at the UK PHP Conference in London. Due to the unique way that train ticket prices work here, it was wildly cheaper to travel a day either side of the day we actually wanted to be in London for which allowed …
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CMS Promiscuity
11 February 2007
Read moreThis site is run by textpattern, I’ve used it a few times and I love it. In addition you may have read about my recent encounters with Joomla! .
This week I’m trying out Serendipity for another site and its quite a change. For a start I haven’t …
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PHPThrowdown Coding Contest
28 January 2007
Read moreThis weekend, Kevin (boyfriend) and I took part in the first PHPThrowdown event. While its true that programming contests aren’t new, I haven’t seen one that seemed relevant to me for a while and they do take a lot of organisation – so kudos to the organisers including fellow …
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Why PHP isn't so bad
13 January 2007
Read moreI love PHP. I’ve worked with a fair number of languages and I have to say that I absolutely love PHP. I love its cleanliness, its elegance, and its fabulours online documentation and community support.
I come across a lot of people in various walks of life who rubbish …