Posts Tagged ‘PHP
Behind the Scenes at OSNews
I just started putting together a series of articles I will be publishing on OSNews. I’ve only roughly sketched it out, but in short, it’s going to discuss how OSNews works, how the PHP is structured, why we made certain architectural decisions, why we don’t use tried-and-true CMSes like WordPress, Slash, or Joomla!, and how, [...]
Flip 3.0.1
I never expected to release another version of my old weblog project Flip, but while searching my own name in a new search engine, I came upon several vulnerability reports for Flip 3.0. I’ve known about them for awhile now, but having dropped Flip in favor of another project (which I’ve since abandoned, for [...]
Microsoft’s Web App Gallery FAIL
Giving Microsoft, IIS, and PHP.exe the benefit of the doubt, I decided to try installing WordPress on Windows via Microsoft’s new Web Application Gallery. The install is simple and straightforward: install MySQL, go to the web app gallery, click on the download, choose what you want, poof! Done.
I got the first few steps knocked [...]
Posting Your Latest Tweet in Wordpress
Although I posted yesterday how to add your latest tweet to Wordpress without a plugin, I made several changes to the script before I posted it to make it more “generic” and re-usable. Since I’ve changed it quite a bit, I decided to repost it. This new script also autolinks @usernames and #hash tags.
Directions [...]
How to Add Latest Tweet to Wordpress (Without a Plugin)
I decided to add my latest “tweet” from Twitter to the sidebar of my Wordpress blog. Rather than use yet another plugin that adds yet another hook – and there are many that do this with lots of code, I decided to use a homegrown solution, dependant only on PHP4+ and cURL (most webhosts [...]
Sorting a Multi-Dimensional Array with PHP
Every so often I find myself with a multidimensional array that I want to sort by a value in a sub-array. I have an array that might look like this:
//an array of some songs I like
$songs = array(
‘1′ => array(’artist’=>’The Smashing Pumpkins’, ’songname’=>’Soma’),
‘2′ => array(’artist’=>’The Decemberists’, ’songname’=>’The Island’),
‘3′ => array(’artist’=>’Fleetwood Mac’, ’songname’ =>’Second-hand [...]
firsttube.com Upgraded To Wordpress 2.7
So far, one problem, two gripes. My problem is that I can’t seem to get posts with dots in the slug title to work right, even though I once solved this problem before. What’s worse is that it won’t fetch those posts anymore, which really sucks.
Onto my gripes. I can’t get inline replying/threading to work. [...]
WordPress 2.7 RC1
I just downloaded and installed WordPress 2.7 RC1. The upgrade took about 3 minutes, end to end, and the “several moments” database upgrade took less than 2 seconds. All in the all, there’s very little to notice on the front end that is different, I haven’t been able to test comment threading yet. [...]
PHP Weirdness
Beware: this post is definitely not for the feint of heart. It includes a lot of code. You have been warned.
I wrote an application some time ago for my company that looks up the longitude and latitude of an address for use in our geocoding initiative. It relied on yahoo_geo(), a function [...]
OSNews vs. WordPress
I’ve spent quite a bit of time, over the last 5 or 6 days, diving into WordPress and learning what makes it tick. Parts of WordPress are really impressive – just flat out cool. The way some of it works is fairly complex and deciphering it sometimes means reading page after page after page to understand an [...]
