Remote PHP debugging
After 8 or so years of being a professional web developer I today finally cracked using a debugger with PHP. I've been a long suffering PHPEdit user from since it was open source and into having to …
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My PHP application directory structure
Rob Allen, who is on PHPWM and who I met at the recent PHPWM meeting in Worcester posted something on his blog detailing his prefered directory structure recently. Here's mine, seemingly nicked …
Emulating PHP's substr() with Smarty [sort of]
Today I had a requirement to strip off the first 9 digits from a string from within a Smarty template. The system using Smarty is totally locked down so no access to plugins or using …
Midlands interweb groups
I've only been living in the midlands for a few months now but have already found two promising groups: The Multi Pack and PHP West Midlands. Multipack seems to be a bit more designery but they are …
Siftware is go
We've unpacked all of our boxes (apart from all of the ones in my office, it seems), put as many again in the loft, and all members of family Beale are settling nicely into our new life. I'm …
Wordpress spam plugin
After getting over 200 comment spams in 2 days I decided to implement an automatic spam blacklist system as manual parsing wasn't cutting it any more. Akismet seems good: We can’t stand spam. Who can? …
Installing Ruby on Rails onto Debian Sarge with Apache 1.3
After quite a bit of resistance on my part I'm afraid that it's time to get down with the kids, hence: Install ruby apt-get install irb1.8 libreadline-ruby1.8 libruby libruby1.8 rdoc1.8 ruby ruby1.8 …
MySQL Workbench
I just downloaded MySQL workbench 1.06 beta. I stumbled across it after finding this message on the DBDesigner forum page: Dear DBDesigner4 users, Due to several attacks against the DBDesigner4 forum …
Enabling spell checking within FCKeditor
CMS Made Simple uses the great GPL WYSIWYG editor FCKeditor and I noticed this morning that it has a spell checking facility. To get it to work, I: Installed aspell on my dev server: apt-get install …
Adding arbitrary PHP to a CMS Made Simple website
CMS made simple (CMSms) is great as it does what it says on the tin e.g. it's a CMS and it's easy to use and configure. Most importantly for me, it's easy to skin and modify. It uses Smarty as a …