PHP Architect

php | architect: A print magazine for PHP developers.

Published: July 14, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 1000

PHP vs. Perl

PHP in contrast to Perl: As much as I adore PHP, this article makes a lot of good points when comparing PHP to Perl: PHP has separate functions for case insensitive operations... PHP has inconsistent function naming... PHP has too many functions in the core I'll be the first to ...

Published: July 16, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 996

Desktop Apps in PHP

A link I may come to regret showing Deane: DevX has an article on PHP-GTK, which provides PHP bindings to the GIMP Tool Kit, the foundation of the GNOME desktop environment. Now, PHP has begun to carve a space for itself in the standalone application arena as well with PHP-GTK. ...

Published: June 1, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 993

PHP-Freelancers.com

PHP-Freelancers : PHP Jobs and Projects for PHP Programmers: Go get yourself a job. Kind of like eLance for PHP developers. Post a project, bid on a project, etc.

Published: November 6, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 992

PHP Collaboration Project

PHP Collaboration Project: Zend has announced that they're developing a new framework and "environment" for PHP. [...] the initial focus is on two areas: the creation of an open source Zend PHP Framework and engagement with the Eclipse Foundation around PHP. Having a PHP IDE and framework will empower PHP ...

Published: October 20, 2005 Geek Popularity Factor: 984

PHP 3D

As long as we're on the subject of PHP tomfoolery, I found something else of interest. I was going to reply to Deane's last PHP post with a snide comment like "What's next, 3D graphics with PHP?". Then I found this: php_opengl is the bindings from opengl, glu, and glut ...

Published: June 4, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 984

The End of the "PHP sucks" Argument

PHP Sucks, But It Doesn t Matter: Jeff Atwood essentially closes the PHP sucks argument by agreeing with it, then explaining why it doesn t matter. The TIOBE community index I linked above? It s written in PHP. Wikipedia, which is likely to be on the first page of anything you search for ...

Published: May 21, 2008 Geek Popularity Factor: 983

Phalanger: PHP for .Net

Phalanger - the PHP Language Compiler for .NET Framework: The idea of working with this is enough to make your head explode. [...] the object model in Phalanger enables to combine PHP objects with the .NET ones. It is possible to use a class written in PHP from a .NET ...

Published: November 18, 2005 Geek Popularity Factor: 983

Tim Bray on PHP

On PHP: There have been a lot of blogs jumping around on PHP in the last few days, and I've finally tracked it back to its source. Tim Bray -- one of the "pillars of the Web," if I can be so bold -- posted about PHP a week ago. ...

Published: February 22, 2006 Geek Popularity Factor: 982

Microsoft Contributes PHP Extension

SQL Server 2005 Driver for PHP: Lo and behold, Microsoft has written a PHP extension. It s a data access component for SQL Server which PHP already has, so I guess I m not sure how it improves things, but it s pretty cool coming from Microsoft, anyway. The SQL Server Driver for PHP ...

Published: October 16, 2007 Geek Popularity Factor: 980

PHP as a Scripting Language

Remember: PHP is scripting language!: Some good advice that people tend to forget. One of the oft-overlooked aspects of PHP is that you can write scripts in PHP to execute from the command line. I fell into the habit of writing data munging scripts in Perl, and web pages using ...

Published: December 8, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 978

Hardened PHP

Hardened PHP: For when PHP just isn't secure enough. Hardened-PHP adds security hardening features to PHP to protect your servers on the one hand against a number of well known problems in hastily written PHP scripts and on the other hand against potential unknown vulnerabilities within the engine itself.

Published: May 28, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 978

PHP Editors

PHP Editor Review: Here's a site apparently devoted to nothing but PHP IDEs. What will they think of next?

Published: January 20, 2005 Geek Popularity Factor: 968

PHP4 End of Life Announcement

PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor: PHP 4 has officially been discontinued. No more updates after 12/31, and no more security patches after August 2008. Today it is exactly three years ago since PHP 5 has been released. In those three years it has seen many improvements over PHP 4. PHP 5 is ...

Published: July 13, 2007 Geek Popularity Factor: 968

The PHP Anthology

The PHP Anthology: SitePoint writes some books now and again, and they appear to have come up with a big winner in "The PHP Anthology: Volumes 1 and 2." These books are written by PHP evangelist Harry Fuecks, who is to PHP what Ben Forta is to ColdFusion. I downloaded ...

Published: May 24, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 962

PHP History

PHP programming language: Some interesting history on PHP. It used to be a Perl wrapper? PHP was originally designed as a wrapper around Perl by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1994 to display his resume information and collect some data, such as how many hits it was generating. Others first used "Personal ...

Published: May 27, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 961

Mozilla Can Execute PHP Client Side

MozPHP: More and more, PHP is being seen as a command line and application scripting language. "MozPHP is a Mozilla PHP integration package. With MozPHP you can execute PHP scripts in Mozilla directly without the need for a local HTTP server. Currently the integration is one way, i.e. it is ...

Published: September 12, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 960

Programming PHP at Wikibooks

Programming:PHP - Wikibooks: Wikibooks has an entire, free PHP book online. It's a work in progress, but still very usable.

Published: December 2, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 960

PHP.net URL Shortcuts

PHP: URL Howto: This is a little known but great feature of the PHP Web site. If you write in a PHP.net URL, like http://www.php.net/links, first this URL is matched against the PHP.net pages. If there is a page named links.php, then you'll get that page immediately. This type of ...

Published: December 2, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 960

PHP Design Patterns

phpPatterns(): A site devoted to PHP desgin patterns.

Published: July 23, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 959

PHP 5 Hits The Street

PHP version 5.0.0 has now officially been released, bringing a large number of long-overdue changes to PHP. The Zend Engine II with a new object model and dozens of new features. XML support has been completely redone in PHP 5, all extensions are now focused around the excellent libxml2 library ...

Published: July 14, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 958

Perl Extension for PHP

Using Perl code from PHP: The possibilities here make my head spin. Problem is, I don't know if it's spinning in a good way or a bad way. The PHP Perl extension was implemented to allow the usage of Perl code from within PHP. It is a wrapper that embeds ...

Published: April 16, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 957

ASP.Net vs. PHP

Migrating from PHP to ASP.NET: Not biased, I'm sure. "This paper discusses the migration of PHP (PHP:Hypertext Preprocessor 4) to ASP.NET. It compares and contrasts the basic underlying syntax of PHP with Microsoft Visual Basic .NET, as well as the underlying functionality and architecture of the two systems."

Published: September 19, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 954

Blitz for PHP

l love Smarty, the PHP templating engine. It makes presentation development a lot simpler and more pleasant. However, there s always a guilt factor involved, because whenever you introduce an abstraction, you introduce processing overhead. Smarty is written in pure PHP, so there s extra processing post-parse, which will always slow things ...

Published: August 14, 2007 Geek Popularity Factor: 953

PHP Kitchen

PHPkitchen - Come See What's Cookin': Another good looking PHP site.

Published: July 23, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 953

Why PHP Does Not Suck

A pro-PHP Rant: Harry Fuecks gives us a wonderful, glorious rant on why PHP is good, no matter how many beat-downs it takes -- and it's been beat down a lot lately. He starts with the simplicity and reliability... There are smallish sites I own / run, built on PHP, ...

Published: February 21, 2006 Geek Popularity Factor: 952

PHP and COM: Quite Awesome These Days

I do some hairy Outlook and Exchange programming. Not by choice, but by force -- I have users that won't give up Outlook for any reason, and they want it to interoperate with our PHP-based database. I usually do my Outlook scripting in VBScript, since Outlook has a snazzy COM ...

Published: September 20, 2005 Geek Popularity Factor: 952

PHP 6

php.internals: PHP 6.0 Wishlist: Rasmus Lerdorf, the father of PHP, has started to speculate about what they're going to do with PHP 6. I am wondering if it may not be time to break some more stuff and do a bit of spring cleaning. It would mean many apps would ...

Published: August 16, 2005 Geek Popularity Factor: 949

Accessing Amazon with PHP and SOAP

ONLamp.com: A PHP Web Services Client: Handy tutorial on how to write a PHP client for the Amazon Web service using PEAR's SOAP module.

Published: July 14, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 945

PHP Reading List

Recommended PHP reading list: IBM has turned into a big supporter of PHP lately. Here's their "PHP Reading List," which includes things like development environments (they recommend Xampp which rules), articles, blogs, books, magazines, etc. A bunch of really good resources. Via Slashdot.

Published: March 16, 2006 Geek Popularity Factor: 944

PHP Frameworks Compared

Taking a look at ten different PHP frameworks: There are a lot of PHP frameworks floating around these days. I think the Ruby on Rails legacy (besides a ton of great apps) will be that it got everyone talking about frameworks again. This article compares ten PHP frameworks. Seagull seems ...

Published: March 21, 2006 Geek Popularity Factor: 942

Another PHP Debugging Extension

PHP Meet Mr. FireBug - PHP Debugging for Web 2.0: Another great little debugging extension for PHP. Like FirePHP, it has integration with FireBug, the greatest Firefox extension in recorded history. The real gem here is a great little screencast (QuickTime link) which shows how simple this thing is to ...

Published: March 7, 2007 Geek Popularity Factor: 942

PHP: The Camaro of Programming Languages

Back in the 1980s, when I was in high school, the reigning Chevy performance cars were the Camaro and the Corvette. They were almost the same, but worlds apart at the same time. Back then, you could get the Corvette and Camaro with near identical powertrains -- the 350 cid ...

Published: November 1, 2005 Geek Popularity Factor: 941

PHP Easter Egg

PHP's "doggie" easter egg: There's a series of Easter Eggs in PHP, based on a specific querystring argument and value. An apparent easter egg in some versions of PHP will display a picture of a dog when any PHP script is loaded with a particular query string. Also: Apparently the ...

Published: January 8, 2006 Geek Popularity Factor: 939

Great PHP Thumbnailer

PHP Thumbnailer Class: This is probably the best dynamic thumbnailer I've ever seen for PHP. Extremely well-planned and executed. Nothing special -- just a shout out for some good code.

Published: August 29, 2006 Geek Popularity Factor: 936

Where the PHP Name Came From

How the PHP acronym was reborn: Interesting post from one of the old-school PHP guys about ho the language came to be called PHP . There really wasn t much rhyme or reason to it. This is a quote from Rasmus back in 1998: I think I would prefer to just ...

Published: July 20, 2007 Geek Popularity Factor: 936

PHP Saturation Stats

Product News > Open-Source Scripting Language Becoming Dominant > November 6, 2003">Open-Source Scripting Language Becoming Dominant: I guess I dispute that PHP is "little-known," but this is still good news. "PHP, a little-known open-source scripting language, is becoming dominant on Web sites, according to Netcraft.com, the U.K. surveyor of ...

Published: November 7, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 935

PHP XML-RPC Vulnerability

PHP Blogging Apps Vulnerable to XML-RPC Exploits: This is very, very bad. Many popular PHP-based blogging, wiki and content management programs can be exploited through a security hole in the way PHP programs handle XML commands. The flaw allows an attacker to compromise a web server, and is found in ...

Published: July 5, 2005 Geek Popularity Factor: 935

Oracle and Zend: PHP Buddies?

Oracle and Zend announce general availability of Zend Core for Oracle: So, let's see, first Oracle buys a company responsible for a critical piece of MySQL, the database most commonly used with PHP. Now, Oracle and Zend -- the company behind PHP -- release a PHP platform tuned specifically for ...

Published: October 11, 2005 Geek Popularity Factor: 930

PHP 5.1 and Type Hinting

PHP: Type Hinting: PHP 5.1 was just released and has introduced type hinting. Is this the first step down the road to a more strongly typed language? PHP 5 introduces Type Hinting. Functions are now able to force parameters to be objects (by specifying the name of the class in ...

Published: November 25, 2005 Geek Popularity Factor: 930

Map Plotting with PHP

GIS Mapping with PHP: A good tutorial on plotting map points with PHP. "In this article we will start with the absolute basics plotting a single location on a pre-drawn map of the world."

Published: October 24, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 928

Practical PHP Programming

Practical PHP Programming: An entire book on PHP has been posted to the Web, free of charge. Apparently this book was edited and revised to become the O'Reilly book "PHP in a Nutshell." I paged through the book. It's quite comprehensive, and I learned about a bizarre function set I ...

Published: February 4, 2006 Geek Popularity Factor: 925

PHP Template Engines

A Complete List of PHP Template Engines? - SitePoint Community Forums: A good list of templating engines for PHP. "Conducting a small experiment. Been wondering "Just how many template engines does PHP have?". My guess is there's probably at least 50 Open Source template engines out there but was hoping ...

Published: August 16, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 925

Using PHP Includes for MT Search Results

A lot of people want to roll their own search with Movable Type. Us, for instance Gadgetopia has a two-tiered search system based on whether the search term appears in the title, keywords, or body of the entry (see this post for more information). Our search is done in ...

Published: July 4, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 924

Politics Takes a Toll on PHP

Lead PHP Developer Quits: Someone big in the PHP team has quit in apparent protest over the continuing Middle East conflict. In this IRC excerpt, Jani Taskinen (profanely) expresses disgust over Israeli actions, and quits because PHP is run by Zend, an Israeli company. Here's his goodbye email. A sobering ...

Published: July 28, 2006 Geek Popularity Factor: 922

Nice PHP/MySQL Rant

Why the light has gone out on LAMP: This guy eloquently tears up MySQL and PHP. IMO, MySQL once filled a niche (cheap data store) that today is better filled by SQLite but has moved out of it into a area where it doesn't compete nearly as well (that of ...

Published: June 6, 2006 Geek Popularity Factor: 922

PHP Programming Marathon

PHP Programming Marathon Sponsored by Zend: They're giving away an illuminated keybord, a copy of Zend studio, and a year of hosting, to say nothing of the geek cred that would go along with winning this. "The Marathon organizers will send a PHP problem [...] which must be solved using ...

Published: October 9, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 920

PHP Apps That Changed the World

Open-source PHP applications that changed the world: A nice roll-up of the most influential PHP apps of the last 10 years, from phpMyAdmin in 1998 to Magneto last year. From managing databases to shopping, writing blogs to sending emails. Ten years of passion, great software architectures, team work and revolutionary ...

Published: May 23, 2008 Geek Popularity Factor: 919

Is it the language that sucks? Or is it just you?

The discipline of PHP: This is over a year old, but it's a nice rant on people who complain that PHP makes for messy code. [...] PHP doesn't dictate a development methodology (unlike Zope or J2EE); so it's entirely up to the developer whether he wants to be sloppy, or ...

Published: February 20, 2006 Geek Popularity Factor: 918

PHP Savant

Savant Template Engine: A good look at Savant, which is a template engine for PHP. Sort of. Comparing Savant to Smarty is difficult. Yes they are both template engines, but Savant does not compile its templates. Nor does it have its own built in scripting syntax. It uses PHP. Savant ...

Published: July 27, 2005 Geek Popularity Factor: 915

Log4j Ported to PHP

log4php - log4j ported to PHP!: Log4j and Velocity were the only two things I liked about Java. Smarty can replace Velocity, and now Log4j is covered too. Log4php is a php port of Log4j, the most popular Java logging framework...Supports configuration through xml and properties file... Supports File, RollingFile, ...

Published: January 28, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 908

Dynamic PDF Creation with PHP

Generate PDFs with PHP: Here's a solid how-to about generate PDFs from PHP. As someone who learned how to do this with no guide other than a function library and a boatload of trial-and-error, I can tell you that this one is worth your time.

Published: October 26, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 906

Style Guide for PHP

PHP Coding Standard: I've been looking for a good PHP coding standards document beyond the PEAR standard which I thought was a little incomplete. This one, by Todd Hoff and Fredrik Kristiansen, is exhaustive and well thought-out. It's based on a common C++ standard from way back.

Published: June 3, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 906

Arguing for PHP Scalability

The PHP Scalability Myth: A well-reasoned and well-written argument for the scalability of PHP as opposed to Java. The theory is that even though Java may be faster to execute, J2EE has so many layers and abstractions that the end result is about the same. PHP is less architected, and ...

Published: October 15, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 906

date_sun* PHP Functions

PHP: date_sunrise - Manual: I don't know how closely you all are looking at the PHP 5 function libraries, but I stumbled on this function today (and its sibling). date_sunset() returns the sunset time for a given day (specified as a timestamp) and location. The latitude, longitude and zenith parameters ...

Published: January 26, 2005 Geek Popularity Factor: 905

PHP Data Objects

PDO - PHP Wiki: It took until version 5.1, but PHP is finally getting database abstraction. PDO provides a uniform data access interface, sporting advanced features such as prepared statements and bound parameters. PDO drivers are dynamically loadable and may be developed independently from the core, but still accessed using ...

Published: June 23, 2005 Geek Popularity Factor: 904

PHP: Free Software on Free Tools

Open Source: Open Source Scripting Made Easy: This is an article about PHP scripting tools that makes an important point: Commercial scripting languages have drawn success from powerful and widely used development tools: ASP has Visual Studio, ColdFusion has Macromedia's Dreamweaver, and JSP has a variety of tools from commercial ...

Published: May 17, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 904

PHP and Math

PHPMath.com: This is a pretty amazing site about using PHP to do advanced mathematics. With articles like "Real matrix vector products" and "Implement Bayesian inference using PHP, Part 2," I'm frankly a little scared. I'm glad someone does stuff like this, and I'm equally glad it's not me.

Published: May 5, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 903

PHP Optimization Tips

40 Tips for optimizing your php Code: This is a seemingly great list of PHP optimization tips. However, there s no context here or no discussion of why some of these techniques are supposedly faster. If a method can be static, declare it static. Speed improvement is by a factor of ...

Published: October 16, 2007 Geek Popularity Factor: 903

PDF PHP Class

R&OS: pdf class: Here's an insanely well-done PHP class for creating PDFs on the fly. Ridiculously simple. Written by a Kiwi, no less. We rule.

Published: March 19, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 903

PHP Development Platform

NuSphere phpED: Products: NuSphere: Here's a sharp-looking development package for PHP/MySQL. It includes an IDE, debugger, GUI for the database, etc. Nicely done for $299.

Published: August 4, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 902

PHP Scalability Critique

Experiences of Using PHP in Large Websites: This is a well-written, well-researched, but ultimately damning indictment of PHP's use in "large Web sites." The conclusion arrived at is that, in some circumstances at least, PHP's tendency to create more problems than it solves makes it an inappropriate choice. However, we ...

Published: July 17, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 902

PHP Coding Tips

ONLamp.com: Common Style Mistakes, Part 1: Very solid two-part article (second installment is here) on solid PHP coding style. Well done. I learned a thing or two.

Published: July 11, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 902

PHP Command Line Module

PEAR Console Classes: Here's a tutorial on a fascinating little PEAR module that facilitates using PHP from the command line. It has methods for rendering tables, displaying progress bars, and doing color formatting on ANSI compliant terminals, this giving you some flexibility when developing PHP command line apps. Fascinating what ...

Published: June 4, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 902

QCodo: Rails for PHP

Qcodo - PHP Development Framework: I think you're going to see that phrase a lot in the future: "Rails for [insert language here]." I had heard that Cake was "Rails for PHP," but after watching some demos, I think the QCodo guys have actually obtained that title. It is a ...

Published: December 8, 2005 Geek Popularity Factor: 902

PHP on a Mainframe

PHP Puts Mainframe Developers in Prime Time: PHP is apparently coming to a mainframe near you. The companies have not announced support for Zend Core for IBM on the z/OS operating system for the z/Series mainframe, but sources said that is the direction IBM is leaning toward. "Zend and IBM ...

Published: August 21, 2006 Geek Popularity Factor: 902

FirePHP

FirePHP - Firefox Extension for PHP Development: This is a really interesting project. It's a PHP extension that will let you send information along with the response from your PHP script which is only viewable using the awesome Firebug Firefox extension. So it's like printing debugging stuff to the screen ...

Published: February 16, 2007 Geek Popularity Factor: 902

Turck-MMCache

Deane and I have been playing with eZPublish a lot lately, and while I enjoy eZPublish's great API, and the ability to quickly crank out a content-managed website, I dislike the idea of all the server gymnastics required just to bring up a home page. eZPublish gets around a lot ...

Published: November 24, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 901

PHP Class Autoloading

PHP: Autoloading Objects: Something I always liked about COM was that you could register a DLL on the server and call it from code without having to reference a specific location -- it was just "out there" somewhere, and the server knew where to find it. With PHP4 and older, ...

Published: July 5, 2005 Geek Popularity Factor: 898

Friendster, PHP, Java, and Coding Platforms

Friendster goes PHP: This is good news. I hate to dis Java, but, well, I hate it. Always have. ...on Friday we launched a platform rearchitecture based on loose-coupling, web standards, and a move from JSP (via Tomcat) to PHP. The website doesn't look much different, but hopefully we can ...

Published: July 5, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 894

Hosting Certification

PHP Certification for Hosts?: All Web hosts are not created equal. On a couple of occasions, I've agreed to a hosting account only to find out the hard way that one piece or another of a full PHP install wasn't available. How many web hosts provide any more detail than ...

Published: May 23, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 877

What Makes Good Code?

Good and Bad PHP Code: While this is geared towards PHP, it s a good high-level discussion about what makes for good code in general. When interviewing a PHP developer candidate for a job at SitePoint, there is one question that I almost always ask, because their answer tells me so ...

Published: May 29, 2007 Geek Popularity Factor: 877

Sokkit

Sokkit - Install Apache and PHP on Windows: A while back, we mentioned FoxServ as a great way to get Apache, MySQL, and PHP (AMP) running on Windows. It was really nothing more than an installer that got all those pieces working together for you, but this was still a ...

Published: January 4, 2005 Geek Popularity Factor: 875

The Price of PHP Database Abstraction

PHP Database Functions vs. PEAR::DB vs. ADOdb (and PDO): Joseph Scott does some testing to remind us that while database abstraction layers are nice, there is a performance price to be paid -- sometimes an expensive one. If you need performance over supporting multiple databases and use of PEAR packages ...

Published: April 7, 2006 Geek Popularity Factor: 872

Smarty as a "Sub-Language"

I've been spending some time working with Smarty lately. This is ostensibly a "templating language" for PHP. But I think it goes beyond that. I assert that Smarty has become a sub-language all by itself. (Update: I thought of a much better name for this: "sand-boxed PHP." That's what Smarty ...

Published: March 21, 2005 Geek Popularity Factor: 870

Querystring Hacking with PHP

PHP and Standards: arg_separator.output: A few months ago, I went ballistic on querystring arguments. I rambled on about how I hate them and go to ridiculous lengths to avoid them. I think I'm somewhat insane in this respect. Well, I found out today that PHP can be set to parse ...

Published: June 3, 2005 Geek Popularity Factor: 869

What Web Language to Use with Oracle?

PHP vs. ASP.NET: Oracle published this article on the Oracle Technology Network. In it, they compare PHP and ASP.NET for use with Oracle. Their verdict was pretty simple: "Use PHP." ...we must consider not simply the price tag of the initial investment, which, in the case of PHP, is obviously ...

Published: April 4, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 867

PHP Marathon Winner

PHP Marathon: The PHP Marathon is over. Here was the problem: Build a working tutorial platform for beginner, intermediate, and advanced programmers. (This is very practical and will be used by dotGeek, with credit given to you, the almighty winner.) The overall platform should work a lot like Zend.com sub ...

Published: November 29, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 867

HTML2PHP

HTML 2 PHP - Convert your HTML Scripts to PHP: Here's a simple but handy little tool: drop a bunch of HTML into the input box and it will return it all surrounded by PHP print statements. So if you need to move an HTML block into a PHP code ...

Published: January 24, 2006 Geek Popularity Factor: 856

Auto_Prepend / Append Via Apache Directive

HTACCESS Wrappers with PHP: Really interesting technique of using Apache directives to have Apache send Web requests to PHP scripts. You can do this already via auto_prepend and auto_append files, but it's interesting to see someone do this via Apache directive rather than php.ini configuration. To start off, make a ...

Published: May 4, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 852

Protecting Content Editors From Themselves

Say you put together a nice, static site for a client. There's a lot of CSS, a fair amount of scripting (in whatever language we'll assume PHP here), a handful of images, and a lot of HTML. The client is going to manage the site with a WYSIWYG editor. ...

Published: September 21, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 846

Render Ring Tones with PHP

PHP Composer: I nominate this as the most uselessly cool programming tool I've ever seen. This class is meant to render images of the musical score of ring tones notes used in cellular phones, defined in the RTTL format. It parses the RTTL ring tones string to extract the information ...

Published: May 12, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 837

HTML Tidy with PHP5

Tidying up your HTML with PHP 5: The next version of PHP includes an extension for HTML Tidy, so you can have every HTML document perfectly formatted on its way out the door by applying HTML Tidy to the output buffer. When the Tidy extension is installed, it can be ...

Published: April 4, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 834

PHP Adoption, Measured in Book Sales

PHP Becoming Mainstream: I've always been fascinating by an analysis of book sales as an indicator of language adoption. My "how much shelf space is it getting at Barnes and Noble" test correctly predicted the ascendance of both Python and Ruby. As such, I find this interesting. We've noticed that ...

Published: April 10, 2007 Geek Popularity Factor: 832

The Command Line Is Your Friend

I maintain a web site that runs off of a content management system. The whole deal is database driven, and the content is identified by numeric ID's. I wanted to know which items of content are actually being used on the site so I could get rid of the ones ...

Published: March 4, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 827

Microsoft Ad for PHP Programmers

An interesting Google ad appeared on the site today. It may still be there: That's probably wise, to go after people "working" for the competition. I wonder what their CTR is and how they qualify a "successful conversion."

Published: April 7, 2005 Geek Popularity Factor: 821

PHP vs. Zope

Switching from PHP to Zope/Python: Here's a good, simple testimonial as to why one would use Zope over traditional scripting platforms. Zope is a beautifully integrated set of solutions to common web development problems. It works in a substantially different way to traditionally scripted web-applications. Think of it as a ...

Published: April 11, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 816

eZ Components

eZ components: New competition for Zend PHP Framework: eZ Systems, makers of the ultra-awesome CMS eZ Publish, are expanding their offerings to include PHP components for general (non-CMS) use. This article at SitePoint opines that this is in direct competition to what Zend and Oracle are trying to do. While ...

Published: November 27, 2005 Geek Popularity Factor: 810

PAMP is like LAMP, but for phones

PHP Apps on Mobile using PAMP: This looks really cool. If you’d like to work on your favorite PHP apps on your S60 phones, here’s PAMP - Personal Apache, MySQL and PHP. This is implemented on the Symbian OS using Open C, which is a set of industry-standard POSIX and ...

Published: March 14, 2008 Geek Popularity Factor: 809

Documentation Clutter

Why do so many sites insist on re-printing official documentation? In particular, why is the PHP and PEAR documentation available on hundreds of sites across the Net? I was looking for some information on PEAR's DB_DataObject abstraction layer. Searching Google for "DB_DataObject" gives you the PEAR documentation first, of course, ...

Published: June 12, 2005 Geek Popularity Factor: 809

What We're Up Against

I monitor the 404s on this site, and I found an interesting one today. It was an inbound request to: /phpgwapi/setup/tables_update.inc.php?appdir=[deleted] "phpgwapi" is an open source groupware toolkit. It must have a recorded exploit, because the deleted part was a URL that someone was trying to get phpgwapi to remotely ...

Published: October 17, 2006 Geek Popularity Factor: 805

PHPRunner

PHPRunner - PHP code generator for your MySQL database: A few weeks ago, I talked about ASPRunner, which is a code-generation engine to build ASP pages to manage ODBC databases. At the end of that post, I whined that I wanted something similar for PHP/MySQL. Well... PHPRunner creates set of ...

Published: December 23, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 804

Nested Functions in PHP

PHP: Advanced Functions: I stumbled in this phenomenon today by accident. I was going nuts trying to find a bug until I realized I had declared a function inside another function. I couldn't figure out why the parser didn't fail...when I realized that what I did is completely legal. When ...

Published: July 5, 2005 Geek Popularity Factor: 803

Bunny Regex

Introducing BunnyRegex: easy regular expressions, and mini-languages inside of PHP: Here's a great little regex library for PHP that uses a dead-simple syntax that someone should have thought of way, way before this. include("BunnyRegex.php"); $pattern = new BunnyRegex(); $pattern->bol() // ^ ->digit() // \d ->exactly(4) // {4} ->string('/') // / ...

Published: March 2, 2006 Geek Popularity Factor: 801

PHP4 is Officially Dead

PHP: PHP 4 ChangeLog: This, folks, is the last release of PHP4. It is officially dead at version 4.4.9. Long live PHP5.

Published: August 9, 2008 Geek Popularity Factor: 798

Code Generation Archives

Code Generation Network: A site devoted to automatic code generation. Full of articles, information, and links to tools that will write code for you. I was interested in janeBUILDER which promised: "janeBUILDER is a visual editor for PHP. JaneBUILDER allows you build complex PHP pages by dragging and dropping. The ...

Published: September 4, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 794

Wherefore Art Thou, Schema Validation?

One kink I ve recently noticed in a number of scripting languages geared towards producing web apps is the utter lack of support for XML Schema. I m surprised by this, since a good Schema validator can save a lot of code when used properly. For those who may not be familiar ...

Published: July 6, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 789

Go PHP5

GoPHP5.org - helping speed the transition to PHP 5.2: On the heels of our WordPress/PHP5 discussion yesterday and the PHP end-of-life announcement, this site is trying to get everyone to abandon PHP4 and break backwards compatibility. Therefore, the listed software projects have all agreed that effective February 5th, 2008, any ...

Published: July 24, 2007 Geek Popularity Factor: 786

HTML Tidy Presentation

Tidying up your HTML with PHP: This appears to be a PowerPoint converted to HTML, so the presentation is a little horrid, but the content is amazing. We've talked about HTML Tidy integration with PHP5 before, but this details here are fantastic. Yes, you know Tidy can make your HTML ...

Published: May 12, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 786

Book Sales as a Language Popularity Indicator

ASP.Net on a Roll: O'Reilly indicates that ASP 2.0 is the hot technology these days. Based on book sales data, it looks like ASP.Net 2.0 is on fire, with ASP-related book sales up 53% since the same period a year ago, versus PHP, down 3%, and JSP, down 25%. Of ...

Published: March 3, 2006 Geek Popularity Factor: 784

WordPress and PHP5

On PHP: Matt from WordPress fame gets all uppity on PHP5. Fast forward 3 more years and PHP 5 has been, from an adoption point of view, a complete flop. Most estimates place it in the single-digit percentages or at best the low teens, mostly gassed by marginal frameworks. Even ...

Published: July 23, 2007 Geek Popularity Factor: 783

Dynamically Generating CSS

CSS Colors: Take Control Using PHP: Good article on how to use PHP (or any scripting language, really) to generate your CSS. While many web sites use powerful programming environments to create HTML, these same tools are usually ignored when it comes to creating Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). This article ...

Published: August 25, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 782

eZ Components 1.0

eZ components 1.0 Release Candidate 1: The eZ Components that we discussed before have gone 1.0. eZ components is a collection of high quality independent building blocks for PHP application development that will both speed up development and reduce risks. An application can use one or more components effortlessly as ...

Published: January 17, 2006 Geek Popularity Factor: 780

A Call for Memorization

Someone (I don't know who), said "Half of intelligence is knowing the answer. The other half is knowing where to find the answer." In today's world, we all know how to find the answer. But has that made us less inclined to know the answer from memory? Google has just ...

Published: November 27, 2005 Geek Popularity Factor: 779

My Querystring Argument Neurosis

I have a serious Web development neurosis: I hate querystring arguments. You know the garbage after the page name in a URL? Like this: page.php?thisArgument=thisValue&andThisArgument=thisValue I hate them. I think they're ugly, unweidly, and expose too much of your application to the world. This is an utterly irrational thing, I ...

Published: March 19, 2005 Geek Popularity Factor: 777

Wasabi

Wasabi: In response to comments from his post yesterday (which we discussed), Joel has released information about Wasabi, which is a compiler they wrote so they code generate code for FogBugz in VBScript (for Windows) or PHP (for Linux). Fog Creek used to write in VBScript and automatically convert it ...

Published: September 2, 2006 Geek Popularity Factor: 776

Joyce Park Fired From Friendster

Fired for Blogging: This is making the rounds pretty fast this morning so we're going to pile on just for fun. Joyce Park, author of the PHP Bible and architect of Friendster's new PHP platform, was fired for blogging about it.

Published: August 31, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 766

"ASP" Does Not Equal "VBScript"

Note: This entry changed quite a bit in the 24 hours after it was published. I discovered a lot of stuff I'm ashamed to say I didn't know, I posted several updates to the end of the post, and I eventually changed the title. Quick survey: if you are a ...

Published: July 12, 2005 Geek Popularity Factor: 766

A Look at PHP5

PHP5: Coming Soon to a Web server Near You: A comprehensive look at the masterpiece that is PHP5. The author details all the changes with copious amounts of code to browse. Big changes are coming, including a complete revamp of XML handling that includes the ability to say, Make an ...

Published: July 28, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 763

The Zend Framework and Lucene

Roll Your Own Search Engine with ZendSearchLucene: The Zend Framework includes integration with Lucene, which is nice. Too many frameworks look right past full-text search. Zend_Search_Lucene is a php port of the Apache Lucene project, a full-text search engine framework. ZendSearchLucene promises a simple way to add search functionality to ...

Published: March 31, 2006 Geek Popularity Factor: 760

Is Perl Still Relevant?

Is Perl Still Relevant?: An interesting answer from Tim O'Reilly about whether or not he thinks Perl is still relevant. In terms of the competitive landscape among programming languages, in addition to PHP, Python has long been gaining on Perl. From about 1/6 the size of the Perl market when ...

Published: July 9, 2005 Geek Popularity Factor: 760

Turck MMCache

Turck MMCache for PHP: PHP is blindingly fast as it is, but this is a pre-compiler that makes it almost 5x times faster, according to their benchmarks. I've seen a fair amount of independent opinions that this is a fantastic tool. It uses my favorite pricing model: free.

Published: March 19, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 757

PHP5 Saturation

PHP 5 Adoption has Tipped!: The latest numbers from Zend on PHP5 adoption. In July over 74% of support tickets were by customers using PHP 5 (and remember we do support both versions). But is their analysis flawed? How accurately do support tickets indicate adoption, I wonder. Could it be ...

Published: July 17, 2006 Geek Popularity Factor: 749

Datejs

Datejs - A JavaScript Date Library: A fairly stunning Javascript date library that can parse human-readable date references ( last April 3 ) into datetime values. Comprehensive, yet simple, stealthy and fast. Datejs has passed all trials and is ready to strike. Datejs doesn t just parse strings, it slices them cleanly in ...

Published: June 3, 2008 Geek Popularity Factor: 747

Movable Type Email Review Mod

Movable Type doesn't have a content review system. You can write an entry and leave it in "Draft" status, but no one knows about it unless they go looking for it. In practice, this can be a pain. New authors to Gadgetopia are told to leave their first dozen or ...

Published: October 6, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 744

Someone Please Fire This Guy

Client-side PHP - The Daily WTF: I keep shaking my head, hoping this isn't actual code that someone wrote. Maybe if I refresh one more time, I'll find out it was just a bad dream. Gustavo Carvalho discovered what happens when XMLHttpRequest and the Eval() function in PHP are combined. ...

Published: April 13, 2006 Geek Popularity Factor: 744

AdSense Click Tracker

PHP Click Tracker - Track Ad Clicks Free: This little script claims to log what AdSense ads are being clicked on your site. It appears to put an event handler on clicks in the AdSense DIV, then looks for the words "go to" in the status bar when something is ...

Published: March 19, 2005 Geek Popularity Factor: 739

Microsoft Releases FastCGI for IIS

Microsoft's PHP initiative: This is interesting. Microsoft has recently released the second technical preview release of FastCGI for IIS, a new component for Microsoft's Web server platform. This release is available immediately for download to Windows Vista, IIS including IIS 6.0 in Windows 2003 Server and IIS 5.1 in ...

Published: April 9, 2007 Geek Popularity Factor: 736

CMS's Should Manage Content, Not Display It

I don't like content management systems that try to handle the displaying of content. I alluded to this last year, when I wrote: There are two sides to publishing Web content: First you create the content, store it, edit it, send it through workflow, get it approved, then stage it ...

Published: February 18, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 735

CMS Test-Drive

opensourceCMS: This site has several dozen installed CMSs for you to play with: "This site was created with one goal in mind. To give you the opportunity to 'try out' some of the best php/mysql based free and open source software systems in the world. You are welcome to be ...

Published: June 19, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 735

InfoCentral: Looking Back

InfoCentral: About five years ago, I wrote an application for my church to track people and families. I wrote about it here. I open-sourced it, and it got adopted by quite a few organizations. I went to check on it today, and I find that the site is still around, ...

Published: October 12, 2005 Geek Popularity Factor: 733

ogo

ogo: Home: I think this project is admirable and necessary, but I think they'll have a tough time getting any traction. I really wish them the best. The ogo project aims to clean up PHP, starting with fixing the inconsistent (and difficult to remember) function names. PHP needs clear naming ...

Published: December 7, 2006 Geek Popularity Factor: 732

No Named Parameters in PHP6

Minutes PHP Developers Meeting: This really depresses me. The functionality of named parameters was suggested. Named parameters allow you to "skip" certain parameters to functions. [...] Discussion: We don't see the real need for named parameters, as they seem to violate PHP's KISS principle. It also makes for messier code. ...

Published: March 10, 2006 Geek Popularity Factor: 728

Why Rails Helped Everyone

7 reasons I switched back to PHP after 2 years on Rails: For some some odd reason, this post is very obscene, but still interesting. This guy set out to re-write cdbaby.com in Rails. But at every step, it seemed our needs clashed with Rails’ preferences. (Like trying to turn ...

Published: September 23, 2007 Geek Popularity Factor: 728

Drupal Wins the Big Prize

Drupal Wins Overall 2007 Open Source CMS Award: Drupal wins it all. After three intense months of voting, Packt Publishing can today announce that Drupal has won the Overall 2007 Open Source CMS Award. With 18,000 votes on Packt’s website, coupled with the expert opinions from a panel of judges, ...

Published: November 2, 2007 Geek Popularity Factor: 726

I Believe in Presentation Logic

I believe in presentation logic, I really do. Call me a hack, but formatting logic mixed into your presentation code isn t necessarily a bad thing. I started Web development in traditional ASP. And I sucked at it, believe me. I wrote some of the most ridiculously convoluted apps that were ...

Published: August 23, 2007 Geek Popularity Factor: 725

Freetag

Freetag - an Open Source Tagging / Folksonomy module for PHP/MySQL applications: Found this via a trackback to my previous post about tagging. It's a ready-made API for implementing a tagging system in your app. Freetag is an easy tagging and folksonomy-enabled plugin for use with MySQL-PHP applications. It allows ...

Published: April 18, 2005 Geek Popularity Factor: 723

Photos 4.0

Alex King just released Photos 4.0 (formerly known as Gallery). It's a web-based photo database for storing, cataloging, and retrieving photos, but NOT for publishing web galleries. It can import photos by the folder or one at a time, and stores a thumbnail of each image. It's designed for "Anyone ...

Published: August 12, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 720

Which is the Fastest Web Language?

Fastest web language: Interesting thread over on Spolsky's forums on the perennial question: which Web language is the fastest? Some points that jumped out at me (all from different posters): Once you scale up to the point at which performance actually matters, the database is usually the bottleneck. Using efficient ...

Published: May 8, 2006 Geek Popularity Factor: 711

GroupOrg

GroupOrg - Features: Yesterday I mentioned that the PHPCollab project had forked. Today, I find out that my very own open source project, InfoCentral, which I handed off to someone else two years ago, has forked. There has been quite a bit of drama surrounding InfoCentral lately, with the guy ...

Published: August 20, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 708

BlueCloth: Markdown for Ruby

One thing keeping me from completely jumping ship from PHP to Rails is the absense of a Markdown equivalent. Oh, wait...

Published: August 7, 2005 Geek Popularity Factor: 699

FoxServ

FoxServ Project: I'm surprised we haven't talked about FoxServ here before. FoxServ is an Apache / mySQL / PHP installer package for Windows. Unlike NuShpere or PHPTriad, FoxServ features the latest version of all included pacakges, user defined configuration during installation, PHP as a module, PEAR, and the Zend Optimizer. ...

Published: June 30, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 699

SQL Injection Primer

Basic PHP Security[SQL INJECTION]: A quick look at the hack du jour: SQL injection attacks. A simple enough thing to defend against.

Published: January 20, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 698

Nvu Revisited

We've talked here before about Nvu -- the open-source WYSIWYG editor that wants to unseat FrontPage. I've played with it before, but -- despite my glowing reviews of the product -- I had never actually tried to build a site with it. However, this week, the preschool at my chuch ...

Published: November 3, 2005 Geek Popularity Factor: 696

Web Calendar Recommendation?

Much like my selfish use of this space to ask for a GMail invite, I'm now asking for a software recommendation. I'm building a Web site for our local Christian school, and we need a Web calendar. I'm not going to roll my own, so we're looking for open-source or ...

Published: September 16, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 696

InfoCentral Re-visited

InfoCentral: A log time ago (like, four years), I wrote a piece of software called InfoCentral. It's a PHP/MySQL app to manage church congregations. "InfoCentral is a church management database written in PHP, using MySQL as its database backend. It is currently the only viable Open Source package for this ...

Published: October 9, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 688

The WordPress Codebase

You Don't Have To Be Pretty To Be Successful: Joseph Scott has some commentary and a lot of good links on the state of the WordPress codebase. There are lots of good things about WP. It is fairly easy to install and from the user point of view it looks ...

Published: June 6, 2005 Geek Popularity Factor: 679

ASPRunner

Create ASP code for your database with ASPRunner: This is pretty good software. I downloaded the demo, walked through the wizard, and within 3 minutes (from download to finished interface) I had a complete set of pages to view, edit, add, print, search, and export a database table on my ...

Published: November 9, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 671

Web Development Cheat Sheets

Cheat Sheets: A nice set of cheat sheets for mod_rewrite, PHP, and CSS. Nicely done. (Warning: The CSS sheet was apparently written in a fantasy world where all browsers obey every last word of the spec. Real-world mileage will vary.)

Published: May 11, 2005 Geek Popularity Factor: 663

"Hi, I'm Rails..."

Rails Envy: These guys are making Apple-esque adds comparing Rails to everything else ( Hi, I m Rails and I m PHP ). They re pretty good, and more or less spot-on. The end of #2 is an absolute riot. Via CMSWatch.

Published: May 20, 2007 Geek Popularity Factor: 662

ImageMagick

ImageMagick - Convert, Edit, and Compose Images: I just want to give a little recognition to ImageMagick, which is a free image manipulation library that's been around for years. I downloaded a new version the other day, and I'm so impressed at what it can do. ImageMagickTM 6.0.2 is a ...

Published: June 18, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 660

Good Ruby/Rails Debate

The Ascendancy of Ruby: Someone made an innocent MetaFilter post about how much momentum Ruby has these days. The comments -- both pro-Ruby and otherwise -- have been heated and entertaining. Some good ones: Ruby seems to be caught up in some sort of blogger-positive-feedback-loop, its practically viral marketing. There's ...

Published: October 10, 2005 Geek Popularity Factor: 656

Do You Really Need a Degree?

Bill Gates recently went on a tour of colleges to encourage students to major in computer science. Apparently the number of declared computer science majors is declining, and Bill wants to shore up the numbers. I got to thinking about this, and I wonder if the plethora of really high-level ...

Published: March 1, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 654

What Makes a Scripting Language?

I have a friend who programs in .Net (I referred to him in a prior post). We'll call him "Trevor." Trevor and I have epic arguments about the superiority of our chosen platforms. I use open-source, "scripting" languages -- PHP and Ruby, mainly -- while Trevor develops in .Net. Trevor ...

Published: November 9, 2005 Geek Popularity Factor: 651

FogBugz On Demand

Announcing FogBugz On Demand: Fog Creek moves into the world of hosted software. I’m happy to announce that FogBugz On Demand is now available. This is a professionally-hosted version of FogBugz 5.0, previously only available as a download. In the end, $21 per user per month is not a phenomenal ...

Published: July 9, 2007 Geek Popularity Factor: 651

Mason

Mason HQ: Welcome to Mason: Ever wanted to use Perl without CGI? Ever wanted to just embed Perl in HTML like PHP or ASP? Anyone? Seriously....anyone? Mason is a powerful Perl-based web site development and delivery engine. With Mason you can embed Perl code in your HTML and construct pages ...

Published: February 15, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 648

Pretty Printer

PrettyPrinter.de, an online pretty printer for PHP, Java, C , C, Perl, JavaScript, CSS: Here's a nice little service that will clean up your semicolon-and-bracket-type code. It's well-done, but I'd like to see it sniff functions and alphabetize them. Via Simon in a comment to this post.

Published: February 8, 2005 Geek Popularity Factor: 648

Whois.sc

This handy little site joins sites like php.net and A9 in offering "functionality by URL." Enter "whois.sc/" and any domain name in your address bar, and you get the whois data like this. Eliminates a step from the normal pattern: enter the domain, wait for the page to load, ...

Published: March 30, 2005 Geek Popularity Factor: 646

Programming Language Popularity

Programming Language Popularity: Some decent analysis here of which programming language is the most popular, from several different perspectives, using public tools (Google and Craig's list). What I find funny is that PHP is relatively high on the popularity scales, but very low on the "paying job" scales. We're all ...

Published: September 24, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 645

WordPress

WordPress : Looks like a good blogging platform built on PHP / MySQL, which is just so much more hackable than the Perl / MySQL backend Movable Type uses. GPL, even. WordPress is a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. What a ...

Published: December 11, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 643

Dynamic Languages

Dynamic Tools for Dynamic Languages: After reading the "Programmers are Idiots" essay that Joe posted last week, I got to thinking about my situation. Am I actually a programmer? I came to the conclusion that no, I'm not I'm a scripter. I work predominantly on the Web, and while ...

Published: August 12, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 639

2006 Jolt Awards

CMP Media's Software Development Magazine Announces Finalists for the 16th Annual Jolt Product Excellence & Productivity Awards: The Jolt Awards for this year have been announced. Everything from the best in books to the best in databases to the best in frameworks. Rails made the list, so did the .Net ...

Published: January 20, 2006 Geek Popularity Factor: 637

Interview with a Comment Spammer

Interview with a link spammer: The economics will always drive spam. Until people stop buying and clicking, spam will keep coming. For that's what Sam does, pretty much all day long. [...] he says he can earn seven-figure sums doing this. Sam is a link spammer. He's unapologetic about it. ...

Published: January 31, 2005 Geek Popularity Factor: 636

Speaking of Image Formats

The lame UNISYS LZW patent has kept GIF support out of free software for some time. The patent has now expired worldwide, so the popular GD Graphics Library now has GIF support again, after a very long absence. gd 2.0.28 has been released. gd 2.0.28 restores support for reading and ...

Published: July 22, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 634

MySQL Backup

Mysql Backup: Here's a good-looking program and a relatively rare example of an open-source Windows program, Mysql Backup is a program to backup your mysql databases. You can backup multiple databases and or tables all saved to a SQL file. It also has an scheduler so you can backup your ...

Published: May 6, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 633

Blogsafe

I'm getting a lot of requests from "MagpieRSS" which is an RSS feed handler for PHP. In some cases, they're coming every 15 minutes. I checked the logs and found they were all coming from the same IP (65.61.162.22) which gives me "403 Forbidden" at a domain called "blogsafe.com" (the ...

Published: April 4, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 633

Smarty for Dreamweaver

SmartyDWT - A Smarty Dreamweaver Tags Extension: I love Smarty, and Dreamweaver is probably the most competent WYSIWYG editor around today. Put them both together, and: The extension adds a insert menu, a insert bar, code formating rules and icons for smarty tags that are visible in dreamweavers design view. ...

Published: May 5, 2005 Geek Popularity Factor: 633

TextPattern 1.6B

Textpattern: Dean Allen of Textism has finally released his open-source content management system. I downloaded and installed it and was quite impressed. It's more flexible than Movable Type and actually slips out of the blogging format quite a bit. It's closer to the metal than some of the other systems ...

Published: June 10, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 631

Password Protecting Movable Type

Password protect your blog: Good documentation on a long overdue hack. I've got a new project, let's call it Project X, and one of the things I needed to do was set up a password-protected blog on an existing installation of Movable Type. Everyone that has a user account in ...

Published: August 14, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 631

The Blind Leader

Web Development at WTFU: This is a good one. There's a twist at the end. Gabrielle's grasp of "documents" versus "programs" was just as painfully embarrassing. After editing an HTML document, she'd always say, "OK, I'm now saving my HTML program and will run it in Internet Explorer."