phpAdsNew

I’ve recently been playing with phpAdsNew, a PHP ad server system, for a work-related project, and I have to say, it’s a pretty solid piece of software. I’m very impressed. It installs quick and painlessly, and you can add advertisers and build ad campaigns in no time. It comes with very nice PDF documentation—user, administrator,… Continue reading phpAdsNew

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More PHP Errata

Again reading Larry Ullman’s PHP Advanced and finding it okay, but I came across another glaring error. On page 169, in the discussion about variable order, Ullman’s got the variable order entirely backwards. The out-of-the-box order for PHP variables is EGPCS (which refer to Environment, Get, Post, Cookie, and Server variables), meaning that PHP processes… Continue reading More PHP Errata

PHP Cruise Clarification

Back on the 11th I blogged about the PHP Cruise and quoted the price for 2 as $1199.99 plus $819.99. I wanted to clarify that I was talking about the Full Suite pricing, which is the most expensive (and would also be the nicest for traveling with my wife). Marco from php|architect commented to point… Continue reading PHP Cruise Clarification

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PHP Cruise

Here’s a first: php|architect is organizing a PHP cruise. I’d heard of the geek cruises before, but I certainly never expected to see one exclusively for PHP. Interesting and slightly off-kilter at the same time. Prices put it out of my reach, however. $1199.99 plus $819.99 is just more than I could afford. It might… Continue reading PHP Cruise

On Blogs

This is a bit about the blog software I wrote for this site. If you’re into the technical aspects of blogs, or PHP and MySQL, you’ll be interested in this. If not, you can safely skip it and not really miss out on anything. I’ve taken to calling my home-grown blog software blognutt (“blog +… Continue reading On Blogs

Some Items.

Item 1. My in-laws are in town, from today until Sunday. This always causes some tension around here, as my wife doesn’t get along very well with her parents, but the kids just love them, so all’s well. Plus, they’ll watch the kids one night so we can finally go see The Matrix Reloaded. Item… Continue reading Some Items.

Site Updates

I’ve been busy on this site the last few days with updates and revisions. To wit: Got the search feature working (finally). This is using MySQL’s built-in FULLTEXT indexing capabilities; it’s pretty slick, the first time I’ve played with it. It does natural language searches using frequency of keywords to produce relevancy scores… if you… Continue reading Site Updates

Errata

I was reading through PHP Advanced this evening and on page 63, came across something incorrect (regarding objects in PHP): PHP does not support multiple levels of inheritance, so you could not make a Grandchild class that extends a Child class that in itself is an extension of the Parent class. Actually, PHP does support… Continue reading Errata

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Moving right along…

A few random things. php|architect is offering a free issue of their new magazine. Anyone who’s into PHP should check this out. I found a neat site today called StoryMania. From their own description, they’re an “online community and marketplace for publishing, discovering, reviewing, buying and selling creative works — interact directly with authors and… Continue reading Moving right along…

Grrrrrr

Something in the server configuration running this site has changed, causing my PHP script to add blog entries to not work, and I can’t quite figure out why. (Incidentally, this is also why there’s a big gap since the last post.) My script is supposed to send an authentication header to the browser, for simple… Continue reading Grrrrrr

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