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WordPress 2014/01/22 4 min read

Why WordPress should drop PHP 5.2

There's a recurring debate about WordPress and whether they should keep code compatible with PHP 5.2 or drop it and bump the requirements to a newer PHP version. Hey, I have an opinion on this. What's wrong with PHP 5.2? Nothing much, except PHP 5.2 was released in November 2006, and was maintained and developed till January 2011. This means…

PHP 2013/02/07 3 min read

I don’t speak Parseltongue, but I speak PHP

Here is a story about a guy who tried to speak a language he didn't know. Like Twilight, there are several chapters in that story, but don't worry, it's not about sissy hormone troubled teenagers trying to grasp the meaning of life.

Code 2012/11/21 2 min read

Checking Domain Blacklists from Spamhaus, SURBL and URIBL in PHP

I've been speaking lately with folks from Spamhaus about anti spam measure in YOURLS and a YOURLS plugin for this. Currently the #1 result in Google for "spamhaus PHP" is a post on Lockergnome which gets it totally wrong and provides a script that does not work, so here is a PHP script that does work. This script checks a…

Code 2012/10/17 1 min read

Generate Random Pronouceable Words

Ho haï, blog, long time no see! :) I was checking stuff on various URL shorteners and noticed is.gd has one interesting feature: you can generate short URLs that are "pronounceable" (no "vgfhgt"). This is a great little touch: a random but pronounceable word will be more memorable and the probability for typos is reduced, which makes it a killer…

Code 2009/04/29 1 min read

HTTP Authentication on PHP as CGI (like Dreamhost)

Using PHP's HTTP Authentication is a simple way to protect scripts behind a login/password prompt. There's one little problem: it's supposed to work only on PHP as an Apache module, not the CGI version. It took me a while, hair pulling and some googling to get a basic HTTP Auth system working on Dreamhost's PHP as CGI so for my…

Code 2008/04/27 1 min read

Javascript basename() and dirname()

For my next stuff I needed the Javascript equivalents of PHP functions basename() and dirname(). Nothing genius: < View plain text > javascript function basename(path) { return path.replace(/\\/g,'/').replace( /.*\//, " ); } function dirname(path) { return path.replace(/\\/g,'/').replace(/\/[^\/]*$/, ");; } It obviously supports paths like /home/ozh/stuff.php, http://site.com/file.ext or double backslashed Win32 paths such as C:\\dir\\document.txt. Edit:…

WordPress 2008/03/28 3 min read

WordPress 2.5 ShortCodes API Overview

WordPress 2.5 comes with a very handy API that plugin authors should love: shortcodes, ie. BBcode-like tags, that are parsed when found in post contents. The API is very easy to use, and well done enough that it's relatively foolproof. Shortcode types The API allows for all the possible combinations and forms you'd think of: selfclosing or open tags, attributes…

WordPress 2008/02/11 1 min read

WordPress Snippet: Complete List of Posts

< View plain text > php query_posts($query_string.'posts_per_page=-1'); while(have_posts()) { the_post(); the_time(); the_title(); } This will display the time and title for all your posts. This could result in a very long page, and a more usable way of doing it would be to change the posts_per_page parameter, and…

Headbanging link of the day: MetalAd creates a skyscraper-like banner from your heavy metal tastes (as stored by Last.fm). (my metal ad for instance). The generating PHP script is even open-sourced.

2007/08/28 8h50 #

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_DEC, expecting T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM (like here for instance) Seriously, what were PHP coders on, when they decided to implement this kind of error message?? For the record, it just means you're missing a :: somewhere.

2007/06/22 23h32 #