I don’t post to it any more, but I shall, at some point in future, consider resurrecting it.

A guide to preventing private message spam within BuddyPress

Although in hindsight this is DEAD easy, I’ve just had a bit of a hard time finding out how to do it, so I thought I’d make a quick post which will hopefully get indexed by Google and save some other folk the hard time I had. Thoughtful, eh.
So, to enable the slow query log [...]

Further to my last post about the quality of code in certain well known PHP projects, I just stumbled across this fantastically pointless finger spew.

function the_title($before = ”, $after = ”, $echo = true) {
$title = get_the_title();
if ( strlen($title) == 0 )
return;
$title = $before . $title . $after;
if ( $echo )
echo $title;
else
return $title;
}
How entirely pointless [...]

This post goes beyond my opinion of Wordpress though, I want it to highlight a more fundimental problem with PHP development. People just don’t seem to be very good at it, and it’s giving PHP a bad name.

How to get Zend Framework running on 1and1 hosting.

I was having a bit of a problem with TinyMCE not loading in Zend Framework (ZF). It turns out the .htaccess file was not configured correctly. It was redirecting .js to the index bootstrap and causing the page to fail to load.
The solution was the htaccess file as so…

Options -MultiViews
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /website
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} [...]

I awoke in the morning to find I was no longer 7th, but 1st. I was shocked. I had THE fastest growing blog on all of wordpress…

I decided to rebuild my home page with Zend Framework since it was originally done as little more than static pages.

I’m just giving some link love here since a friend of mine has just launched a new project.
Cardsmart.co.uk is a credit card comparison service and it went live about 3 minutes ago at the time of writing. It’s quite exciting to see the birth of a brand new company, it’s quite a refreshing change given [...]