Coding Tips and Tutorials

Buddypress: Preventing private message spam

Posted by admin on March 16, 2010 at 6:58 pm

A guide to preventing private message spam within BuddyPress

MySQL Slow Query Log with WAMP

Posted by admin on March 2, 2010 at 12:03 pm

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 [...]

Wordpress is shit

Posted by admin on September 30, 2009 at 6:20 pm

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.

Zend framework on 1and1 hosting.

Posted by admin on February 20, 2009 at 1:38 pm

How to get Zend Framework running on 1and1 hosting.

TinyMCE not loading in Zend Framework

Posted by admin on February 20, 2009 at 1:32 pm

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} [...]

Zend Framework multi page forms

Posted by admin on October 1, 2008 at 1:38 pm

I’ve started using Zend Framework for a project I’m under taking here at TradeDoubler. I’m building a new part of Searchware that is essentially standalone, so figured that this is a great oportunity to push for framework support. Better form validation, less scope for creating errors in trivial donkey work coding because it’s already done [...]