URL prettification in 10 seconds flat
A word to all PHP, ASP, Python and Perl web-devs out there: http://somewhere.com/contact.php Is soooo 1990′s. URL prettification has always been seen to be the exclusive domain of larger frameworks but...
View ArticleTemplating in PHP in 10 seconds flat
One of the rather messy practices that the PHP documentation actually encourages is the practice of using include or require to correctly layout a web page. The PHP manual suggests that two pages be...
View ArticleMissing PHP Functions: array_totree()
?View Code PHParray_totree( $array, $seperator = "/" ) Splits a given array into a tree formed hash array. This is useful when a large array of strings needs splitting into a hierarchical array...
View ArticleMissing PHP Functions: getopts()
This function is intended as a complete replacement for the horribly crippled getopt() native PHP function and provide extended functionality. The use of this library means lots of great...
View ArticlePretty URLS in CodeIgniter
CodeIgniter has to be my favorite framework for PHP. The way it keeps out of your way while working to an MVC standard is something deserving of the highest praise. For reasons passing understanding...
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Autorun as Administrator in Vista
When asked how to automate the installation of software the other day I was a little dismayed that no-one seemed to have covered the topic of auto-running a batch file from a USB disk as an...
View ArticleZapping processes in Bash
The following is a handy little script I wrote which politely asks a collection of matching processes to exit. After a second the process is forcibly killed. This command is designed as a drop-in...
View ArticleTalking in tongues – UTF8 with CodeIgniter
PHP 4 & 5 unfortunately have major problems working with UTF8. Hopefully this will be solved with PHP6 and its fancy pants new rendering interface. Until then we have to make do and mend. First...
View ArticleError reporting with CodeIgniter
While CodeIgniter does come with a reasonable error logging tool its simple nature of just dumping a single line report to a file on a distant server does not seem too pro-active for my tastes. The...
View ArticleTrash with Bash
One of the regrettably unavoidable aspects of the Unix shell like environments is the impedance between what a user says and what a user means. While this is present in all computing environments the...
View ArticleEasy Apache VirtualHost config
Like most of the word I use Apache to serve up both my live and test websites. The downside to having a box for development though is the constant config of apache to host these sites, most of which...
View ArticleShuffling shell input
While the Fisher-Yates shuffle sounds like 1920′s dance move, it is the standard method for shuffling larger arrays of data. The below operates like a simple Unix filter taking an array of data...
View ArticleConverting Null
Simple shell script fix this week – convert all newlines to null characters. Since most Linux shells have a major problem with doing this in a sensible way, the following (on my box called simply ’0′)...
View ArticleInteractive file merging with Unison
After trying in vein to find decent documentation on the Merge functionality of Unison I eventually gave in and invested an hour or two trying out different Linux based merge programs in order to find...
View ArticleLast.FM submissions with Audacious
Some time ago the good folks behind my favorite media player Audacious decided to abandon in-built support for Last.FM submissions. The reasoning behind this seems to be that the Last.FM API was...
View ArticleSimple bash variable security with OpenSSL
Lets say you have a script that requires a number of variables to operate such as a database connection that requires a server, username and password. It’s usually a good idea to keep all this config...
View ArticleWeather or not
Ok, seriously. Can’t we master simple PHP classes like a sensible weather data retrieval library? I’ve tried a few solutions but all of them suck due to poor documentation (PHP Weather I’m looking at...
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