Update: Paceville.com is now online to check out the interface go here.... Read More

The following functions are what I usually use to handle images in my projects. We’ve got reScaleImage which will resize and save an image, keeping aspect ratio.... Read More

I’m wrapping up the Joomla work here so it’s time to talk a bit about security. There are two main issues, sanitizing GET and POST and making sure people who are not supposed to call certain methods can’t do so. ... Read More

Update: Paceville.com is now online.... Read More

I’ve been doing some SOAP work lately (communicating with Java services by way of XML) and it’s time to recap how unbelievably hassle free and simple this is with the right tools.... Read More

A few weeks ago I was discussing a project with Charlie Madison of ProWebScape. He mentioned H2O, that he would rather use that than Smarty. So I checked it out and it seemed like the natural evolution in PHP templating.... Read More

I just got a mail from John Fraboni, asking about that MySQL wrapper I’m using in my Zend AMFPHP tutorial. ... Read More

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The above worked on Intrepid, below is an example that worked on Dapper. Here I have compiled as static libraries and put them in the /usr/local/lib dir:... Read More

In the Zend Client tutorial I touched upon a little bit of code I’ve written recently for retrieving poker player statistics from various backend affiliate sites.... Read More

Update: I just got a mail from Julien Iafrancesco:... Read More