God how I hate Webmin. No wonder everyone is using phpMyAdmin, everyone except my admin of course.... Read More

Since I’m currently working with advertising related stuff it might be a good thing to learn the whole geographic location by ip number thing. A good starting point is The IP-to-Country Handbook.... Read More

I’m in the process of replacing the horrible PHP code. And I’m using the beefed up version of the Zend Framework that I’ve built in this series of course! However, I’ve started to find some bugs and the fixes will be posted here.... Read More

I just realized that I’ve completely stopped using HTML Ajax. The framework has become completely superfluous for me now that I’m using jQuery’s $.post method.... Read More

Yesterday I had to make some changes in VirtueMart for Joomla 1.0.13. This codebase can be a little confusing sometimes. Believe it or not but this was the first time in my PHP-coding career that I felt the need to be able to simply dump all declared variables, not just the globals in $_REQUEST and so on. Perhaps a testament to how little time I’ve spent working on other people’s code, it’s not much.... Read More

As some of you know, I’ve got other things to do at the moment. The cms/community project is iced. Therefore I’ve created a Google project out of it.... Read More

The standard htmlentities() function will encode special characters so that they display OK in the browser. However, sometimes you might want to encode different languages to entities too. I just found a script that will do that in the form of an html encode application. The source is browsable but a little bit impenetrable so I fixed it up a little:... Read More

I recently did a rich interface to handle various configuration settings using jQuery and jQuery UI to be able to drag stuff around to control sorting. There are three possibilities:... Read More

Setting up default installations of Apache, PHP and PostgreSQL is really easy, I’m using a Gutsy setup and writing this in a terminal:... Read More

This piece covers creating a proper folder structure so that we can have a skin system. I’ve also created a folder for the admin section which is fully contained with it’s own controllers folder and so on. Another unrelated change that has happened since the last part is sub menu logic which we will also take a look at.... Read More