As a web developer for many years, one of the most important things I focus on is accessibility. It is crucial for your visitors to be able to access your website regardless of what device they are using. Before mobile devices, the big question with compatibility involved browsers – in particular, Internet Explorer. Eventually, I…
In the past it was always a bit challenging to get WIMP installed, at least for me it was. I ended up using installers for PHP and even then which version would I use, fast cgi or that other one (can’t seem to remember the name, it’s been a while). Recently, I had to create…
I’ve been checking out Python and Django and I’m impressed at what it can do. It’s efficient and has more things built-in compared to PHP and CodeIgniter. Unfortunately, I ran into some issues when installing the python-mysqldb. Without it, I can’t connect to MySQL – I could do sqlite3 fine though. I have existing projects…
I’ve been getting more curious about MongoDB. The problem is I’ve been struggling trying to create a development environment. I’ve tried OSX, Ubuntu, and Windows. I always get stuck at a step. I think I found the right recipe. First, I’m running Windows 7 Professional 64 bit virtually. You don’t have to run Windows virtuall….
I was having a few problems creating a page with ampersands in the URL. This is a quick fix if it’s part of the HTML by using & but if it’s part of a javascript, it will take the code literally. For example, let’s say you have a javascript function that sends you to a…
This will show you how to create a CakePHP environment in MAMP on OS X. Here list of softwares used and their version. OS X Leopard or Snow Leopard MAMP version 1.91 (using PHP5.2.x) CakePHP 1.2.8 You shouldn’t have to use MAMP 1.9.1. I have it working on version 1.8.x. You will need to change…
I’ve been developing web sites for almost 10 years now. I’m still in search of a way to develop faster. I find myself doing things over and over again. I use PHP as the programming language to develop the web apps with MySQL database. I started to look for different frameworks – but most use…
I’m using the jQuery plugin from http://bassistance.de/jquery-plugins/jquery-plugin-validation. The plugin is greate. I did run into a problem with arrays. Say your form has a group of checkboxes or radio buttons and their names are checkbox or radio. To have them be in the same group, their names have to be the same and to process…
I’ve been trying out the demo for Artisteer 2 and it’s great. Creating templates for popular CMS softwares such as WordPress, Joomla, and Drupal have never been easier. I’ve done some playing around with manually creating a WordPress template and it’s not too bad. The WordPress documentation is fairly easy to follow. But doing it…
I’ve been searching for a way to create a wrapper page within WordPress without having to install a plugin. I browsed the WordPress files and found wp-blog-header.php in the root install directory. It’s really simple. <?php require_once(‘wp-blog-header.php’); get_header(); // this is the content layout based on the current theme you are using get_sidebar(); get_footer(); ?>…