Blog Posts for Tag: PHP
Web Experiments #1: Ajax Convo
Fri September 4, 2009
1) I’m learning object-oriented design, design patterns, object-oriented PHP, and object-oriented JavaScript right now. I wanted to do some experimenting with building systems using these concepts, so I came up with the idea of doing a series of “Web Experiments” where I take an idea for some kind of web application and make a [...]
Book Review: PHP Solutions
Mon August 31, 2009
In my quest to expand my knowledge of the web industry, I knew I needed to understand more PHP. PHP is one of the (if not the) most popular languages used on the web today. I had been exposed to it a little, and I have experience with other C-ish syntax languages, but I needed [...]
WordPress: Sort Posts by Multiple Fields
Tue July 21, 2009
I was recently creating a star-rating system for a client, and we were sorting the reviews (or “posts”) by the number of stars. The problem that came up was that with a 5 star system, and increments of half-stars, you will necessarily end up with many of the ratings being equal. We wanted [...]
Wordpress: Using a custom home page
Tue May 19, 2009
WordPress hs a simple checkbox in the Admin->Settings panel that lets you set a certain file to be the “static” home page instead of the default listing of the latest posts.
I’m going to show you how (and why) I did NOT use that feature to create my customized home page.
WordPress: Custom Links Display
Fri April 24, 2009
I’ve been working with WordPress for a couple of days now, and I’m thoroughly impressed by its elegant design. I’ve always been a fan of modular, extensible, customizable systems, and WordPress does not disappoint. The great thing about the architecture they’ve built is that if one level of control can’t do what you need, there [...]
