Posted February 26, 2010
It’s possible that you’re thinking, “Processing PHP in CSS? That’s plain stinks.,” just from reading the heading. It does stink, but so does maintaining two CSS files, updating your colour scheme manually (or even by sed), changing common dimensions, and all the other crap that goes with static files. Think about it this way – would you build a site out of many HTML files or would you use some kind of template system (like Pretty Smarties)? By now I hope you’re less sceptical. If you’re interested, please read on. (more…)
Posted January 19, 2010
Ran XAMPP, tried to access the development virtual host for Kids On The Rise ( http://localhost:99 ) and got this:
Warning: Unknown([PATH HERE]): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in Unknown on line 0
Some other Fatal error came up but I forgot to copy it, sorry.
The error message is unhelpful but it was pretty easy to fix. I just deleted the .htaccess file from the root and tested. It worked! After restoring a backup of the .htaccess file everything worked. Hooray!
Posted July 22, 2009
Most PHP programmers would have come across this old chestnut before:
Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by page.php line 42
This can happen when you try doing a HTTP redirect or send HTTP 404, as it can happen whenever you try to send headers once they’ve already been sent. When a user sees this, they are basically left high and dry, often on a blank page. The solution is simple:
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Posted February 10, 2008
In technology, there’s always the goal of making complex and difficult things more simple – this goal has brought about ‘clean URLs’. Clean URLs are website addresses that are easy for people (and also search engines) to read and understand. For example: An interesting article about the Bermuda Triangle might be at www.articles.com/article.php?id=23452 – That address tells us (and search engines) nothing about the article. Using a clean URL, the same article might be at www.articles.com/articles/bermuda-triangle - much easier, right? Well, here is how you can implement this on your website… (more…)
Posted December 22, 2007
While making the YouTube Music in MySpace tool, I coudln’t find a function that reads an input URL then makes an array with the GET variable names and values. I needed this to get the video id from the YouTube video URL – so I made it, and now I’m sharing it. (more…)
