a dumbed down version of wpdb for sqlite
I’ve been working, gradually, on a project using an sqlite3 database (for its convenience) and found myself missing the clean…
PHP
Writing your own shell in php
I’ve always wanted to write my own simple shell in php. Call me a glutin for punishment, but it seems…
Bash Coding Convention ../
We use dirname() a lot in php to make relative paths work from multiple locations like so. The advantages are…
This deserves some link love
Andy bogged a piece of advice that I have him which I got from Barry… and if you want to…
Logging post data
Lets say you have a relatively complex php web application, like wordpress. You have it running under apache (which is…
It’s good for the server. It’s good for the soul.
ack (http://petdance.com/ack/), love it (thanks nikolay)
colorizing php cli scripts
It’s pretty common in most scripting languages which center around the command line (bash, perl, etc) to find information on…
so-you-wanna-see-an-image
We’ve been asked how we manage serving files from Amazons very cool S3 service at WordPress.com… This is how. (covering…
Throughput sensitive fputs/fwrite (in php)
I’d be glad for anyone who cares to look to read and comment on these functions. The idea is to…
PHP CLI Status Indicator
Most times when people write command line scripts they just let the output flow down the screen as a status…