Monthly Archives: June 2011

PHP North West conference 2011

Posted on June 26, 2011 by Paul

Once again the PHP NW Conference is coming to Manchester in October, and the schedule is now online. All of the talks look interesting, although having realised that they run in three parallel sessions I’m not entirely sure that giving … Continue reading →

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Postcode validation and verification

Posted on June 18, 2011 by Paul

If you run a UK website which collects any sort of address information, you will no doubt have come across the potentially thorny subject of postcodes. Specifically, you will want to perform the two basic checks required for most user … Continue reading →

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Usernames in web applications

Posted on June 12, 2011 by Paul

Nelson Minar has an interesting post on username restrictions in web applications (via rc3.org). I agree that email addresses are better than usernames, as they can be remembered easily, rarely change and are usually unique to an individual. The only … Continue reading →

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Pub Gateway launched

Posted on June 4, 2011 by Paul

Last week I launched Pub Gateway, a directory of pubs in the British Isles which focuses on precise geographical data and no intrusive advertising. It’s written entirely in PHP with a MySQL backend, and utilises a number of existing libraries … Continue reading →

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