Select lists in jQuery
Today I was working on a programming problem whereby I needed to populate a select element (rendered as a drop down list) with all the elements in a JSON object…
PHP Systems Developer at Pulsant
This job landed in my inbox from the uknot-jobs mailing list - reposting here in case it is of interest to anyone. Location: Reading or Edinburgh Salary: c£26,000 to £32,000…
Twitter Bootstrap for Zend_Form
I'm currently reading Easy PHP Websites with the Zend Framework and noticed that the default HTML produced by Zend_Form is rather odd and difficult to style. For some reason it uses the…
Part-time ICT officer at GMCVO
The Vacancy for part-time ICT Officer at GMCVO came across my desk this morning, and I felt it was worth posting here for the benefit of anyone who might be looking…
Top PHP security blunders
Whilst looking through my archive of technology blog posts, I came across this article on SitePoint: Top 7 PHP Security Blunders. Although written in 2005, most of the points made…
Using WordPress as a Content Management System
This is an archived post from my old technology blog, which I've imported here as it relates to PHP. It was originally published on 02/08/2008. Things To Consider When Using…
Using exec to reduce PHP memory use
As mentioned in a previous post, I've recently started to use a library called dompdf to convert HTML to PDF using PHP. One of the major problems I came across…
Creating PDF files in PHP with Smarty and dompdf
Back in 2010 I'd been looking for a way to generate PDF files dynamically on a Web site mainly to create files which can be printed or emailed and will…
Downloading files in Internet Explorer over SSL
There's a known problem with Internet Explorer when it tries to download files on a secure site (i.e. one with a https prefix). For some reason, IE tries to save…
UK Company Data library
As part of the work for Filing Reminders, I needed to fetch company data (specifically filing dates) from data.companieshouse.gov.uk. In order to do this, I wrote a small wrapper class…