Win tickets to the PHP UK conference
Zend are giving visitors to their site the change to win tickets to the PHP UK conference which is taking place at the end of February. Entering is free, but…
Creating and reading Excel spreadsheets
If you've ever needed to automatically read or generate Excel spreadsheets in PHP, there's a fantastic library called PHPExcel which will help you with these tasks. It supports Excel 2007…
WordPress 3.0.4 released
WordPress 3.0.4 has been released today and contains an important security update. Everyone is strongly advised to upgrade as soon as possible. More information about the vulnerability can be found…
PHP Akismet library
I've recently released a PHP library for Akismet, the comment spam detection service. There's already a plugin available for WordPress, but the integration is so tight that you can't easily…
Twenty character limit on WordPress custom post types
456 Berea Street has a new post on the fact that names of WordPress custom post types must be no longer than 20 characters, which may be useful to advanced…
WordPress stuck in maintenance mode
Earlier this afternoon, I attempted to upgrade one of my WordPress blogs using the automated option, rather than copying all the files across manually (my usual approach). After about five…
MySQL named locks
Until recently, I've only run PHP sites on single host setups, which has kept things reasonably simple. However, I've moved one project to a load balanced solution, which randomly sends…
WordPress end of life for PHP 4 and MySQL 4
The WordPress developers have announced that PHP 4 and MySQL 4 will no longer be supported as of WordPress 3.1, due for release later this year. Part of me is…
Special characters in passwords
Recently I moved our website at work from one hosting provider to another. As we have several instances of the site (testing, demo, live etc.), each with their own separate…
Hide PHP version from server headers
If you've ever examined the headers produced by a server running PHP, you may have seen this amongst them: X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.12 This little piece of information tells the world that…