PHP Arrays with the CachingIterator (peeking ahead)

Posted on December 17, 2011 by Steve

One of the most useful things you may need when iterating through an array is to know whether or not there is another element after the current and in some cases you’ll want to know what the next element is. It’s actually not that hard to do, thanks to the PHP CachingIterator. I have provided a sample snippet below showing what can be done with it.

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PHP Configurable CD-KEY Format Validation

Posted on December 16, 2011 by Steve

I’ve need this a few times, where I have to take input of a CD-KEY in a specific format and it needs to be checked to see if it’s in valid or not before proceeding. Normally – I would just write a small regular expression, but when using multiple formats and the length of the key needs to be configurable I wrote the following function.

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WordPress 3.3 Beta 1 released

Posted on October 11, 2011 by Steve

Straight in from the WordPress.org website…

“WordPress 3.3 is ready for beta testers.

As always, this is software still in development and we don’t recommend that you run it on a production site — set up a test site just to play with the new version. If you break it (find a bug), please report it, and if you’re a developer, try to help us fix it.

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Turn PHP classes in to a RESTful API with Restler

Posted on October 11, 2011 by Steve

The Restler packer is a RESTful API server framework that is written in PHP that aids your mobile / web / desktop applications. A framework, but with a difference – Restler is all here to bend and mend to your needs. While designing your application, RESTful server makes use of the Web’s well known architecture to your benefit, you will just need to simply declare the function as protected and add an authentication class.

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5 Useful WordPress template hacks

Posted on October 11, 2011 by Steve

Ever since I started using WordPress I’ve been learning some quick-neat tricks to get the functionality I want. Some useful WordPress ‘template hacks’ are below that I have used in the past, ranging from custom fields to printing posts from a certain category. If you have any requests just leave them in the comments.

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Apache htaccess Examples & Snippets

Posted on July 24, 2011 by Steve

Below is a collection of examples and snippets you can use inside Apaches htaccess files to modify behaviour of your website. Everything from altering the URL structure to disabling directory listing on your domain and blocking certain IP addresses.

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WPTweeter WordPress Plugin BETA

Posted on July 24, 2011 by Steve

WPTweeter is a WordPress plugin that I have developed to automatically update my Twitter feed when new content is posted or updated on my website. It’s a very basic plugin, with only a small amount of features (the ones I use) such as global hashtags and URL shortening.

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Useful jQuery Snippets

Posted on July 23, 2011 by Steve

Below is a collection of must-have jQuery Javascript snippets, from detecting browsers to auto-switching stylesheets. I’ve put together a collection of the most useful and interesting jQuery snippets, most of the code requires knowledge of Javascript to get started, as they’re only examples.

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