Tag Archives: PHP

How to know that your PHP is borked before your clients kill you

By Richard Bradshaw | Published: March 24, 2009
Maybe it’s just me, but every now and then I make a quick change to a PHP script, don’t bother checking it, then a few hours/days/months later either realise that I missed a vital semicolon, or mismatched a bracket. This started to get on my nerves, as now this has happened a couple of times [...]
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Using Texter to speed up web design/development

By Richard Bradshaw | Published: March 5, 2009
Lifehacker’s Texter let’s you define short macros that allow you type a little, and get a lot back. I’ve not used this before, but am constantly finding myself typing the same bits over and over and over, so this is a very neat and helpful little tool. Basically, you just define a command, then specify what [...]
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Enable better caching on your website using PHP

By Richard Bradshaw | Published: February 24, 2009
Just a quick snippet to help you tell useragents accessing your site that the content hasn’t changed. ?View Code PHPfunction caching_headers ($file, $timestamp) { $gmt_mtime = gmdate('r', $timestamp); header('ETag: "'.md5($timestamp.$file).'"');   if(isset($_SERVER['HTTP_IF_MODIFIED_SINCE']) || isset($_SERVER['HTTP_IF_NONE_MATCH'])) { if ($_SERVER['HTTP_IF_MODIFIED_SINCE'] == $gmt_mtime || str_replace('"', '', stripslashes($_SERVER['HTTP_IF_NONE_MATCH'])) == md5($timestamp.$file)) { header('HTTP/1.1 304 Not Modified'); exit(); } }   header('Last-Modified: '.$gmt_mtime); header('Cache-Control: public'); return 1; } Then call this in the top of your code like [...]
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Friendfeedifying your feeds

By Richard Bradshaw | Published: January 17, 2009
Although these tips are designed for feeds used with Friendfeed, the first two aren’t just for that – it’s just that Friendfeed exposes the extra functions in it’s interface. The third tip regarding SUP currently is only really relevant for Friendfeed.
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5 mistakes new web developers often make

By Richard Bradshaw | Published: June 29, 2008
Image via Wikipedia Having talked to some university students who had taken computer science/IT degrees, I was amazed by how little they seemed to know about making anything that’s secure or even remotely logical. The group I met with primarily had been taught PHP. Having looked at some sites they were designing I realised 5 things [...]
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