PHP

From the article i wrote about getting uploadprogress extension working on MAMP 1.9. Someone left a comment asking how to get uploadprogress php extension working under MAMP 1.9 with PHP 5.3.

So i decided to recompile it and this one seems to work, at least it is now showing up in the phpinfo page for PHP 5.3

If you want to test it out, here it is: uploadprogress 1.0.1

INSTALL:
Unzip the file and place uploadprogress.so file into directory: /MAMP/bin/php5.3/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20090626/

Open up file in text editor: /MAMP/config/php5.3/php.ini

and add this line below:

extension=uploadprogress.so


to php.ini file where it shows the other extensions (around line 530 - 540)

At this stage initial, i haven't been able to test uploadprogress since Imagefield running Drupal 6.17 does not seem to work on PHP 5.3 (though i could be wrong?).

Please leave comment and let me know. read more »

Conditional-CSS allows you to write maintainable CSS with conditional logic to target specific CSS statements at both individual browsers and groups of browsers.

• Target CSS to any web-browser
• Streamline maintenance of your CSS files
• Optimise your CSS
• Work around those annoying little CSS bugs
• Automatic expansion and inclusion of @import statements
• It's free and open source!

Download Conditional-CSS

Anyone who has used a FTP program will know how cumbersome it can be to download or upload individual files. To save some time, here's an excellent tip on copying/archiving a whole site with FTP access, thanks to Khalid.

All that is required is to place a PHP script on your server and run the script via web browser. read more »

PHP's next edition, V6, includes new features and syntax improvements that will make it easier to use from an object-oriented standpoint. Other important features, such as Unicode support in many of the core functions, mean that PHP V6 is positioned for better international support and robustness.

IBM has written an interesting article on this.

[13th July 2007] Today it is exactly three years ago since PHP 5 has been released. In those three years it has seen many improvements over PHP 4. PHP 5 is fast, stable & production-ready and as PHP 6 is on the way, PHP 4 will be discontinued. read more »

The internet today is full of webmasters that are always updating, editing and even deleting web pages.

Lets say you are updating your website completely, changing the names of page's filenames (ex: file.html to file.php) and so on, this is great, you should stay updated! But what if you want to get rid of those old pages without having to worry about those who go to the old web page and see nothing? It doesnt end there either, other visitors do include major search engines such as MSN, Google and Yahoo! If people are finding your old pages when querying in these search engines, and they attempt to go to that page that has been deleted or moved, they will get a "404 File Not Found" Error! Now i know you dont want that, no webmaster wants that! read more »