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  • PHP Init Style Status Message

    Posted on Tuesday August 26th, 2008 at 08:00 in php, tutorials

    Yesterday I talked about created SUCCESS and FAILED status messages in a Bash script (Bash Script Init Style Status Message). Well, on occasion I use PHP for shell/system scripting and of course I thought it would be nice to incorporate my new status...

  • PHP Script To Monitor FTP Directory Changes

    Posted on Thursday June 5th, 2008 at 06:04 in php, tutorials, scripting, ftp

    I recently had the need to be able to monitor a directory on an FTP server for changes and to then be notified of those changes. I’ve been working a lot in PHP lately so I decided to use that to implement my script. FTP Access FTP (file transfe...

  • How Do I Get Meta Data From MySQL Using PHP?

    Posted on Tuesday May 20th, 2008 at 12:40 in php, MySQL, tutorials, database

    I know you’ve all asked that question before, right? Well maybe not, but I recently had the need to detect what the DATATYPE for arbitrary columns in arbitrary tables were inside a MySQL database using PHP. Turns out that it isn’t all tha...

  • Inserting A Picture Into Your WordPress RSS 2.0 Feed

    Posted on Tuesday April 15th, 2008 at 10:24 in php, rss, web development, tutorials

    I use NetVibes for my browser home page and RSS feed reader and I’ve noticed over time that some of the feeds that I subscribe to have pictures embedded within their feed summary. Why doesn’t my feed have a picture in it? I thought that t...

  • Looping Through Pages In WordPress

    Posted on Monday April 7th, 2008 at 09:41 in php, web development, tutorials

    In a recent article I outlined how to modify the output of the wp_list_pages() template function in WordPress. Later on, however, I found that having the <span> tags that I added in every single title was not desirable. So instead of using a ...

  • Writing A WordPress Filter To Modify Post/Page Titles

    Posted on Thursday April 3rd, 2008 at 08:34 in php, web development, tutorials

    I was recently working on a new WordPress theme when I had need to modify the title of pages before output. The style I was attempting to use involved wrapping <span> tags around the title (inside of the href tags). The wp_list_pages() functi...