Category Archives: Php development

Posts about my php development and things I have found useful as ive gone along.

MAMP v2.0+ and Apache Virtual Host Set Up

A colleague of mine was having some trouble setting up virtual host’s with his new installation of MAMP recently. So I decided to sit down …

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What does an Ampersand sign before a PHP function declaration mean?

Only found this out today, thought I would blog it just to be helpful. If you put an ampersand before your function name, the function …

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Php preg_match simple string examples

Due to ereg being deprecated in php 5.3.0 + I decided since it was at the core of one of the most heavily used functions …

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PHP Weighted Random Choice & Selection Remove / Replacement

For something I have been doing in a php project of late, I needed to weight an array of values and as I go round …

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Do’s and do nots of business websites

Earlier today I decided to have a little think about what makes a business website great and what, well, really doesn’t! The very first thing …

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Opening Up For Advice

Over the last year I’ve been constantly if not more than constantly trying to ask myself, are we doing things the right way? There are …

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PHP frameworks CodeIgniter, Zend & Symfony

Lately I have been considering PHP frameworks and using them to speed up development of small projects, whilst also considering the MVC (Model, View, Control) …

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My Personal Transition Of Design And Programming Practices

This week I’ve seen a real transition in my own personal way of thinking towards design and development. Particularly with how it relates to the …

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Compound interest php function

Something that will crop up at some point in your programming lifespan is a little bit of compound interest. Well its very easy to work …

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PHP Multiple Image Upload Script / User Image Upload – That actually works!

For quite a long time now ive been seeing lots of image upload scripts which boast to be able to upload multiple images at a …

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