Category Archives: PHP

PHP has taken the web world by storm – here I discuss my tips and experiences with it, as well as the PHP Extension Library, PEAR.

Finally, A Great HTML Parser for PHP

Posted on December 21, 2011 by Matt

I’m blown away by the PHP Simple HTML DOM Parser. It’s like Beautiful Soup, the Python HTML/XML parser, but for PHP and has some nice jQuery-like syntax. It also seems just incredibly fast, but maybe that’s also because I’m better at … Continue reading →

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Trouble Installing PECL’s uploadprogress On OS X – MAMP?

Posted on March 22, 2011 by Matt

Note – this assumes you are running MAMP on a Mac. For this I’m using Leopard 10.5.8. All you want to do is get this installed so you can have fancy upload bars in your Drupal 7 installation. So you … Continue reading →

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Put Your 404 Page to Work with URL Splitting

Posted on March 10, 2011 by Matt

If you launch a new version of a site and the URL structure changes – you can certainly handle most of that with an htaccess file and a 301 Redirect command. But sometimes, as I’ve found at least, this isn’t … Continue reading →

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How to Fix Minify Error: !FAIL: environment : PHP/server does not auto-HTTP-encode content

Posted on January 25, 2011 by Matt

So you’ve setup PHP Minify and think you’re a good citizen for making your site zippier. You run the tests in min_unit_tests and all pass, except for the last one: !FAIL: environment : PHP/server does not auto-HTTP-encode content (1 of … Continue reading →

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Fix: Drupal Site Redirects to p3p0.com

Posted on November 17, 2010 by Matt

I recently helped a client fix a particularly sneaky site hack. While this pertains to Drupal – similar attacks have been reported in Joomla, or any other PHP based site. The fix here may help still – you’ll just need … Continue reading →

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Pear DB and “DB Error: already exists” On Insert

Posted on June 23, 2010 by Matt

Note that this post relates to using a MySQL database in conjunction with the PEAR DB module, or any other PEAR module that depends on DB – like DB_TABLE (which I’ve been enjoying). You might run into this error if … Continue reading →

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