Tag: php

  • Bypassing Output Buffering in PHP

    I’ve been developing with PHP for over a decade and I just love it when I learn a new trick. Perhaps you are working on a command line script and want some feedback, but you’re output buffering to generate a fancy report (or something).  You can bypass the output buffering with this little trick Result:…

  • Oracle 10g: Using The Returning Clause With ADOdb

    Plymouth State University uses Oracle heavily due to its Student Information System of choice – SungardHE Banner. As such, I play around in Oracle a lot (sometimes a lot more than I’d like) and I occasionally find functionality that seems more cumbersome than it should. One such item is selecting the last inserted value on…

  • Plugin: Sexy Comments v1.4 Released!

    [[innerindex]] Introduction This has been a long time coming and I am happy to announce the release of Sexy Comments v1.4! With this version comes a lot of changes…so be sure to read the installation section! Along with simple optimizations and general restructure, the following features are now available: Feature List Ajax comment preview (new…

  • Firefox Search Plugin for PHP.net

    Dan, one of my co-workers, has been tooling around with PHP and easily plopped a PHP search extension into Internet Explorer 7. Well. I don’t like IE7 as much as Firefox and sadly there’s no super easy way to add a search plugin (if it doesn’t exist or you can’t find one…like in my case)…

  • The Ajax Experience: Plan of Attack

    The Ajax Experience is next Monday (although I arrive Sunday afternoon) through Wednesday and I’ve prepared my plan of attack: Monday 10:00am-11:30am: Leveraging Ajax for Enterprise Application Development – Conrad Damon 12:30pm-1:15pm: Keynote: Towards a Service-Oriented Applications Stack – Matt Quinn 1:30pm-3:00pm: Simplify Ajax development with Apache XAP – Bob Buffone 3:30pm-5:00pm: Ruining the User…

  • Remote JavaScripting Example – Part I

    [[innerindex]]At Plymouth State we work in a multi-server environment and often wish to display dynamic content from one server in an Ajax-like fashion on another server’s website. My co-worker, Zach Tirrell, and I have drummed up a solution that works to keep our layout and logic separate, while still serving our end users in a…

  • Learning What I Know

    I recently received an e-mail from one of my subscribers that asked a question. The answer may be useful to some so I’m placing it here. The original question It seems so interesting developing websites application these days, thanks to the web 2.0 phenomena. I can’t call myself a web developer or anything near that,…

  • Writing Your Server-Side Ajax Handler

    [[innerindex]]In my recent post on ‘Ajax; Templating; and the Separation of Layout and Logic,’ I refer to an Ajax Handler that sits server side to handle Ajax calls. Some elaboration is in order. As I have stated in the past, I’m a huge fan of Prototype AND I choose PHP as my language of choice…so…

  • Script.aculo.us Is My New Best Friend

    Ajax is great. DOM manipulation is sexy. I’m fairly new to the Ajax world having only developed with with it since July. MasterWish was my guinea pig and continues to be my playground for all things Web 2.0. Luckily, my manager Ken is pumped up about this whole Web 2.0/Ajax thing which has allowed me…