I`ve stumbled upon this helpful developer`s tool and I decided to share to anyone of you who occasionally have to code while travelling. It is a free online IDE with a variety of useful features. The service is called ShiftEdit and is suitable for coding in PHP, Ruby, Python, Perl, HTML, CSS and JavaScript. You […]
Many people are having trouble comparing dates with PHP, so I decided to introduce one function which makes the process very easy. The function is called strtotime and it is used to convert regular dates(Ex.: 2012-08-26 20:26 ) to Unix/POSIX time. You can check the definition of Unix/POSIX time in WikiPedia. Now lets see the code: echo […]
This tutorials is not WordPress related, but it took me hours to figure that out, so I decided to share anyway. I was developing an android application with phonegap recently and at one point I noticed that the user`s rating(which I used .getJSON to obtain on page load) was from yestarday. I started debugging and […]
Recently, I was developing a registration form and found myself needing a html drop-down list of countries. Having to write all the <option>tags for about 204 countries is very annoying, so I decided to wrap it all up in a javascript function and share it with the rest of you, who might need it. My […]
Unlike our other posts in the blog this one is not a tutorial, but a warning to our less advanced developer readers. Most of the beginner developers use PHP_SELF in forms, like the example below. <form action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>" method="POST"> <h1>Sanitize your variables!</h1> Username: <input type="text"> Password: <input type="text"> </form> Some of you might […]
In this brief wordpress tutorial I`m going to cover creating a shortcode for banner insertion in your posts. This is a great solution, especially if you don`t want banners shown on all of your posts, or you want to place the banners in accordance to the articles/text of your blog post. If you`re not familiar […]
This wordpress tutorial is intended to help wordpress webmasters, who want to use an affiliate program(such as AdSense) to monetize their blogs traffic. I`ve been searching for an easy and clever way to add javascript banners for a while and in this short tutorial I`ll share the easiest way I`ve found. After you signup for […]
I`ve experimented with many VPS configurations in the last several months and I decided to write a wordpress tutorial about the fastest, and most optimized solution I`ve come up with. The server I`ll be using is Dual-Core, 3 GB RAM, Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit(Not the best OS solution I know but it easy to work with) […]
I was browsing through the net researching for a project today when I stumbled upon something very interesting, which I thought was worthy for wordpress tutorials. I`ve had to reset wordpress administrative password many times and so far I only knew one way of doing it(besides the automatic emailer): using mysql access. Turns out there […]
In the sites I support I`ve seen many problems with the case-sensitivity of permalinks. As you might now part of the wordpress permalink sanitization process is converting the permalink to lowercase. In order to deal with the endless errors in webmaster tools I needed to find a way to reroute the requests for the uppercase […]