http://www.aquarionics.com/category/PHP en-gb Aquarion (nicholas@aquarionics.com) Site Admin (nicholas@aquarionics.com) Sun, 05 Oct 2008 00:13:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 http://www.aquarionics.com/journal/2008/03/18/Uh-oh http://www.aquarionics.com/article/name/Debugging_Ajax One of the problems with Ajax is that the server side of it becomes invisible. You send a request to the server with an ajax request object, and you can get output from the JS by firebug, or alert boxes, or whatever, but for the script running on the other side, there's no visible place for the output. There are many ways around it, but my current favourite is Growl. Growl is a... http://www.aquarionics.com/journal/2006/10/22/Textile For the last couple of hours, Aquarionics has been using Jim and Lissa’s TexilePHP system, which is a conversion to PHP of Brad Choate’s conversion to Movable Type of Dean Allen’s textile system (Once relased on its own, now part of Textpattern). It’s the same system as AqWiki uses for text formating, and I used the Jim and Lissa version because it supports multiple... http://www.aquarionics.com/journal/2006/08/16/T_Paamayim_Nekudotayim Lesson of the day, PHP calls the ”::” – used to identify an uninstantiated class function – a Paamayim Nekudotayim. A day when you learn something is a day not wasted. http://www.aquarionics.com/journal/2005/12/22/PHP_sessions_in_Debian_Sarge This is how debian Woody (and all sane systems) clean up PHP disk based (the default) sessions: Every x (default: 1000) requests, PHP will delete all outdated sessions. This is how Debian Sarge does it: Every half hour (at 9 and 39 past) run a script This script runs a second shell script that parses the PHP config file with a regex to get the value for how long sessions should... http://www.aquarionics.com/journal/2005/04/25/Handing_404s_over_to_Google This site once won an award from a perl web hackers site – now defunct – for the 404 system. The system was really simple. If you hit a 404 on this site it would apologise, then redirect you to a google search of Aquarionics for whatever you were looking for. This has worked for a while now, with the apologies getting ever more extravagant and the redirections being turned into... http://www.aquarionics.com/journal/2004/09/05/Instant_Cat_Pictures Since I’ve had my new camera-phone, I’ve been taking random shots occasionally. After a fairly brief stint using Gallery and moblog.co.uk I’ve done my usual thing of writing an Epistula Module to do it a) the way I want it, and b) within my own site. (I started off adapting the webcam module, but that’s bitrotted slightly and was never very good, so I rewrote a whole new... http://www.aquarionics.com/journal/2004/03/29/Errands_and_the_End_Of_PHP Got stuff done. In this case, the stuff was of a many and varied nature and involved: Sorting out bank accounts Joining Blockbuster Joining Library Posting Stuff But also: Resolving that I will never again begin a personal project written in PHP. Yesterday, you see, I managed to get PHP5 working on Atoll, my local server. It works fine, from a technical standpoint, it... http://www.aquarionics.com/journal/2004/02/06/Comment_as_mucked So, whilst other people have been attacked by comment spammers, I – in my Epistula fortified ivory tower – have recieved two, which I have then deleted. More of a problem for me is that Google has placed my review of Broken Sword III in the top of it’s rankings for that phrase, meaning I’ve had a couple of people saying how much it sucks. This full and frank exchange of... http://www.aquarionics.com/journal/2003/07/21/Wiki_wiki_wild%2C_wiki_wiki_wild_wild_web. In which Aquarion wikifies stuff http://www.aquarionics.com/journal/2003/07/09/Gzip_Compression_with_PHP In which Aquarion makes his site smaller http://www.aquarionics.com/journal/2003/06/09/Everyone_loves_Spam_Statistics In which Aquarion sings about lovely spam! wonderful spam spam spam spam, spam spam spam, lovely Spam! wonderful spam spam spam spam… http://www.aquarionics.com/journal/2003/05/22/MusicDB In which Aquarion announces some new software: MusicDB