Tag Archives: php

Todays WTF Moment with CodeIgniter, MySQL and PHP

Posted on June 11, 2011 by Jonathan Sampson

As routine as an oddly-twitching finger sabotaging any attempt to use your mouse, strange things  may take place with your environment, tools, or code. Today I was working on setting up a very small project with CodeIgniter when I came … Continue reading →

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A Shorter Ternary Operator in PHP 5.3

Posted on January 8, 2011 by Jonathan Sampson

The ternary operator is simply awesome. It allows for some really beautiful if-else style variable assignments: $can_drink = ( $age <= 21 ) ? true : false ; This operator let’s you evaluate a condition, and return one of two … Continue reading →

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Quickly Adding Thumbnails to WordPress Archives

Posted on January 3, 2011 by Jonathan Sampson

Post thumbnails make archives look much more attractive in my personal opinion, yet they are not natively displayed in the otherwise-beautiful theme shipped with the latest version of WordPress, Twenty Ten. As is the case with most WordPress stuff, this … Continue reading →

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Install and Setup of Kohana 3, The

Posted on January 3, 2011 by Jonathan Sampson

Kohana is the wildly popular PHP Framework used by many developers all over. I’ve used it numerous times in the past on some rather different projects and found it to be pretty versatile and reliable over-all. One of my largest … Continue reading →

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