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Archive for June, 2009
PHP Tip: Inline StdClass Object Creation
One of my pet peeves is that PHP does not have syntax to support inline StdClass object creation. This tip shows you how.
[Read More]MySQL Snippet: Pick a Daily Featured Item Automatically
Here is how to add a featured item on your website that changes automatically each day. For this example let’s assume you have an e-commerce site with a MySQL table called “products” that has a column called stock_count which contains the count of each product in stock. We want to feature products in stock, changing daily and also changing automatically if during the day the product goes out of stock.
[Read More]Code Snippet: Preprocessing Moveable Type import files for Wordpress
We’ve moved a couple of clients from older Moveable Type installations to Wordpress and each time Wordpress doesn’t handle the text paragraph formating from the Moveable Type import file. Here is a quick script we created to convert the BODY and EXTENDED BODY sections of the Moveable Type import file to HTML paragraph formatting.
[Read More]Sorry, you missed me!
I’m sitting at home today, waiting for the FedEx guy. This is a common story for me lately. I ordered a new iMac last week, and although the one-unit iMac appealed to my need for simplicity and fewer objects, it has arrived so far in three boxes, on two different days, through two different parcel carriers and three different shipping methods.
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