Fun with PHP Calendars: Part 1

Recently I've writted up some functions using the various date related functions built into PHP to create some calendars and other listings. Here's a method for displaying a list of weeks for a particular event.

Mar 18th 2010 15:58 // Web Design // No comments

Preventing comment spam

Comment spam is one of the great scourges of the internet, which is why there are so many measures available to counter it. Some are more effective than others, some introduce more problems than they fix. Here I outline a few of the techniques that seem to have worked on this particular blog.

Feb 24th 2010 16:19 // Web Design // 2 comments

Converting integers to monthnames in PHP

It's a new year and a whole twelve months of brand new dates, so what better than a quick and easy tutorial all about converting months from integers to proper month names?

Jan 4th 2010 08:51 // Web Design // No comments

New new blog

Having just rewritten the platform behind this blog (Wicked Words), and given that the average visitor won't notice any change whatsoever, I felt like highlighting some of the new improved features – that most of you won't notice...

Apr 18th 2009 14:29 // Web Design // No comments

PHP Development Environments

Aiming to get away from the bloat of Dreamweaver and the clunk of Zend Studio I’ve been exploring some alternative environments for my day-to-day PHP coding including NVu, Aptana IDE and PHP Designer.

Mar 24th 2009 15:43 // Web Design // No comments

Posting a multidimensional array

A brief tutorial (my first in fact) covering a simple method for posting a multidimensional array using an html form.

Oct 13th 2008 13:14 // Web Design // 3 comments