While listening to someone complain through twitter about their MySQL conf file, I came up with a cool idea: what if I created a PHP.ini creator that would suggest changes to your php.ini file as well as generate an updated version? (more…)

I’ve been thinking more and more about having unique ID’s - especially with working with larger datasets - and I thought it was high time that I investigated the UUID. (more…)

Simple enough question. Lets check out some test code: (more…)

Date formats - How time makes pretty (more…)

When troubleshooting a different problem the other day, I re-entered the world of eclipse include paths. For those of you who are not familiar, the eclipse include path is located as the last option of a eclipse PDT PHP project. (more…)

Great documentation site for SPL - check it out immediately!! (more…)

I’ve been wondering if I should be concerned about re-preparing a prepared statement when using PDO. Right now, I use code like this when preparing a statement: (more…)

You may remember the article I wrote about the observer pattern in php - but it lacked some of PHP’s advanced features. (more…)

As you probably remember, I have lots of interest in phishing techniques (I talked about one here, and preventing them here). I’ve noticed a new trend: a dual stage login form with a custom picture or passphrase. Users are to gain trust in the login page because their custom configured option is displayed. The more I started thinking about this, however, I kept seeing an issue - this still can be easily phished! I’m going... (more…)

I found a great article about the xdebug ini file - someone went through and added comments - much like the apache configuration files. Amazingly well written. (more…)