‘Code’ Category Archive

Gracefully Degrading AJAX with PHP and jQuery

Aug 19

The intention here is to augment the form rather than force it into behavior we want.

 

Passing Email Addresses in URLs With CodeIgniter

Apr 22

CodeIgniter has some handy security features that sometimes get in the way. One such feature is URI scrubbing for disallowed characters. There are probably more secure ways to tell a script what email address to use than to pass it directly via URI. I’m using this for a simple intranet application to manage email recipientsRead the whole post.

 

Basic Cryptography With PHP – shift and unshift

Apr 10

I just started reading Dan Brown’s, “Digital Fortress” which is an excellent read so far. Early on in the novel, we are introduced to some very basic cryptography. Nothing like the FBI Cryptography Challenge, mind you. This is much simpler. So, what is the cypher? It’s simple. Just shift each letter of the “clear text”Read the whole post.

 

Twitter Tools Doesn’t Display Recent Tweets

Mar 11

Is Twitter Tools not working for you? Maybe you downloaded Twitter Tools through the WordPress UI? Perhaps the ‘activation’ didn’t work out properly and the local cache database table wasn’t created. At this point, the installation is broken. Don’t worry, it isn’t that hard to fix. All we have to do is set up theRead the whole post.