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Quick Fix for OpenX Redirect Loop

Posted on December 22nd, 2011 by Ryan

Last week I installed OpenX on my server to use for an upcoming project. After getting it installed and setup admin-side, I went and made sure the zones looked right on the project site. Chrome gave me an error that … Continue reading →

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WordPress recent posts as JSON

Posted on December 17th, 2011 by Ryan

For an update to one of my web projects I went looking for a way to get the recent posts as JSON instead of using the RSS feed. I personally find JSON much easier to deal with than RSS, so … Continue reading →

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days_ago function for PHP

Posted on December 17th, 2011 by Ryan

Can’t take credit for all of this, but I also don’t remember where the code that I started with came from. days_ago is a function that will take two dates and return a more human friendly version of dates. So … Continue reading →

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PHP function to get first n words from a string

Posted on December 17th, 2011 by Ryan

A handy little function for your bag of tricks. This PHP function will return a max number of words out of a string, or the whole string if it’s already shorter. This probably could be made shorter, but I was … Continue reading →

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fsockopen / fgets very slow in PHP

Posted on December 4th, 2011 by Ryan

I’ve been using a PHP class in a project that pulls a URL and then caches the result so it doesn’t have to get loaded again until it’s considered stale. Works pretty well, but every time it went out to … Continue reading →

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Posting to Twitter with PHP and OAuth class

Posted on October 30th, 2011 by Ryan

Needed a bit of an update on a font site I threw up a few years ago. Specifically I wanted to put a script together to tweet a random font each day. Should have been easy since I already had … Continue reading →

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PHP function to reset instance variables

Posted on March 20th, 2011 by Ryan

Quick snippet to reset all public instance variables inside a PHP class back to their original values. Can’t take credit for the code though. Found it on a website somewhere and have used it in pretty much every class I … Continue reading →

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Just finished up a couple of WordPress plugins

Posted on January 16th, 2011 by Ryan

Needed a break from a larger web app I’m working on and this weekend kicked out a couple of WordPress plugins that I’ve had on my idea file for a while now. The first is called rTwit and lets you … Continue reading →

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How to change the MySQL password in MAMP

Posted on October 2nd, 2010 by Ryan

Reinstalled MAMP last week because the version I was using didn’t have PHP 5.3 which I needed for a project I’m working on. Had to do some Googling to find the default password for MySQL and how to change. First, … Continue reading →

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Trimming all members of an array in PHP

Posted on September 5th, 2010 by Ryan

Needed a quick way to go through and trim leading and trailing spaces off of a string array in PHP. I’ve used array_walk to do it before, but with the addition of anonymous functions it makes it a little quicker … Continue reading →

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