For a project I’ve been working on I needed to use preg_match quite a bit. But I got really tired of having to punch in…
Tag: php
Quick little snippet to redirect your visitors to another page after they leave a comment. Normally after leaving a comment in WordPress you’re sent back…
For a site I’m working on I needed a way to intercept a comment and block if a specific condition wasn’t met. This is what…
Is XAMPP slow?
I’ve used XAMPP for pretty much as long as I’ve been doing web development. It makes it trivial to get Apache, MySQL, and PHP set up.Since upgrading from Windows 7 to Windows 10 though I’ve noticed it was running much slower. I just assumed that XAMPP is slow. There was also an upgrade to XAMPP as part of that, although I don’t remember what versions.
The slowness was especially noticeable working on Moodle plugins. It was almost unusable, although that’s not too surprising with the 250-300 database tables that Moodle uses.
Googling brought a bunch of potential solutions
- Disable IPv6
- Edit hosts file to point 127.0.0.1 to localhost
- Exclude Apache, MySQL, and PHP from firewall
And all of these seemed to help just a little bit, but so little that it could have just been psychological.
For a project that I’m working on I needed a way to fade out an image before overlaying text on to it. Text I’ve done.…
I’ve been dealing with a slow WordPress site for a while. In fact, it’s a whole series of slow WordPress sites. This site, along with…
I’ve been using my unittest Moodle question type pretty much since the beginning of this school year. But a couple of things have been bothering me…
Over the summer I took a Moodle unit testing plugin and updated it so that it’ll use JUnit 4 and improved on the interface a…
Learned an important lesson today. I spent a good chunk of yesterday working on a new project. It’s a Moodle plugin that, when finished, will…
I’ve been playing around with Moodle plugins for the past few days and have kicked out a couple that are working, at least well enough…