After reading an article some time ago entitled “40 Tips for optimizing your php Code” (and some others that are suspiciously similar), I decided to redo it, but properly this time with more accurate tips, providing references and citations for each and every one.
The result is this list of over 50 PHP optimisation tips…
Enjoy!
I wanted to prepare my wordpress powered blog for an influx of traffic from social media sites such as digg.com, in case one of my articles got big, so I decided to investigate what could be done to optimise the performance my blog.
This is the result…
Recently Matt Cutts posted an article on his blog about Recording an IRC channel on Linux/Ubuntu.
However, as you can see his article was all about using the irssi IRC client on Linux/Ubuntu.
I decided that some people may wish to know how to do it on Windows.
Here’s how…
Today I received a phone call from one of my clients who said that they had a BT engineer with them. OK. I thought, what’s going on here…
They then proceeded to ask me “what do we rank for on google?”, my response was “your company name, unless you request otherwise”.
They then went on to mentioned that “the man from BT” can get us listed “at the top” of the search engine for “our keywords”.
Naturally I reply to this with a sigh, but how they can they go around making such statements? It’s so unethical to make these kind of claims.
After reading their marketing bumph, I found out what they meant by “at the top”. What they are offering is the ability to list as the “sponsored links” in search engines, which appear “at the top”.
They requested my email address to send me “further details” through, below is the marketing email I was sent. I couldn’t wait to pull it apart.
This isn’t at all a review of the BT Web Clicks service, in fact i’ve not used it, it’s simply an analysis of their marketing blurb.
Back in 2004, I signed up my old site “hm2k.org” to Google AdSense as an attempt to raise funds for my work.
It’s content was mainly made up of what I was researching around that time, including a few controversial topics such as hacking, trojans and warez distribution. (Oh the joys of being under 18, or at least I was at time of original creation).
As a web developer my main tool is my text editor, which I use for pretty much EVERYTHING from coding HTML, to PHP to perl. A text editor is an essential part of my day-to-day life.
Meaning I need a text editor that I does what I want, the way I want it.
I’ve been using phpBBv2 for a long while now, on quite a few sites for one reason and another. I like phpBB because it’s simple to use, for both users and admin. Things like the “ego search” are features I wouldn’t want to live without.
phpBBv2 was great, things like the templates, and installing mods was much to be desired, however workarounds appeared and we got used to dealing with them.
Upon the announcement that phpBB3 was coming out I got excited. Now usually I wait until the first bug fix release comes out before I start using the product, however I wanted to start a new forum, so instead of installing phpBB2 I decided to try phpBB3
This is what I found…
One thing wordpress has always lacked is the ability to handle tabular data. This is not because it can’t handle it, after all it’s only HTML, but the problem is that by default the setup does NOT include tablecontrols in it’s TinyMCE setup.
Here’s what you need to do to get table controls added into WordPress’s TinyMCE…
So you’ve got a shop, or perhaps a new product range and you want to build a website so you can sell online.
What you need is some kind of web based eCommerce shopping cart system, the question is which?
I decided to build a short list of web based eCommerce shopping cart software out there.
The scenario is this, you have a client who wants an eCommerce solution, they are paying you, but not nearly enough, you’re doing this as more of a favour. You started to develop a solution for them, but felt their feedback wasn’t sufficient which would ultimately lead to missing things out, and it probably wasn’t worth it anyway. What is needed is a base platform to build upon.
The rules are this, it must be open source, and it must work out of the box.
Please remember, this is based purely on my options, by all means, take them on board, and form your own options.
I have a situation where there’s two scripts.
Both of these scripts require database access to the same database.