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WordPress eBook Export

This is a very very early development release of a plugin for WordPress to export a category as an eBook, currently only ePub. Some features don’t work and many are not implemented.

Anyway, use at your own risk.
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Git repository.

Posted January 28th, 2010 in PHP, Web, WordPress - 320 Comments »

Simple Cache Library for CodeIgniter

Note: This library has only been tested with the 1.7 branch of CodeIgniter. It has not been tested with CodeIgniter 2.0.

I wrote a simple caching library for CodeIgniter since database caching and page output caching were not suitable for my needs.

Usage:

class Test extends Controller {
 
	function main()
	{
 
		// load the library
		$this->load->library('simple_cache');
 
		// key is the name you have given to the cached data
		// will check if the item is cached
		if (!$this->simple_cache->is_cached('key'))
		{
			// not cached, do our things that need caching
			$data = array('print' => 'Hello World');
 
			// store in cache
			$this->simple_cache->cache_item('key', $data);
 
		} else {
			$data = $this->simple_cache->get_item('key');
		}
 
		$this->load->view('hello', $data);
	}
 
}

I don’t think I need to explain anymore? Maybe I will update with a better description later.

I’m releasing it under the GPLv3. Enjoy.

Download simple-cache.7z

Posted January 24th, 2010 in PHP, Web - 671 Comments »

Introduction to PHP: Installing PHP (Windows)

This tutorial will take you through the steps needed to install PHP on Microsoft Windows. I’m using Vista, but with minor changes, these instructions should also be valid for Windows XP and Windows 7 as well.

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Posted July 15th, 2009 in PHP, Tutorials - 858 Comments »

Introduction to PHP: Hello World + MySQL

This tutorial builds on the previous tutorial – Introduction to PHP: Hello World and as such, you should take that tutorial first if you have not already.

In this tutorial, we are going to take our previous Hello World script, and store the date in a database. We will then add the last access time to our original script.

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Posted June 30th, 2009 in PHP, Tutorials - 713 Comments »

Introduction to PHP: Hello World

This tutorial will introduce you to PHP with the customary Hello World script. You will be introduced to the echo language construct and the date() function. The goal of this tutorial is to show you how to output text, and display the current date.

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Posted June 18th, 2009 in PHP, Tutorials - 343 Comments »