timthumb.php returns a 404 Error in WordPress

timthumb is a great little php script that helps create thumbnail images (http://code.google.com/p/timthumb). I’ve used it before, but recently I purchased a wordpress theme that used it, and it wasn’t working. I would get a 404 error when I tired to access the directly via a url like this: theDomain.com/wp-content/themes/theTheme/scripts/timthumb.php?src=/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/moose1.jpg&h=207&w=237&zc=1&q=80 After some digging around in [...]

Removing trailing comas with PHP

Dealing with trailing comas in lists is common problem for developers. I found the best way to handle this situation in PHP is with the following regular expression. $string = eregi_replace(’,$’, ”, $string); Before: string = “2, 6, 9,” After: string = “2, 6, 9″ Only the trailing coma will be stripped. If no coma [...]

Create WordPress Thumbnails Automatically

WordPress has the ability to allow post authors to assign custom fields to a post. This arbitrary extra information is known as meta-data. This meta-data can be used by theme authors to do some pretty cool things. The theme I am currently using allows for a custom field named “thumb”. If you create the “thumb” [...]

phpBB admin password manual reset

Today I ran into a situation where I had forgotten the password to my development instance of phpBB 3. I was stuck in a situation were I needed to reset the password. I had full admin access to the database, so changing it there wouldn’t be the problem. The real problem is that phpBB uses [...]

Modifying MimboPro to Add Paged Navigation To Category Pages

Recently I have been doing a lot of work with WordPress. I love WordPress. one of the things I like most about WordPress is the plugins and themes. I recently bought a copy of the MimboPro theme. Mimbo is clean and very professional. More of a CMS theme then a blogging theme, prefect for what [...]

WordPress 2.7 is almost here!

OMG OMG OMG! WordPress 2.7 is almost here. Here is a long list of the changes that are going to be in the latest release. I have been a huge wordpress fan for some years now. Its always treated me well. Its treated me so well that I have decided to move my main website, [...]

How I do layouts and views in CodeIgniter

I have been a loyal fan of the kick-ass php framework, codeIgniter, for some time now. A while back I made a post on how to improve the view handling of codeIgniter. I would like to retract that post. Through the comments on that post I found out about an undocumented parameter (as of version [...]

php sprintf + sql like

Sometimes I do my best programming when I’m tired. Don’t ask me why, I just do. It’s a skill I picked up in college. Being tired and producing good code wasn’t the case last night. I was trying to use the sprintf PHP function with a SQL “Like” statement. I made some dumb mistakes that [...]

Improving CodeIgniters View Handling

If you have ever worked with an MVC framework for web developent, you know that the “V” stands for “view”. At work, I program in coldfusion, and use the coldbox framework, and I love it. At home, I write PHP code, with the codeigniter framework. I love codeigniter, but I think that its biggest weakness [...]

LifeStreaming Is Simple As Pie

Its not secret, I love social networking, I cant get enough of it. I also love programming and anything internet related. I’m not sure how I came across it, but a PHP based, Object Oriented RSS caching tool named SimplePie caught my attention. Previously I had been using a tool called Last RSS, but I [...]

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