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WordPress: Using Really Simple Captcha

ShareAll WordPress plugin developers, you can integrate a security captcha image into your own WordPress plugin using the Really Simple Captcha plugin. It is a plugin in itself but it serves as an API and doesn’t have any purpose on its own without other plugins using it. This is an example of how to use [...]

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Turn off error reporting on your production site

ShareOn a production site, you would most likely want to hide all possible PHP errors, warnings and notices from your users for both usability, presentational and security purposes.

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WordPress.com Stats Stopped Working

ShareI recently integrated a blog and documentation base into the Tribulant.com website and noticed after a few days that my WordPress.com stats stopped working completely after switching the theme.

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PHP: Increase memory limit

ShareHave you ever received a fatal error on your server similar to the one below when you tried to execute a script? The fatal error shown below, indicates that your PHP configuration has a memory limit set and the script which you are executing is trying to allocate more memory than what is available for [...]

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PHP : Date difference in days

ShareYou might need to calculate the date difference in days using PHP. You can easily calculate the days difference by using something like the code below.

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PHP : Array to Object

ShareI wrote a quick and simple function which allows you to quickly convert arrays to objects. It allows you to change an array like this :

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PHP : Strip filename from a URL

ShareUsing PHP, you might need to strip the path from a URL, leaving behind just the filename at the end of the URL. You can achieve this with a regular expression pattern of course, but I have a much simpler solution. See the example code below.

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CakePHP : Form Radio Default Checked Value

ShareWith the CakePHP FormHelper, you can output a set or a list of radio button widgets.

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CakePHP Crontab

ShareDue to the way that CakePHP rewrites URL requests with its router, it might seem confusing to execute a Crontab to run a controller action. I will show you how to set up a cron dispatcher so that you can execute all your different controller action schedules on a single file and pass the controller [...]

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PHP : Cannot use a scalar value as an array

ShareI was working on a WordPress plugin today and came across the most disturbing PHP warning error which I have never seen before in all the time that I’ve worked with PHP. The warning error message was : Warning: Cannot use a scalar value as an array What caused this error was when I tried [...]

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