A common need that arises when building WordPress templates is that of highlighting a menu item, when the page which represents that menu item (or any of its child pages) is being displayed. Even if a page has many pages beneath it — when we are viewing any of the child pages, we will want [...]
We love WordPress and we find the standard setup process to be very easy and elegant. Additionally, since we use WordPress as a CMS for the majority of our website builds, we have outlined and documented a set of “best practices” which we like to follow.
To follow the steps outlined in this tutorial, we will [...]
Eclipse PDT is a great solution for application developers who want to create code within an intelligent environment, with code assist, syntax coloring and awareness, PHP references, and more.
It is important for many developers to have a built-in debugger through which you can test and debug code locally. One solution is to use the Zend [...]
One of the very important considerations for customer-facing apps is the cleaning up of user input, before it goes into a database or interacts with other code within the network. This diminishes the options a malicious user has for entering destructive code.
The current platform which I am designing really needs a robust front-end “sanitizing” process [...]
For Immediate Release
San Francisco, California – February 19, 2009
Heaven Interactive is pleased to announce that it is now offering custom WordPress installations for publishers, marketers, and on-line retailers. These packages will allow clients to have custom-designed, fully-editable websites containing both static and dynamic web pages, such as blog and news content.
By utilizing the power of [...]
My SQL knowledge is fairly basic. I am an interactive designer, not a strict low-level coder, so I am looking for solutions that do not require cryptic or highly detailed SQL, when I want to access a DB system.
If you want to access the WP MySQL database tables, you can of course include the ‘wp-db.php’ [...]
I searched the web for around 30 minutes looking for a script that allowed me to use MCrypt with PHP and actually see the decoded string.
Check out this very thorough (well-written and commented) script. Works like a charm.