Archive for category: Tutorials

Use Layouts & Sub Templates

16 Apr
April 16, 2013

For the context of this article, I’ll be using Zend Framework 1 for usage examples (Why am I using Zend Framework 1 you ask? Because this post is based on an email I sent to my coworkers the other day who use Zend Framework 1). However, all major frameworks support something like this (Symfony2, Zend [...]

WordPress Walker Classes

01 Aug
August 1, 2010

Walkers are used in WordPress to recursively handle data such as menus. As defined in the WordPress codex The walker class encapsulates the basic functionality necessary to output HTML representing WordPress objects with a tree structure. For instance pages and categories are the two types of objects that the WordPress 2.2 code uses the walker [...]

Easy PayPal PDT

08 Jun
June 8, 2010

Many of you should be familiar with PayPal and the shopping cart services they offer, namely PDT and IPN. I’ve already dealt with IPN in this post, so now it’s time for PDT. PDT allows visitors to return to your site after a transaction and see the details of what they just purchased. Simply create [...]

LAMP Server Setup Pt. 5 – Installing MySQL

18 May
May 18, 2010

I just realized when setting up a second CentOS 5.4 server that MySQL is required for PHP MySQL support (duh) and I didn’t include it in my tutorial so here it is. As an alternative, I’ll be posting a PostgreSQL guide as well, as some users may prefer that (I’ll be using it for my [...]

Courier IMAP SSL Certificates

13 May
May 13, 2010

Tonight, I logged into my email only to discover my SSL certificate had expired! So I logged into SSH to create a new one, only to find out how hard it is! So now that I’m done and it’s working all nice and proper, I’d like to share my knowledge. I’ve obtained parts of this [...]