Tag: PHP

MediaWiki thumb.php and rewrite rules

May, last year, I created an empty draft for this post, because, around that time, I had gone through quite some effort before I got thumbnails for foreign file repos working just right. Now, I'm taking a dive into my MediaWiki working dirs in preparation of the creation of a separate development environment, so it's a good moment to rehash the past experience (almost as good as when I'd have done it right away). Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 4 days ago, on March 07, 2010, at 20:03 | No comments

www.stichting-ecosafe.org

Stichting EcoSafe is a Dutch foundation for the safe-keeping of the funds that are necessary for the maintenance of hardwood plantations. In July of 2006, together with Johan Ockels, I created a website for the Foundation. Johan was responsible for the organization of the whole process. This went very smooth and the website ended up being an emblem of simplicity and clarity. That's why I wanted to blog a bit about it now, even though there are a few things that I'd probably end up doing different if I were to start from scratch. [There's actually a disturbing number of things for which this is true, I'm coming to notice.] Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 6 months ago, on September 16, 2009, at 12:09 | No comments

PHP fgetcsv() behavior on empty lines

The PHP documentation for fgetcsv() states that A blank line in a CSV file will be returned as an array comprising a single null field, and will not be treated as an error. Here's a quick demonstration of this behavior. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 6 months ago, on September 05, 2009, at 10:09 | No comments

Enforcing Drupal URL aliases

I hate modules, especially core modules. I prefer code to be tightly integrated. I want it to work together. Is that too much to ask? In Drupal, most functionality has been stuffed in modules. There's a Locale module, a Content Translation module and a Path module. What's missing is a Working Together module. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 9 months ago, on June 10, 2009, at 14:06 | 12 comments

WordPress feed pagination

Wiebe uses his author Atom feed to generate a list of his blog posts here on his own website. WordPress feeds only display the latest 10 entries. He has written 16 so far. What he needs is a feed with all his entries. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 1 year ago, on February 16, 2009, at 23:02 | 1 comment

New theme

After upgrading to WordPress 2.5.x, I had to fall back on a stock theme because my old customization of the Sandbox theme no longer worked with the upgrade. But, then, it was time to redo my theme anyway. So here you're looking at the first version of my new theme. I might have let it stabilize some more before putting it on-line, but who cares? My reader maybe? Let's just hope he or she doesn't use IE. ;-) Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 2 years ago, on July 13, 2008, at 17:07 | 8 comments

Separate development/production environments for WordPress

When you're out Googling on how to maintain a separate development environment for a WordPress installation, you will only stumble across information about how to install all kinds of WAMPP packages. Well, I don't care about WAMP (or WAMPP). I want to be able to edit my theme, change my plugins, mess with my database locally and then deploy my changes when they're ready and well-tested (as if I ever...) Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 2 years ago, on July 12, 2008, at 01:07 | 2 comments

Apache’s ForceType directive overrides AddCharset directives

Yesterday, after uploading a refreshed www.sicirec.org, some character encoding issues popped up because I had converted the website's content from ISO-8859-1 (Latin 1) to UTF-8. (I wanted to be able to type and paste special characters from PuTTY into VIM without worrying about the particular encoding of each file.) Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 3 years ago, on February 26, 2007, at 23:02 | No comments