A while back I ran into a problem settings up a new version control system for our in-house PHP intranet. We have multiple developers working on the intranet at one time, and we needed to maintain independent working environments that we could use to test the overall effects of our code on the entire intranet [...]

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LDAP authentication through PHP can be quite handy. With methods such as this, authentication can be done against an LDAP user database. This is convenient if you are writing software that you would like to interface against an established user platform. I ran into this writing software for Northern Illinois University that had an established [...]

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It’s nice to be able to change the default thumbnail size for image uploads in Wordpress. I upload tons of big pictures and it’s nice if the thumbnail just fits within the content width. So here is an easy way to make this change in Wordpress. They have introduced the wp_thumbnail_max_side_length filter that can be [...]

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The Facebook API gives you the option of using FQL (Facebook Query Language) to retrieve data instead of using the built in API calls. I thought this was unnecessary until I needed a quick query to get me the list of a users friends with the current application added. After some research, I came across [...]

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QuoteShare is my new PHP Facebook application. I will be journaling several of my difficulties with this app up here on my blog. Facebook apps seem to always give me the weirdest problems available, and those are always good to share with others.
The app so far is very simple: it is scheduled to pull quotes [...]

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This mod is pretty easy. All it requires is a template change to add in the image location for the thumbnail API and a new cell in the table. Open up your link.tpl file for the phpLD theme you are using. Near the top of the template, right after the table and first row are [...]

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