Posts Tagged ‘PHP’

March 31st, 2009

PHP is_numeric() vs is_int()

12 Comments, PHP, by Donncha.

Some lessons you don’t forget, but this one I did because it doesn’t come up very often.
Don’t use is_int()…

1800 seconds is such a long time, right?

It’s 30 minutes.
It’s 0.5 hours.
It’s 0.0208333333 days.
It’s also 5.70397764…

If you’re wondering why trackbacks and pings aren’t working on your blog then you might want to do what I…

November 15th, 2007

Donncha’s Thursday Links

No Comments, Donncha's Links, by Donncha.

I have to admit, I preferred how WP 2.2 displayed lots of draft posts on the edit and post pages….

While looking through this WordPress performance post I realised that eAccelerator might not be running properly on this blog. For…

August 18th, 2007

Notes when upgrading to PHP5

14 Comments, PHP, WordPress, apache, by Donncha.

I upgraded one of my servers to PHP5 this morning. Two things to watch out for:

The location of your…

A friend recently had a problem configuring a new server. He installed PHP, Apache, MySQL and phpMyAdmin but when he…

October 1st, 2006

Killing off PHP

12 Comments, PHP, WordPress, by Donncha.

Do you know why Apache processes get stuck and stop responding when serving pages on a Wordpress site?

I’ve seen this…

September 27th, 2006

Simple UTW Performance Boost

29 Comments, WordPress, by Donncha.

The Ultimate Tag Warrior plugin for WordPress is a great plugin. It does the job of handling tags rather well….

August 29th, 2006

Gzip Compression or No?

15 Comments, PHP, Web, apache, by Donncha.

mod_gzip, zlib.output_compression or whatever way you compress your web pages is a great way of reducing your network traffic costs…


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