It is a given that one needs to have a local server set up in order to develop and test PHP applications. Most people use Apache, either by installing Apache, PHP, and MySQL individually or by installing one of the LAMP, WAMP, or MAMP packages. Until recently, that was the route I took, using XAMPP Lite from Apache Friends. Read more...

There are a several of plugins available for Habari to deal with spam. Most people seem to prefer the ones that use outside services such as Aksimet and Defensio. I don't like relying on outside services so I rely on the simple spamchecker plugin that comes with Habari and the simple blacklist checker. The concept behind the simple blacklist plugin … Read more...

Recently Habari updated it's administrative code to use a new interface. The new interface relies much more heavily on javascript than the old one did, which allows it to pull off some pretty snifty tricks. One of these is on the entries page, where a list of all the posts you have written is displayed. Read more...

One of the things I've missed most in learning PHP is a debugger. A debugger is a necessity for productive work in any programming language. You need a debugger to step through code to understand how it works and is being called. You need a debugger to examine variables. Read more...