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Showing Correct WordPress Domain on Each Server

Posted January 31st, 2010 (Updated 29 Oct 2011) in PHP

If you’re running WordPress on multiple servers, chances are you’ve come across an issue where once you’ve copied WordPress to the new domain, none of your scripts, styles or images are loading. One of the most common occurrences of this happening is running an installation on your local machine (localhost) and allowing people from an internet or network IP to view it. If you dig a little further by viewing page source you’ll notice the issue is caused by WordPress using your old domain (or localhost) for loading – resulting in extreme load on a single server or worse; a HTTP 404 error.

Using Querystrings in CodeIgniter

Posted January 31st, 2010 (Updated 29 Oct 2011) in PHP

By default, CodeIgniter only allows segment-based URLs, however it is also possible with a little fiddling to use querystrings and even to make the change application-wide or controller-specific.

Automatic MySQL Database Backups

Posted January 24th, 2010 (Updated 29 Oct 2011) in Database, Linux

UPDATE: This script has been superseded by my Cloud Database Backup script. It’s advised you use that instead.

If you’re a developer you should back up your data. Go ahead – do it, do it now. Okay, now that we’ve got that out of the way here’s a nice automated solution to backing up your MySQL databases and optionally uploading to Amazon S3 for added safety.

Passing Variables to a Required Script in PHP

Posted January 23rd, 2010 (Updated 29 Oct 2011) in PHP

Have you ever wanted to require a script in PHP without it inheriting all your current scripts’ variables? Did you instead want to pass different variables to it? With this nifty little function you’ll be able to do just that.

CodeIgniter with Multiple Sites

Posted January 21st, 2010 (Updated 29 Oct 2011) in PHP

CodeIgniter is an incredibly powerful and easy to use PHP Framework that makes developers’ lives alot easier. In its default configuration it only supports one site per installation – quickly result in thousands of files on your file server which can be a pain for all involved. With a little fiddling we can fix this.

Setting up Google Syntax Highlighter for WordPress [Updated 3 Jan 2011]

Posted January 19th, 2010 (Updated 22 May 2014) in PHP

WordPress is great. It allows you to quickly set up a blog with minimal effort. In the case of setting up the Google Syntax Highlighter, however, it ended up being quite a hassle due to WordPress’s WYSIWYG editor. This tutorial shows how to modify the editor to make Google Syntax Highlighter work as advertised.

Update Jan 3 2011 To allow pre tag in TinyMCE, we’re now modifying functions.php instead of a wordpress admin file so changes aren’t erased when WP is updated. See here for more details.

…and We’re Off!

Posted January 16th, 2010 (Updated 14 Oct 2013) in Uncategorized

It’s been several years since I started work as a web developer and finally I have a site of my own! This has been a long time coming and here’s hoping it won’t dent Australia’s reputation as an marvellous people too badly. I’ll be adding various tutorials to help spread my knowledge – check it […]