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WordPress + TwinHelix ‘IEPNGFIX’

If you are having trouble getting the IE PNG FIX from TwinHelix to work in your WordPress theme, make sure that you set the correct path to the .htc file in your themes stylesheet. /* To fix IE 6 or less PNG issues */ img, div, span { behavior: url(wp-content/themes/your_theme_name/iepngfix.htc) } If the relative path [...]


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CodeIgniter Profiler: Globally Enable/Disable

Here is a quick tip for users of the CodeIgniter PHP Framework (and a reminder to myself). If you wish to enable or disable the profiler globally while developing your application (as opposed to changing the value in each seperate controller), you can do the following. 1. Open the config.php file in the application/config/ folder. [...]


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PHP Frameworks

Recently I’ve been toying with the idea of using a PHP framework to help with the development of my web sites. The problem is, I don’t know which one to choose Some of the frameworks I’ve been looking at include: Symfony CakePHP Zend Framework CodeIgniter Each has there own unique advantages, but what is the [...]


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Object Oriented Programming in PHP

Object Oriented Programming is the one area of PHP programming that I’m having difficulty grasping I’ve managed to come to terms with functions, regular expressions and the likes, but I just can’t seem to grasp the concept of methods, and especially stuff like passing by reference! Are there any tricks other programmers out there use? [...]


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Google Code: Web Authoring Statistics

In December 2005 we did an analysis of a sample of slightly over a billion documents, extracting information about popular class names, elements, attributes, and related metadata. Some interesting things I picked up from the study are: A whole slew of people are specifying the xml:lang attribute, which will have absolutely no effect (no HTML [...]


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