Tag Archives: PHP
icanhazmyownicanhazip.com
Last night I was playing around with routing in my homelab. I wanted a quick way to verify that traffic was reaching a given machine over a given route, and the easiest way to do that, I figured, was to create an icanhazip.com-esque site to display my client machine’s IP address and verify that it […]
A PHP Router In 45 Lines
Like most things PHP, I have a love-hate relationship with URL routers. Having gotten my start in building “dynamic websites” back in the 90’s when CGI scripts were about the only option, I still prefer simplicity. CGI scripts, generally written in Perl, were slow and had to be started up for every request that came […]
Generate Accessors and Mutators Automatically with PDT
I’ve been using PDT, the PHP Development Tools IDE that’s built on top of Eclipse, for my PHP development for a few years now. I came to appreciate the power and flexibility of Eclipse as a Java IDE, so it only made sense to use PDT for my PHP coding. One thing that’s always frustrated […]
Discovering MODx
Many people who know me know that I am not a big fan of most web content management systmes (CMS). In general I have found that the hoops these systems make you jump through to set up and manage sites far outweighs the benefits they bring for easy content maintenance. I am not, however, a […]