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php.ie slowly upgrading

It’s been a while since I wrote anything vaguely technical. I guess it’s because I like to write only when there’s something new to say, and usually only if I have some new code to give away.

No new code today, but I can describe the recent work on php.ie (I’m the secretary of the Irish [...]

jQuery 1.3 With PHP: chp7, image manipulation

I’ve submitted chapter 7 of jQuery 1.3 with PHP to Packt, which involves image manipulation. The editor I build in that chapter allows you to non-destructively manipulate an image in the most commonly needed ways – resize, rotate and crop.

The idea is that when you upload an image, it’s usually not yet right to include [...]

hosting multiple sites from the same CMS engine

I posted about webwork.ie’s free website engine a few days ago. In the comments, Mickster asked how he would go about doing it himself.

I haven’t studied how other engines do it, but here’s how I do it.

First off, some benefits to sharing the CMS across separate sites:

Reduced resource usage. Because a single PHP engine is [...]