I recently applied for a new job as a web developer due to my 2012 plans involving moving to the city and working in a more corporate environment. After a technical interview over the phone mainly relating around PHP, MySQL and some general OO questions the interviewer finished by telling me more about the company. When he told me they specialise in Drupal development and use Doctrine for some in-house software and development I decided I better go do some research.

After looking around for quite sometime I was unable to find a Virtuemart plugin that would provide the functionality required.

I received the error "Cannot redeclare wpsc_register_post_types" while setting up a WordPress powered website to be used as a CMS. Everything was working locally but once I uploaded to the server I was continually getting the error around the wpsc_register_post_types function call. The first thing I tried was to deactivate the plugin which then caused an out of memory error when trying to allocate around 26mb of memory in wp-admin/menu.php.

At home we have quite a large collection of movies that have been collaborated over the years and are all stored on a central server. Every movie is stored in a unique folder along with some backdrop images and a xml file which stores information such as the movie title, description, production year and our own custom reviews. I wrote a C# application which allowed everybody to view all of this information easily and everything works well. But it didn't seem very helpful having a nice list of all the movies and their data unless you could view them in a newest to oldest order.

I recently reviewed the design of the dynamic menu used by Mandurah Web for navigation around their website. The decision to update the way the menu was generated fell down to a few reasons:

If you have ever developed an object orientated application with php 4 then you will know what an annoyance it can be including all the different class files, well with php 5 the developers have introduced a new method called __autoload().

Note: There are two underscores before the word autoload.

The autoload function is called every time we try to access a class or interface which has not yet been defined. This may be clearer with an example.

I recently began to develop an OO (Object Orientated) framework to base all of my client’s web sites on. While planning, I tried to write down as many problems that constantly occur within everyday web design and ways to solve them.

Here are a few of the problems I have crossed on more than one location.

Today as part of my study I was required to perform and oral presentation on a IT subject of my choice. With my interest and experience mainly been in web design I felt PHP and validation was a suitable area to aim with data validation been one of the most important aspects of any web page.

As a web developer PHP has always been top of my list when it comes to programming but just recently with my studies Java has been my main language and as I have come to love Java I looked into ways of using both PHP and Java together.

While searching the internet I found a few different solutions to this, you are able to recompile PHP with java support on both windows and Linux but the easiest solution I found for the windows operating system was Java Bridge, combined with WAMP (Windows Apache MySql and PHP) I was already to go in a matter of minutes.

If you have ever seen a map on a web site showing your location then you know what we are trying to achieve here. One of the easiest ways to do this is to use a data file provided by maxmind to look up the users IP address or a domain name / IP address the visitor entered, I will first explain the steps we need to take and the tools we will need and then a walkthrough of how to put it all together.

What you will need.