In a previous tutorial, I talked about Create a Local WordPress Installation Using Local by FlyWheel. Today we take that one step further and we will back up a live WordPress site to our local environment. This will give us a mirror of our live WordPress blog to do development on. Download and Install Local … Read more
Are you developing a WordPress site but want to make changes locally before applying them to your live site? Tired of breaking things in production? This tutorial will help you set up a local development environment for your WordPress site on your Mac or Windows desktop. We’ll also show you how to backup and import … Read more
This tutorial assumes you have set up a local development environment using Local by Flywheel. Next, we will make a change to our local environment and push that change to our production environment. If you use Flywheel’s hosting this is dead simple. However, we’re using a dedicated server with cPanel so the process is a … Read more
I ran into a task where I needed to find the differences with some data. Since I’ve not spent much time with ruby I decided to give it a shot. It was surprisingly simple to do what I needed to do in ruby. I’m not going to post the entire details right now, but wanted … Read more
Operating Systemsngrained in most of our day to day lives at this point. It’s hard for me to imagine a day that I do not touch the internet in some way. While most people utilize the internet every day, they do not know how to start their own website. This guide is aimed at teaching … Read more
There was a recent exploit found in a common file used to generate thumbnails. I found out about the exploit from Mark Maunder’s site. If you have a server running several wordpress blogs, like us, here is a way to fix all the exploits. If you don’t want to copy and paste skip to the … Read more
When it comes to hosting for your WordPress site there are a plethora of options out there. From traditional shared hosting, VPS, and dedicated servers to more advanced WordPress specific hosts. Choosing the best WordPress hosting can be a tough decision. Hopefully, we can make that decision easier for you with our review of Flywheel … Read more
Here’s a simple tip on how to parse a comma separated value or CSV file using ruby. Ruby has a standard library available that makes this task very simple. All we need to do is open a CSV file, read it, and parse it using the CSV parser that comes with ruby. Let’s say we … Read more
This tutorial is going to show you how to retrieve results from a database using PHP, then edit the row and save it back to the database. If you haven’t followed our other tutorials you might want to check out: Reading from a MySQL Database Using PHP and MySQLi Inserting Data Into a MySQL Database … Read more
This tutorial will show you how to access a mysql database using the PHP Data Objects interface, also known simply as PDO. One big advantage of using PDO versus other methods is the use of prepared statements which offers much better security than the mysql or mysqli libraries. Also PDO can connect to several different … Read more
Recently while working on a project, I found myself needed to parse several different types of files through the same mechanism (CSV, pipe delimited, XML, and more). I decided that it would be best to get each time of feed to a identical object that could then be run through the same methods regardless of the input type. This tutorial will walk you through using PHP and XPath to parse the values from an XML file and store them into array for later manipulation.
In on of our last tutorials we covered how to verify that a user’s email address is formatted correctly as well as verify that it goes to a valid domain name. That is great, but still not a great way to make sure a user actually owns or uses that e-mail address. This tutorial will walk you through one method of sending the user an e-mail upon signing up that gives them a link to activate their account.