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Tag Archives: PHP
RSS aggregation for PHP
I have written a mechanism in PHP that can take several RSS feeds, filter and manipulate them, and re-display them in either RSS or straight HTML. This can also manipulate content (through the preg_replace function, and configurable per-feed), such as removing names from Twitter entries. I’m using it on loopyapp.com to show all relevant items [...]
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Links for November 13th through November 17th
Links for November 13th through November 17th: How to Price Your iPhone App out of Existence Write-up on the dangers of pricing an iPhone app too low, and the need to 'correct' the market Open Radar Community-driven, open Apple bug reports Free Australian Postcode location data "…Both the original CSV is available zipped below and [...]
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A OS X service to encode HTML characters
I find myself frequently writing HTML code in comment forms which support use of HTML formatting, which means that I have to encode the html entities if I want them to show up (as in representing '>' with '>', for example). ... I used the always-useful ThisService app with a short PHP script which does a htmlspecialchars() on whatever's passed to it, to create a OS X service called 'Encode HTML'.
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Some useful mini-plugins for WordPress
Three simple Wordpress plugins that provide shortcode-based functionality: Simple Google adsense insertion, a FLV media player, and a music list with flash players.
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Twitter posting lists with images
A Wordpress plugin to display recent Twitter updates, with images from Twinkle or Twitpic displayed inline. Also includes the core PHP class to be used in other systems.
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Advanced web templating with PHP and regular expressions
A method to gain more control over the styling of images for web templates/blog themes, using a bit of Regular Expression magic. This is the technique used for my recent theme, Elegant Grunge.
“Elegant Grunge” WordPress theme
An unwashed yet crisp Wordpress theme with a feature footer, beautiful styled image frames, a page template with a uniquely configurable sidebar and a photoblog tag page.
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Elegant Grunge 1.0 released