One of the greatest contributors to the WordPress plugins repository is Lester “GaMerZ” Chan.
It’s testament to the value of his contributions that his work has not only been duplicated, borrowed and built upon by hundreds of other plugin developers — just search “gamerz” in the WordPress plugins repository to see how many times his [...]
Archive of posts tagged PHP
Hacking WP-PluginsUsed To Remove Plugin Version Numbers
Grouping Your WordPress Blog Comments By Type: Comments, Trackbacks And Pingbacks
First, my apologies for the extended period of time off I took from this blog. There’s no great scandal behind the break I took; my health and humor are just fine. As Technorati notes, somewhere around 95 percent of blogs haven’t been updated in three months; I just kind of fell into that groove. But [...]
Calculating The Bearing And Compass Rose Direction Between Two Latitude / Longitude Coordinates In PHP
A comment recently made to my blog post, “Getting All ZIP Codes In A Given Radius From A Known Point / ZIP Code Via PHP And MySQL“:
Does any one know how to work out the bearing from one set of coordinates to another.
For example, if the calculated bearing was 90 (degrees) the using if statements [...]
Working With The Authorize.net Customer Information Manager (CIM), Part 1: Overview
I’m going to spend several posts discussing authorize.net’s Customer Information Manager, a Web service for storing and retrieving personally identifiable information about the people who place credit card orders on your Web site.
Today, I’m focusing solely on an overview of CIM: What it is, how it works, why it works that way, and approaches to [...]
How I Code On This Blog: Elegance Vs. Transparency
My recent comment exchange with Scriptar has prodded me to post an explanation of how I code on this blog.
I view the code I post here as having two priorities: elegance and transparency, weighted slightly more toward elegance.
What I mean is that most importantly, the code I post should be as simple, compact and [...]
Parent – Child Select Lists Revisited: Multiple Parent – Child Select Lists Via PHP, MySQL And jQuery
A while ago, I promised to answer Brian’s request for a demonstration of how to make multiple parent / child select lists — in other words, starting from one drop down / select list, having two or more child lists, each of which, in turn, may act as a parent to another list.
Multiple parent-child select [...]
