Category Archives: PHP

Ugly Old RPG Code

Posted on July 20, 2011 by Steve

Here’s an example of my past, and how bad I used to be at application design. I started this RPG back in 2006 and eventually stopped making it at the end of 2008. It sort of works… well, it would … Continue reading →

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Exception Thrown Without a Stack Frame and Sessions

Posted on March 18, 2011 by Steve

Just a note, if anyone receives this error at the bottom of the page when programming in PHP, and you’ve checked things like throwing exceptions inside of exception handlers, check any objects you’re storing in $_SESSION. If an exception is … Continue reading →

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PHP Shell Execution Reminder

Posted on January 15, 2011 by Steve

If you are using PHP to execute a custom-written shell script, keep in mind that the $PATH for the web server’s user can be different than the user account you’re using to execute it. Meaning, if it doesn’t behave properly, … Continue reading →

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Ancient Image Class

Posted on June 7, 2010 by Steve

This is a really old image library/class thing I wrote back in Summer 2006 while working with Jeremy and his company. I believe it was originally written in PHP4 and updated to PHP5 a month or two after the original … Continue reading →

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Wildfire Log Adapter for Solar

Posted on May 29, 2010 by Steve

While doing some more development for Crindigan, I figured I should be looking for a better way to show debug information than putting it in the page footer, so I looked at FirePHP. Unfortunately the Firephp log adapter in Solar … Continue reading →

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Pwiff Update

Posted on February 8, 2010 by Steve

I just committed a simple Movie and Encoder class, so making a blank movie is now far easier to understand. At least now you don’t have to calculate the file length by hand. The first step is to define an … Continue reading →

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Pwiff Source Released

Posted on February 6, 2010 by Steve

Today, I was able to get Pwiff to create a “blank” SWF file, meaning a header, a FileAttributes tag, and an End tag. As a result, I decided to start a Google Code project for it, and host the files … Continue reading →

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NextShout is now Free

Posted on February 3, 2010 by Steve

NextShout was a commercial shoutbox product I released two or three years ago, for the vBulletin forum software. Its bandwidth consumption is far lower than any competing products, due to its use of efficient JSON and only sending information deltas, … Continue reading →

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Introducing Pwiff

Posted on February 3, 2010 by Steve

Considering I’ve reached a small milestone in the project, I figured I would write a post explaining what I’ve been up to. My previous entry relates to this, as at the time I was experimenting with writing a class to … Continue reading →

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Extracting Information from Floats

Posted on January 25, 2010 by Steve

I was tinkering around with working in binary again, for a project I may or may not follow through on – still deciding. Along the way I was dealing with floating point numbers, and how to work with their individual … Continue reading →

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