Archive for the ‘Coding’ Category

Beginner’s Guide to PHP - Part Four

In Part Three of the Beginner’s Guide to PHP we learnt about the if construct (”statement”), and using it to check the value of some input. In this guide we’ll learn about two more constructs: foreach() and array()
foreach Construct
foreach — a type of loop, but we’ll cover that more in the future — is a [...]

 

Bloody Akismet

You know how I mentioned that I was being spammed by link-droppers on dofollow posts? Well, this was despite running Akismet. It turns out, that on top of *not* picking up the blatant link-dropping, it was falsely listing some of my long-time readers as spam! Fook knows how long that’s been going on, I never [...]

 

Block Spam with a Scoring System

One of the most effective spam blocking techniques I used in my custom CMS was a scoring system. The idea is that the more spammy someone is, the higher the score they are given. After a certain cut-off point whereby a person or spam-bot has a score than our pre-set threshold, their comment or correspondence [...]

 

BellaBook3.6 Release

BellaBook3.6 is out with some big-ish changes behind the scenes (tidying, etc). Mostly the same up front Testing would be appreciated as it’s late and I’m knackered, but always back-up entries.txt first.
Update: fixed some typos that were causing edit/delete errors. Please re-download. I really shouldn’t code at 11pm of an evening. :/

 

Turdy Tutorials and InstantRock.com

I first discovered InstantRock.com through a thread over at Cynosure MB (yay, go referrals!) Apparently I’m really mean, and I know everything. Actually, I’m not sure that’s what they meant, but that’s how I like to read it Consider this a continuation of everything I said about xoxmariah.com (now closed, harhar).
In the grand [...]