Saturday, July 14th, 2007

PHP 4 On The Way Out

The PHP group have announced they are ending development and support for PHP 4 at the end of this year.
There will be no further releases of PHP 4.4 after the 31st December 2007, but they plan to continue making critical security fixes till August 2008.
Considering the poor uptake of PHP 5 and the fact [...]

Monday, April 9th, 2007

The How And Why Of 301 Redirects

Why would you want to set up a redirect?

To preserve search engine ranking on a page which has moved.
If your website has moved to a new domain.
To redirect incoming visitors to www.yourdomain.com instead of yourdomain.com, or vice versa.

The last point is the one I want to address in a little more detail, as it [...]

Thursday, March 22nd, 2007

How To Setup A Local Development Environment In Windows Using Apache, PHP, and MySQL

For a long time I used to code on the fly, downloading files, making changes, then reuploading them to the server. It’s a nauseatingly slow way of doing things and if you make a mistake somewhere you’ve just killed your website.
So when I started getting serious about developing I switched to a local development environment. For most [...]

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