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Installing PHP on OS X for web development

By sam | Published: October 17, 2011

There are a number of ways to install PHP as a part of apache on OS X. For a while I used MAMP and a couple of scripts to start and stop the processes and point htdocs to the current directory. Then I ran into a problem with MAMP’s PHP not supporting connections to MS [...]

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WordPress network on Dreamhost

By sam | Published: March 12, 2011

WordPress, as of version 3.0, allows you to set up more than one site within the same installation. Each site uses the same core software and users can use the same credentials in all the sites they have access to across the network. Essentially, it allows you to set up a mini WordPress.com. Since I [...]

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Presentation: WordPress Off Road

By sam | Published: November 13, 2010

Here are the slides from my presentation at WordCamp Minneapolis / St. Paul, 2010. I talked about a PHP class I wrote called wp_posts, how to update options across multiple WordPress sites in a WordPress multisite installation, and how to get LDAP authentication for multisite WordPress up and rolling. WordPress Off Road – Slides

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Speaking at WordCamp MSP, 2010

By sam | Published: November 6, 2010

I’m going to be speaking at WordCamp Minneapolis 2010 on November 13. My presentation is titled WordPress Off Road. I’m going to talk about integrating WordPress with a multi-faceted (non-WordPress) website. I will be introducing a PHP class called wp_posts for exporting WordPress posts, scripts I’ve developed for maintaining multi-site WordPresses and experiences setting up [...]

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Accessing IPInfoDB with a PHP class

By sam | Published: August 26, 2010

I am working on an analytics tool and needed to pull info from the public IPInfoDb. You can get data for 1 – 25 IP’s at a time, and the data is returned as XML or JSON. I wrote a quick Library for PHP that accesses their data using the JSON format. It selects the [...]

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