Robert Accettura's
Fun With Wordage

I’ve been really busy lately, hence posting is a bit light. I plan to pickup soon. I’ve been working on many things.
On a side note, switching programming languages (Visual Basic .NET, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, PHP, Perl) all in one day can be very confusing at times. I’ve been finding myself mixing up [...]

After seeing Matt’s post that TinyMCE has been integrated into WordPress, I think I’m doing the same to a few things I’m currently developing. I was considering a WYSIWYG tool previously for these projects, but decided against it mainly because of the poor code they often produce. TinyMCE is rather good, but didn’t [...]

The PHP development team is proud to announce the official release of PHP 5.
Some of the key features of PHP 5 include:

The Zend Engine II with a new object model and dozens of new features.
XML support has been completely redone in PHP 5, all extensions are now focused around the excellent libxml2 library (http://www.xmlsoft.org/).
A new [...]

Well what PHP books do you recommend for someone who wants to enhance already pretty solid understanding of the language? I’ve got a rather good level of experience, but want some reference, and good tips on getting better (there’s always room to improve).
MySQL, Second Edition
Programming PHP
PHP Cookbook
Web Database Applications with PHP & MySQL
Advanced PHP [...]

If your a PHP developer, and you don’t know about it yet, check out vLIB. I’ve worked quite a bit with templating for a few years now. I think this is the best library for implementing templates in a PHP application I’ve seen. It’s got a good amount of flexibility, and it’s [...]

If anyone knows of a good PHP class (must be open source license) that will display one of those CAPTCHA images with text that must be entred to deter bots (like what Network Solutions does for whois), I’d greatly appreciate it.

Was able to install Zend Optimizer. Updated PHP, and used another install script. Went perfectly.
Flight 93, as predicted was in the news again

Trying to get Zend Optimizer running successfully. So far no success. Will try again tomorrow with a clean installation of PHP. Perhaps that was the problem.
Can’t find reports of it working, or not working, so I will assume the best.

Well, for weeks (read: months) I have been working in my spare time on MailHID, a PHP class for obscuring email addresses. Despite a few lingering bugs, mostly with CC, BCC support, auto-learn, and Spam Bot Checking, I am just about ready to go with it. I had a test implementation on this [...]