Archive for January, 2008

Is Using $_POST And $_GET The End Of My Register Globals Woes?

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

On my travels I come across many people who are blissfully unaware of register globals and if they are aware of it, they misunderstand what it does.

Some people seem to believe that using the $_POST, $_GET… global arrays that they have protected themselves from the effects of register globals.

They couldn’t be further from the truth. (more…)

Wikia Released But Obvious Problems.

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

Finally a couple of days ago Wikia was released. We have been hearing publicity for this search engine for some time.

Wikia is of course only in beta mode at the moment but I already have a couple of problems with it. (more…)

Wordpress Plugins, Got Any Ideas?

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

I have just started making some wordpress plugins. My first attempt was a quiz script which seems to work fairly well however is not released as of yet.

My second plugin which I have just released in a beta state (and have applied for inclusion on the Wordpress site) is a cool plugin that will show you how many people are on your blog. It displays a handy link on the top right of your admin pages as well as having an added page within the Users section of the admin panel which shows who is online as well as what they are looking at. If you think this is an interesting plugin take a look at the Who’s Online Plugin page for more information. (more…)

Google Sitemaps And Subdomains.

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008

Some time ago I used to run a forum host which allowed people to have their forum hosted on a subdomain.

This of course caused problems with regards to sitemaps as the sitemap had to be placed within the domain/subdomain that it was being used under. And Google treated subdomains as if they were different domain names.

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