Posted on : 17-Feb-2010 | By : jontroth | In : PHP Programmer, Tricks & Treats
I needed a quick and simple method to show YouTube thumbnails to for a “What’s New” video section so I whiped up this quick and dirty class.
Posted on : 14-Feb-2010 | By : jontroth | In : PHP Programmer, Tricks & Treats
I recently had the chance to setup a Chase Merchant Account Orbital Gateway. I needed a PHP solution for it though Orbital didn’t have any PHP examples, only SDKs for Java, Perl and .net.
So I decided to use their XML API and create the PHP script using CURL.
I hope this is helpful to anyone looking for help with the Chase Orbital Gateway.
Posted on : 04-Feb-2010 | By : jontroth | In : .htaccess file, Tricks & Treats
The Rewrite Mod is often noted as the Swiss Army Knife of htaccess URL manipulation, a tool with unlimited functionality and flexibility though also one with a lot of complexity.
On that note it is also probably the most confusing feature for an htaccess novice, so don’t expect to understand this entire module in just one day.
The Rewrite Mod uses regular expression rules to rewrite requested URLs on the fly. It allows you to apply an unlimited amount of rules that can contain an unlimited amount of rule conditions to provide a really flexible and powerful URL manipulation tool. The rules rely on various server variables, environmental variables, HTTP headers, time stamps and even external database lookups.
