Dealing with human readable network addresses
Posted on October 18th, 2009 in Housekeeping | No Comments »
network_expand_range and network_compact_range allow the expansion and contraction of IP addresses or ranges as human readable input.
My name is Aidan Lister. I am a professional web developer working primarily with PHP. I am an author of the PHP documentation, and a PEAR developer.
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Executing a callback for all files in a directory
Posted on June 17th, 2009 in Programming | No Comments »
directory_walk allows running an arbitrary callback on all files in a deep directory structure.
Why I’ll never eBay again
Posted on June 16th, 2009 in Housekeeping | 6 Comments »
I listed my old Macbook Pro 15″ laptop for sale on eBay today. I paid my fees. I reviewed my add. I was happy for about 6 minutes, until I received a barrage of emails notifying me my account was suspended for “abuse” of their terms and conditions.
My account was locked down, leaving me unable to even log in to respond to the situation! All my bids on other items were revoked. Is this what online selling has become? If so, no thanks.
Implementing row level access control in CakePHP
Posted on May 2nd, 2009 in Programming | 4 Comments »
The ACL Component in CakePHP is very powerful and can be used to solve a wide variety of access control problems. In this tutorial, we provide a step-by-step guide for implementing row level access control to a model.