Category Archives: PHP

10 Steps to Setting-Up Your PC as a Development Server for WordPress

Published in Getting Started, PHP, Resources, Web Development, Wordpress on October 12, 2010

This is your step-by-step guide to setting up a WordPress web development environment on a PC using XAMPP, WordPress 3.x, and Subversion. XAMPP installs PHP, MySQL, and Apache on your PC turning it into a local web server for development purposes.  Once installed you can begin creating custom WordPress themes and plugins in your own [...]

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Using Custom Post Types in WordPress 3.0

Published in PHP, Web Development, Wordpress on February 23, 2010

So what is all of the buzz about custom post types in WordPress 2.9 and 3.0? What can we do with a “post_type” and why does it matter? For some of us developers out there who have known the secret that WordPress is actually much more than just a blogging platform this in no big [...]

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How To Create Barcodes in PHP

Published in PHP on March 31, 2009

A few years ago I needed a way to generate barcodes on-the-fly using PHP, at the time there were several solutions available at a steep cost, so I wrote this script that generates barcodes in four barcode formats including Code 128, Code 39, Code 2of5, and Codabar. With a little over 100 lines of code [...]

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