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In this recent article I discussed the usage of PHP convenience functions in a class based, object oriented environment. Thanks to some great feedback from Rick Hambrook, I have revised the example, so it fits Rick's suggestion. This implementation essentially gives the same functionality and usability, but wraps the convenience functions in a nice class. It looks better, and makes it easier to implement in other projects as well. <? // Conv class (Convenience function collection) class Conv { // Timestamp method function timestamp($time = false) { if(!$time) { $time = time(); } return date('Y-m-d ...

The web has a plethora of content management systems (CMS) available. Many are similar: Require installation, complex functionality, difficult to use. Few are easy and straightforward. Even fewer are hosted. Almost none of them are for free. I am not going to present the regular candidates like Typo3, Drupal etc., but I would like to direct your attention towards a never, more innovative way of managing the content of your website. CushyCMS offers quite a cool way of managing your website. It requires nothing but FTP access to your hosting account, and a few attributes in your HTML code (templates). CushyCMS works in a way, that allows you ...

And here we go again... Valentines Day 2011 is coming up, and yet again many females set high expectations and wishes for this day, which males run around all confused with all this emotional, flowery stuff and try to fulfill. It's one of those typical situations where male and female in many cases are predetermined to end up in conflict, because their views on certain aspects of life are just so fundamentally different. Now please, don't be insulted that this article is taking a very conservative view of the whole Valentines Day concept and relations between men and women. Not to forget about same-sex couples etc. This is merely meant ...

The Servage Facebook page has been around for about two years now. Initially it got quite a lot of members, reaching the first 1,000 quite fast. Unfortunately the amount of fans has been somewhat boringly constant for a while now, moving up and down around 1,900 people. It's nice to get so much feedback here and on Facebook, and it would be nice to see Servage pass the 2,000 mark on the Facebook page soon! Servage on Facebook: Click here! Please join our efforts and share our page with people you know use Servage, or people you might think could benefit from using Servage. Don't forget to give them ...