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How to create Private (and moderated) Forums BuddyPress and BBPress
If you develop on BuddyPress, you’re likely to get stuck while trying to get per-forum permissions.
Indeed, it seems there’s not yet a way to make BBPress read the BuddyPress groups and hide the froums belonging to private groups I had to develop a way myself.
Furthermore, I needed to give forum moderation rights to the moderators [...]
Mozilla gets on Wordpress MU. How does it feels guys?
( as I am still working on adapting Wordpress MU to the site I’m developing, this post is work-in-progress and will be updated every now and then. Be sure to check it back in a few days if the argument interests you)
I am always impressed when even large techy organizations like Mozilla adopt popular tools [...]
How to build an absolute url in php
Today, I was looking for a way to make an url absolute.
Ok, it’s easy. Guess I should think some good excuse for not being to able to do it in 5 minutes. The sad reality is I ended digging on google (again).
I am posting what I found, for …
Firebug: avoid errors in other browsers
Small snippets or full-featured libraries – if you develop in Javascript and don’t have Firefox and Firebug
installed – you’d better get them now.
Firebug is a Firefox extension which brings several top-notch inspection/debugging features. You can inspect
A brief look into REST
With the explosion of Rails like Mvc frameworks, URI well-formness whas brought more and more to the attention of web developers.
In php we see often great misuse of HTTP request method, with lots of parameters following the “?”, overuse of POST …
Know what you are gonna do !
A little IM conversation I had with one friend.
(me) che features vuoi avere per la primissima versione ?
Felice: non credo che la rilascio pubblica…
(me) vabbè. che features deve avere ?
(me) non lo sai, briccone..
Felice: …
Xdump: a little piece of my story as developer
I am slowly beginning to pull online docs and samples for Xdump.
Xdump was one debugging tool I had to develop for the reason that in some situations var_dump() simply is not enough.
Here’s the overview of xdump.
Of course one could …
Need for Cache
After going through PhpThumb hell, I decided to develop one serious decent caching library for caching dynamically generated images.
Download
Download zipped source from Google Code
Or browse svn repository
Download source from svn using: svn checkout
Xdump
When working with large arrays/objects,with complex references beetween variables or (again) php’s built-in var_dump() e debug_backtrace() shows their limits.
Have you ever tried to var_dump $GLOBALS ?
Even if when I started this lib there were already some classes which provided nice html formatted …
