Hexydec Blog: Articles about all things Web
Welcome to our blog, where you can read tutorials and discussions about various web technologies and techniques.
Please note that any code is provided as a guide to how to achieve the technique being discussed, and should be understood and adapted before use in your own codebase.
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How to get a PHP site to work in a folder
I generally deal with my own systems most of the time, but every now and then I am given a website to work on that someone else has developed, getting it to work on my local system inevitably throws up some issues, here are some of the tricks I use to get them working.
So I have a zip file containing the website and the database, to get it setup to work on my system, I follow the normal routine: unzip the website to a folder in my local web root, install the database, and find where they have put the connection details to update them to my own.
By Will Earp, Posted Thursday 7th of March 2013Improving Front-end Performance with HTTP Headers
Click . . . waiting . . . waiting . . . i’ll go somewhere else.
When you are browsing the internet, if a page is to slow, you just go and find the information somewhere else. So if your website feels sluggish, and you have to wait more than a few seconds for pages to appear, then you have got a major problem.
By Will Earp, Posted Sunday 19th of August 2012Upgrading Password Security in PHP
Traditionally the preserve of governments and banks, since the rise of the internet, advanced Cryptography is now widely available to the public.
As a developer I often have to build systems that safely and securely store people’s personal data. In this article we are going to focus on storing passwords.
By Will Earp, Posted Monday 18th of June 2012Formatting Data with MySQL
If you are developing websites with PHP, chances are your application is backed up by MySQL, the combination of Open Source, well supported API, and easy management make it the weapon of choice for many a PHP dev, including me.
In this blog post I want to show you how you can leverage the power of MySQL's string formatting functions to format your data for you, so that when it gets to your rendering engine, all the work is already done.
By Will Earp, Posted Tuesday 22nd of May 2012How our new blogging software works
Hexydec Ltd is a software development company providing high quality bespoke database driven applications and systems to our clients, as such it was a given that we should develop our own blogging software that works with our other software components, enabling us to setup blogs for our clients and develop the software further with each deployment.
This article describes the features of this software.
By Will Earp, Posted Monday 21st of May 2012Welcome to our new blog
I have been in the web game since 1998, and would not know nearly as much as I know now had it not been for other great developers posting articles, answering questions on forums, and generally giving to the community.
So now it is time to us to give some back, and hopefully provide a useful free resource for other web developers and companies to discover new techniques, learn from the mistakes we have made, and get involved in discussions about the topics we will be raising.
By Will Earp, Posted Monday 21st of May 2012