iCalendar format links
Sunday, July 2, 2006 at 6:32 PM • Web Design

I’m trying something weird with Movable Type that includes creating calendar files from the blog’s entries; for that to work, I need to code up a template in iCal/vCal/iCalendar format. To do that, I need to learn that format. I’ve been reading up; it’s still quite bewildering, and I’m probably going to get it wrong and have to abandon it. But here are some of the links I’ve accumulated so far.

PHP register globals and OS X
Friday, December 10, 2004 at 12:27 PM • Web Design

I’ve got PHP running on my computer (OS X is wonderful that way). Unfortunately my PHP files weren’t sending variables to one another, viz., when foo.php?bar=3 was loaded, the variable $bar wasn’t picked up. This meant that coding PHP-based web pages locally was a bit problematic.

As usual, Google is my friend. This discussion provided the answer, namely, that register globals were turned off by default as of PHP 4.2.0. (I’m running 4.3.2.) You turn them on again by editing httpd.conf: add php_admin_flag register_globals on between <IfModule mod_php4.c> and </IfModule>. A restart and hey presto, it works.

Bandwidth theft prevention through .htaccess
Tuesday, April 6, 2004 at 1:59 PM • Web Design

Another tutorial on how to use a .htaccess file to stop people from stealing your bandwidth by linking to your images (see previous entry; via Rebecca’s Pocket).

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