Standalone PHP Apps in Windows

November 3, 2010 at 8:56 pm | PHP, Windows | No comment

If you want to make simple standalone command-line apps in Windows using PHP, go download the Bambalam PHP EXE Compiler/Embedder. It can’t get much simpler.

Write your code, run compile.bat, and Bambalam! you’ve got you app.

For using command-line parameters, check out these variables:

$_SERVER['argc']; // number of arguments
$_SERVER['argv']; // array of arguments

WordPress plugins for an effective CMS

November 2, 2010 at 9:01 pm | PHP | 2 comments

This is a list of all the plugins I used on a recent project that worked well together to streamline WordPress for better use as a CMS. Simple Fields worked really well for having a different banner image on each page.

Admin Management Xtended

WordPress 2.7+ only. Extends admin functionalities by introducing: toggling post/page visibility inline, changing page order with drag’n'drop, inline category management, inline tag management, changing publication date inline, changing post slug inline, toggling comment status open/closed, hide draft posts, change media order, change media description inline, toggling link visibility, changing link categories

By Oliver Schlöbe | Visit plugin site

Admin Menu Editor

Lets you directly edit the WordPress admin menu. You can re-order, hide or rename existing menus, add custom menus and more.

By Janis Elsts | Visit plugin site

CMS Dashboard

Big user friendly buttons to make your clients happy and your wordpress a better CMS

By Ross Johnson | Visit plugin site

CMS Tree Page View

Adds a CMS-like tree view of all your pages, like the view often found in a page-focused CMS. By using the tree you can edit, view, add pages and even search pages (useful if you have many pages). And with drag and drop you can rearrange the order of your pages. Page management won’t get any easier than this!

By Pär Thernström | Visit plugin site

Members

A user, role, and content management plugin for controlling permissions and access. A plugin for making WordPress a more powerful CMS.

By Justin Tadlock | Visit plugin site

Simple Fields

Add groups of textareas, input-fields, dropdowns, radiobuttons, checkboxes and files to your edit post screen.

By Pär Thernström | Visit plugin site

TinyMCE Advanced

Enables advanced features and plugins in TinyMCE, the visual editor in WordPress.

By Andrew Ozz | Visit plugin site

White Label CMS

A plugin that allows you to brand wordpress CMS as your own

By www.videousermanuals.com | Visit plugin site

strtoslug() – SEO Friendly URL’s with PHP

October 8, 2009 at 4:52 pm | PHP | No comment

Quick n’ Simple.  Check it:

function strtoslug($str) {
	$str = strtolower(trim($str));
	$str = preg_replace('/[^a-z0-9-]/', '-', $str);
	$str = preg_replace('/-+/', "-", $str);
	return $str;
}