I have been developing a custom Content Management System (CMS) for Blam Designs and though there are several really good templating engines out there for PHP (such as Smarty) I find them usually bulky. Then there is also the need to learn the templating language as well. Though the templating languages are simple, it is

My networking professor handed out a group project to build a virtual token ring network and I thought I would share my findings here. Before you say anything, I know it is not a true token ring network, but it sorta acts like one which was more the goal of the project. My group partner

I started using jQuery last week and I am finding it to be a great library so far. It is very easy to interact with elements on the page in fun and creative ways. As a sample, I have been working with the Northwest Nazarene University web team and they wanted to develop a simple

I was working on a report for a client when I discovered this rather odd error: Fatal error: Trying to clone an uncloneable object of class mysqli. I am still not sure what caused this error, but there does seem to be a quick fix for it. ini_set(‘zend.ze1_compatibility_mode’, 0); Here is what the PHP manual

Lastnight as I was researching how to build a plugin system for a cms I am working on I ran across several implementations using the __call method. I had not used it before myself, but after doing a little googling I devised a test. It really is quite simple and can be a powerhouse in