I recently ran across a situation where a string being used as a key contained numeric characters. The requirements specified stated that the new data structure keys do not contain numbers. This is a very simple problem to solve and can be done with a simple PHP str_replace. The following function is what I came

Counting the number of columns, or fields, in a MySQL table is a fairly simple, though not exactly obvious task. You will need to know both the name of the table to query on, as well as the database. The query is as follows, plug in your values for database_name and table_name SELECT COUNT(*) FROM

The WikiMedia Foundation (WMF) provides public access to the MediaWiki code base via a Subversion code revisioning system. For the majority of users who just want to be on the bleeding edge of MediaWiki simply pulling from this public server will suffice, however this only allows users read access to the repository. If you want

I am working on a pretty major project right now and one of the requirements is the ability to interact with the Meetup API. I looked around and found one existing Meetup client in PHP, however it is horribly architected and as I started using it thinking I could improve it I decided it would

I am working on a project that requires me to pull the last 15 minutes worth of posts from a custom post type out of the wp_posts table for analysis. I thought this would be easy and quick, however I spend around 20 minutes digging until I finally found a nugget way at the bottom