The home of Eric Sizemore aka SecondVersion.
For the past two years, I’ve been fortunate to use JetBrains‘ excellent PHPStorm IDE through their Open Source Program. The free license gave me access to all the powerful development tools I could need, and significantly enhanced my productivity as a developer. The Unexpected Change Recently, I was sent an email stating that my license … Read more
By default, WordPress adds a “generator” meta tag to your site header HTML. The content of the tag contains “WordPress” and the version you are running. For example: WordPress 3.1.3 With a simple edit of your theme functions.php file, you can either remove or alter this tag to add a small, additional layer of security. … Read more
In my boredom, I find I do a lot of things. Some of those things range from very silly to intense coding sessions. So, out of boredom tonight, I have built a script to use the Pastebin.ca API to make pastes remotely. Below you will find the code and an example. Let me know if … Read more
Note: I have also posted this at vbulletin.org
In vBulletin 4, the developers recently upgraded the bundled YUI version to 2.9.0 from 2.7.0. Since vB 3.8 is EOL, I found a way to manually update the bundled YUI version. I’ve tested vB 3.8 with YUI 2.9.0 as much as I could, and did not run into any problems.
To keep it short and sweet today, the following is a PHP function that will check the input for a valid URL, and will also check to see if it is responding (ie: returning Status: 200 OK).