So, what a day today has been! Usually when you think of installing SSL certificates (if you have installed them before) you think it will take you no more than an hour to set the whole thing up, right? Well, not when it involves CPanel/WHM and wildcard certificates!

I really needed to get a list of files, recursively, from a rather large directory intensive web site sorted by the last modified date and I did not want to go through each directory searching for them by hand.  The idea was to get the last modified file in hope that I would find a [...]

As you may have guessed, I am writing this because there is an issue with using SimpleXML and Session variables in conjunction with each other.  Sessions apparently do not know how to handle object resource values that the SimpleXML engine generates.  If you attempt to assign a Session variable to a SimpleXML object value you [...]

I have been using pages to hold content in WordPress templates for some time now.  The problem I have with it is that every time I need to perform such an action I cannot remember how to do it nor where I have done it before.

Yep, I finally got around to adding a LinkedIn company profile.  Check it out. http://www.linkedin.com/companies/upwebdesign-llc

When setting a field in a MySQL database to be NULL by default you may run into NULL values in your dataset when querying the database.  You cannot simply check if a variable is set using the isset() function in PHP because it returns false for NULL values.  To remedy this issue you can use [...]

I have been thinking about adding a section to the site for designs and templates.  In this section you will have free, exclusive, limited, and unlimited designs. Free: meaning this can be downloaded at no cost as many times as users want with no premium. Exclusive: meaning this can only be downloaded once for a [...]

Have you ever created a page that has hidden div containers that are activated by a link that has a slide down effect on it?  In case you haven’t there is a slight problem when displaying content that needs to be shown and slid down when the trigger is at the bottom of the browser [...]

For about 2-3 hours I was sifting through the support forums and blogs throughout the web and was not able to find a fix for this weird bug/feature in the WordPress (there were a few fixes but none of them worked for this instance).

Lets say you have a developer that needs to work on one of the sites that you are hosting on your web server in your basement and you don’t want them to have free range to everything on the box.  Another piece of this is you really don’t want the user to have SSH access [...]