tim gavin

Code monkey

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My New Project: Formr

Build a form in < 10 lines of code, with server-side validation and full Bootstrap implementation - right out of the box.

http://formr.github.io

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timgavin/cloud-files-image-gallery

A small PHP/mySQL application for uploading and displaying image galleries using Rackspace Cloud Files

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Install ImageMagick with MAMP Pro 3

It's really simple to install ImageMagick with MAMP Pro 3

Open MAMP Pro

Go to File > Edit template > PHP > PHP 5.6.x

The php.ini file will open.

Go to File > Find, then search for magick

Uncomment the following line

;extension=imagick.so

so that it's now

extension=imagick.so

Save the file, close it and restart the server. That's it!

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Set Encoding in ezSQL

When creating a new connection just set the fifth parameter to the encoding you desire and ezDB will run a 'SET NAMES' query with your preferred encoding after making the connection. Really easy!

$db = new ezSQL_mysqli(     'username',     'password',     'database',     'localhost',     'UTF-8' );

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How to Run a mySQLi Transaction in ezSQL

// begin the transaction $db->query('BEGIN'); // run all of your queries here... // commit the queries if($db->query('COMMIT') !== false) { // transaction was successful } else { // transaction failed, rollback $db->query('ROLLBACK'); }

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Tumblr OAuth for Tumblr API v2

Example code and screencast for integrating Tumblr OAuth into your PHP project.

https://github.com/timgavin/tumblroauth

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Handle errors in ezSQL

If you use ezSQL you know the global error array $EZSQL_ERROR is crap and doesn’t work, which makes it difficult to see what’s really going on when running UPDATE queries.

So how can you tell if a query was successful or not?

Like so…

if($db->query($query) !== false) { // query was successful return true; } else { return false; }

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Laravel 4 & MAMP Pro: Installing via Terminal A brief step-by-step guide on how to install Laravel 4 via the Terminal so it plays nicely with MAMP Pro.

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plurals in php

Sometimes it's a pain in the ass to figure out when to add an apostrophe or the word "is" instead of "are", etc., especially if you're grabbing data from a db, or some other blind source. So I've whipped up a couple of basic (no frills) functions to do just that. They're available as Gists. Hopefully they're helpful.

Here's a little sample

<?php $name1 = 'Chris'; $food1 = 'gyro'; $total_food1 = 1; $name2 = 'Tim'; $food2 = 'beer'; $total_food2 = 20; ?>

echo 'That salad is '.plural($name1);

Produces That salad is Chris'

echo 'There '.are_is($total_food1).' '.plural($food1,$total_food1);

Produces There is 1 gyro

echo 'That pizza is '.plural($name2);

Produces That pizza is Tim's

echo 'There '.are_is($total_food2).' '.plural($food2,$total_food2);

Produces There are 20 beers

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Connect Your Site to Tumblr With OAuth

How to connect your site to Tumblr using OAuth, PHP and MySQL. Tutorial files available on GitHub