Smarty syntax error: unrecognized tag ‘dynamic’ and Block functions

I ran into this error while working with Smarty caching.  This error is caused by a “dynamic” block function not being registered with Smarty.  A block function is a function … Continue Reading →

Feedburner Custom URL

Feedburner offers a custom URL service which will allow for you to link to any domain/subdomain combination instead of feeds*.feedburner.com. The good news is anyone can do it. You can … Continue Reading →

How to execute PHP files via cron in CPanel

There are two ways that I know of (I’m sure there’s more) to execute php files within cron commands. php -q /home/USER/public_html/cron/path-to-file.php This first method will utilize relative paths. Meaning … Continue Reading →

Why do web developers support outdated browsers?

At the date of this post, IE 8 has been out for 4 months and IE 7 for 2.5 years.  Why am I still seeing threads about designing for IE … Continue Reading →

CSS Syntax Formatting Standards

Designing for readability is very important. Not only can it cut down on your own development time when you perform maintenance or make improvements to older sections of your site … Continue Reading →

CSS Form Element Standards

Having standards set within your code is probably one of the single most effective habits you can have as a developer. Even if your code is bad, having a standard … Continue Reading →

Multiple MySQL statements with a single query

To run multiple statements within a single query you simply need to separate the statements with a semicolon to signify the end of the statement. UPDATE `inventory` SET `value` = 2 WHERE … Continue Reading →

Valid RSS 2.0 Generator Class

I’ve been searching Google and couldn’t find anything except documentation. So I’m posting this here in hopes that it will help someone else from having to go through a few … Continue Reading →

What’s the point of RSS?

This may sound like a stupid question to those that use it, but having just started using it myself I can understand the perspective.  RSS seems to confusing and pointless … Continue Reading →

Success Messages

In almost all of my web sites I have setup forms on our site so that upon submitting successfully, they would either show the success message at the top of … Continue Reading →