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Timestamp, Date, time, and timestamp format specifiers

Monday, July 6th, 2009

An item of type TIMESTAMP is a series of one to twenty single-byte numeric digits that reflect a specific moment. The meaning of each digit is determined by the mask that you specify when declaring the item.

The following characters are available, in order, when you specify the mask: (more…)

The “Portable PHP password hashing framework” for wordpress

Sunday, June 28th, 2009

The “Portable PHP password hashing framework”  is a php class used in wordpress to generate password’s hash.

It is a separate project, and like many others wordpress features is included/combined in the code to create this blog written/coded by Matt Mullenweg. (more…)

Zikula SEO – the meta keywords function hacking

Friday, June 5th, 2009

There is an option in Zikula administration control panel that is needed to set the mode on how to display meta keywords for dinamically created pages.

This option can be found in:  Global Settings Panels -> Owner Settings -> Dynamic meta-keywords

Scenario SEO and analysis :

By setting on Yes this option you’ll have meta keywords generated dynamically for each page and based /extracted on/from his content. More precisely, some functions are taking these words dynamically from articles, comments or from  some other contest, as text, and it will go to be outputted for the requested page.

Under a superficial SEO analysis it can be not so good thing that our site homepage, will have time by time meta tag keywords changed and different because are generated dynamically. (more…)

Error on wordpress after the auto update: how to solve

Friday, May 29th, 2009

There is a feature in wordpress that is very useful: the auto update to the latest version of wordpress when it has been released in a new version. Unfortunately can happen that in change, after that automatic update process has finished, we have error 500 from any blog’s page. The error 500 can come out in wordpress after the automatic update because the process go to renew any single file and setting for each file the CHMOD permission to 644 (only read). (more…)

Mediawiki: exadecimal values for archived mysql data

Wednesday, May 20th, 2009

Many of the values archived on /for the Media Wiki software on a default installation and that constitute the environment data sources for this application written in php are encoded in hexadecimal, so for example the field related to the users options look like this sequence (the string need to be considered on one single line without spaces and tabs: it has been split on several lines to do not breack out html tables):

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Wordpress: formatting posts or pages titles

Tuesday, January 13th, 2009

Do you know …
It is possible to format using html code any wordpress post’s title or page title.
A simple example? We like to wrap a phrase like this exactly in three lines:

Contrary to popular belief, Lorem Ipsum is not simply random text. It has roots in a piece of classical Latin literature from 45 BC, making it over 2000 years old.

You can write the sample title in this way:

Contrary to popular belief,<br /> Lorem Ipsum is not simply random text. <br />It has roots in a piece of classical Latin literature from 45 BC, making it over 2000 years old.