Adding markers to a satellite image
In the previous blog posts, I have shown you how to add a marker for a GPS coordinate to an SVG image. In this case, we calculated the x/y pixel position and have drawn an SVG circle or marker path. … Read more →
Posts Tagged ‘PHP’
Geo coordinates to pixel positions – build a map with your own images
This blog post will be a start of a little post series. For a project, I recently had to add markers of cities to a map of Germany. I did that manually in the past, but as the maps has … Read more →
Fatal errors on WordPress with PHP 8+ and an incorrect translation
Last week, I got a report about a broken site, that caught me a bit by surprise. I’ll recreate the issue with a dummy plugin here, so show what went wrong. When navigating to the page with the error, this … Read more →
Update all composer dependencies to their latest versions
If you code in PHP, changes are very high that you are using composer to manage your dependencies. At one point, you will add a dependency. The version you’ve first installed can be updated with a single command, but it … Read more →
Make changes to PHP ini values without losing them on an update
If you have ever set up a server yourself, you probably realized, that the default values for PHP don’t really work for modern websites. The upload_max_filesize is set to only 2 MB, which means that you cannot upload anything into … Read more →
Debugging PHP functions in WordPress
When developing a plugin or theme, you sometimes want to debug one specific function. This function might be used in a larger context, which makes debugging quite difficult and/or slow. Let’s take the example of a function used in a … Read more →
Why you should not put theme code in plugins
I regularly maintain about 40 WordPress websites. Updating plugins and themes can cause issue, but updating core usually goes without any issue. Not so this week on a new website I updated for the first time. After the core update … Read more →
Shortcut of the month: CTRL + SHIFT + T (Aptana)
A few days ago I was working with eclipse (or more precisely with Aptana 1.5) on a project. I have accidentally closed a file, although I was not finished yet. In trying to open this file again I could have … Read more →
(Deutsch) Zeilen-Duplizierer mit AutoComplete Felder nutzen
(Deutsch) Ich bekam heute in einem Kommentar die Frage gestellt, ob mein Zeilen-Duplizierer aus dem Beitrag: Einfacher Zeilen-Duplizierer mit Prototype auch auf Feldern funktioniert, die die Scriptaculous Ajax.AutoCompleter Funktion verwenden. Ich nutze den Duplizierer selbst in einem Formular, das solche … Read more →
Google Maps Suggest – Address-Autocompletion with Scriptaculous
Many uses autocompletion on their website. It’s not only an impressiv but also a very user-friendly feature. It can also help to have valid data within a form. But you always have to validate the data on the server before … Read more →