Category Archives: Scripting

Pointing older Movable Type files to WordPress

Using mod_rewrite to map files from a legacy Movable Type installation to their WordPress equivalents.
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ALA’s PHP Switcher revisited

Recently, the webzine A List Apart published an article by Chris Clark that demonstrated stylesheet switching using PHP. However, the code used won’t work on some recent installations of PHP.
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PHP, RSS and del.icio.us

Things to remember when doing dumb things like moving your site to PHP just to get a cool RSS feed.
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Storing the PHP session ID in a form

A tiny code snippet that helps with accessing SID and PHPSESSID in form submissions.
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Nielsen’s Top Ten

Jakob Nielsen’s “Top Ten Web Design Mistakes of 2003″ exposes some real bugbears that I can completely sympathise with, particularly with respect to credit card entry fields.
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