Web Developmemt

Is PHP a scripting language or a high-level language?

Posted by Apostolos on Jun 27, 2010 in Web Developmemt | 0 comments

I tend to get a few questions from people on whether PHP is a scripting language or a proper high level language. The term High Level Language refers to the higher level of abstraction from machine language. Rather than dealing with registers, memory addresses and call stacks, high-level languages deal with variables, arrays and complex arithmetic or boolean expressions. In addition, they have...

Setup a Development Environment for Your WordPress Site

Posted by Apostolos on Sep 26, 2006 in Web Developmemt | 0 comments

How many times you have stumbled upon a theme or a plug-in that you want to test on your site? WordPress does not offer a preview feature so the only option is to make it live which should not be the prefered (and only) option while testing or in general experimenting with new features.

In this article, we will investigate how we can setup a copy of our WordPress powered site on a local machine will serve as a development and test environment.

Setting up Eclipse for PHP

Posted by Apostolos on Jul 10, 2006 in Web Developmemt | 0 comments

The pursue of a PHP editor is not a easy one. Over the years, I have tried a variety of editors. Some of them were generic text editors, like Notepad, VI, Pico, Textpad, KEDit, XCode and some dedicated PHP editors like Zend and PHPEdit. I needed a PHP editor that I could use on my Mac mini and my PC computer at work. I couldn't find one that was meeting all my needs. Zend editor is a good choice but it is expensive and slow. Hence, PHPEclipse.

Search Engine (University of Sussex)

Posted by Apostolos on Jul 9, 2006 in Web Developmemt | 0 comments

Up in the top right corner of Firefox, there’s a handy search box that puts search engines at your fingertips. When you download Firefox, a number of searches (like Google, Yahoo, and Ebay) are included but you can easily add more. There are literally hundreds of search engines available. I have written a Firefox search engine for the website of the University of Sussex. You can install it...