Tag Archives: PHP
January 13, 2012 

Twitter’s Cute Picture of the Day

Have a thing for cute images? Me too — I can’t help it! Seeing something adorable tends to make my day. I needed my daily fix but was frequently too busy or too lazy to stop what I was doing to go and find something cute to look at.

Using that as my inspiration, my developer brain came up with an idea, so I went ahead and built a small script that scours imgur’s /r/aww gallery that grabs the highest scored image each day and posts it to twitter.

Are you interested in how it works? Go ahead and check out the source over on GitHub!

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December 19, 2011 

Easy MailChimp Integration

I just released the updated version of my MailChimp WordPress plugin,  Easy MailChimp Integration!

With Easy MailChimp Integration, you can seamlessly integrate your MailChimp account in to WordPress. All you need is your MailChimp account’s API key and a list id.

Once the setup is complete you can use a widget or a shortcode to put the forms on your posts and pages or use it in your custom templates with a php snippet.

If you notice any issues, please submit a bug to the Github Issue Tracker and I’ll look in to it as soon as possible.

This is a continuation of the YIKES, Inc. Easy MailChimp Extender plugin.

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October 26, 2010 

WordCamp Philly, Here I Come!

WordCamp Philly is coming up faster than I thought it would — it’s right around the corner now. I’m all registered and can’t wait to fill my head with all of that delicious WordPress information. I’m also really looking forward to all of the speakers this year including my friends Sean Blanda (one of the three co-founders of Techically Philly) and Reed Gustow. Are you going?

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July 29, 2010 

Need State and Country Dropdowns? No Problem!

Frequently while programming, I find myself in need of a complete list of the States, their abbreviations and sometimes even Countries. Usually I end up prowling Google trying to find some sort of list that I can then import in to a database. Each time I did it I kept wondering why I hadn’t created some script for that yet.

I know it’s more efficient to make use of a database with tables for States and Countries, however, in the event that I don’t need one or am just doing some sort of one off solution, I’ve created a couple functions and two arrays to help myself, and maybe you guys out. Need Dropdown? I Have ‘Em!

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June 9, 2010 

Adventuring in the Lands of Plugin Development

I was tasked recently with creating a WordPress plugin for the Philadelphia Sports Network. They needed a plugin created to allow Team Leaders to send email blasts from the frontend of the website without having to login. The Team Leader would put in his or her email address, the Team they were representing and a comma delimited list of emails that would receive the email blast. The content of the email would all be configured from the admin section.

This posed a little bit of a problem. I wasn’t exactly comfortable allowing everyone who visited that specific page to be able to send email blasts just by claiming that they were a Team Leader. Sometimes, though, you need to just do exactly what he client wants. With that in mind, I did my best to protect the form while working with the requirements I was given. What Did You Do?

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