Web Developer Blog
Should I Migrate to HTTPS?
Eventually, yes. Google announced in August of 2014 that they started to rank https websites slightly better than http websites within their search algorithm. It may be time to move to https for companies that want to be taken seriously and that want to conduct online business with valued customers. Since then, many sites have made the switch, [...]
WordPress Navigation Drill Down
I was looking for a way to drill down the menu structure in a wordpress widget that shows you all of the navigation pages. Turns out all you need to do is set it up using CSS, as wordpress already outputs all of the information you need to style it. What the widget had to [...]
ereg, eregi, ereg_replace is Deprecated
Since upgrading to PHP 5.3, there has been a lot of deprecated code that I’ve had to fix. Another of these is the family of ereg() eregi() and ereg_replace() – all of which can be replaced by preg_match(). While searching how to fix it, I came across a few sites that all gave similar results. [...]
Joomla dispatcher.php and event.php Fix Errors
There are a few plugins that aren’t compatible with PHP 5.3+ and Joomla 1.5x, and they may show up like the error messages below: PHP Warning: Parameter 2 to plgContentEmailCloak() expected to be a reference, value given in /libraries/joomla/event/dispatcher.php on line 136 […]
Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated
So you’ve run into this error message, sometimes in WordPress or another CMS that utilizes code that is considered depreciated. This is sometimes caused by an update to PHP – which is what’s happened in this case. Essentially, Since PHP 5.3 assigning the return value is depreciated. […]
