Paul Richards

Persistent sessions is a set of mechanisms created in php that allow authentication to persist across multiple browser sessions (ie closing down the browser). Any session variables you set in php are destroyed and cant be used in further sessions. This means annoyingly that your users must then sign into you site again. Their are [...]

As a PHP web developer I’ve tried many different tools to aid my work. There are many tools out there to try and I encourage you to do so, but I have complied a list of what consider essential to make your job as easy as possible. If anyone has any useful tools/sites I haven’t [...]

MySQL has powerful functions built in to manipulate data with dates. These functions only work within MySQL providing your using their own date/time stamp. If your like me, your much rather use the PHP function time() to get the Unix timestamp and store that in the database. It seems a shame to miss out on [...]