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PHP Library Highlights 2025

On the old website I had a new single post for things I discovered and looked at! Crazy… I will update this post with things I find, enjoy and you might like too over the coming months.Far more organised on my own page now! Awesome curated PHP libraries & resources Packages of Goodness

2023 Wordpress Speedup Mo Files

WordPress: Caching MO-files … Does it make any sense!

First a bit of context :) What is Gettext? Translation within WordPress is based of Gettext. Gettext is a software internationalization and localization (i18n) framework used in many programming languages to facilitate the translation of software applications into different languages. It provides a set of tools and libraries for managing multilingual strings and translating them […]

Cubicfusion Hotspot

Extending iPanorama 360 with an arial / floor – map

WHAT IS IPANORAMA 360? iPanorama 360 for WordPress is a specialized plugin that enables users to create and display interactive 360-degree virtual tours or panoramic images on WordPress websites. It extends the functionality of the WordPress content management system by providing a user-friendly interface and a range of features specifically tailored for creating and showcasing 360-degree […]

Destination Youtube Data Api

Destination Youtube: Sync WooCommerce Products & Youtube Videos

INTRODUCTION This is not a tutorial, but more like sharing a nice geeky road-trip ;)  I have a pretty good understanding of the Youtube Data API, as I have actively used it on portalZINE TV in the past, to upload videos and dynamically link them to my local post-types. For one of my latest customer […]

Hosting Mp3

Hosting MP3 files on Google Drive + HTML5 Audio Player

What Google Drive Sharing offers us! I am doing a Podcast on portalZINE.TV since last year and always host a backup of the MP3 episodes on Google Drive. The link that you create, when enabling file sharing on Google Drive, can not be used to actually embed it on your website. The link looks something […]

Parsing Csv In Js

Importing CSV files with HTML5 and Papa Parse!

PAPA PARSE Papa Parse is a powerful, in-browser CSV parser for the big boys and girls :)If you do need easy CSV parsing and conversion back to CSV, take a look at it! // Parse CSV string var data = Papa.parse(csv); // Convert back to CSV var csv = Papa.unparse(data); // Parse local CSV file […]

UTF-8 CSV files that Excel likes

Excel needs to know that you are using non-ASCII characters in your CSV or it will not display them correctly :) Add the BOM(Byte Order Mark) to the first line, notifying Excel that you are offering a UTF-8 encoded file. //headers header(‘Pragma: public’); header(‘Expires: 0’); header(‘Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0’); header(‘Content-Description: File Transfer’); header(‘Content-Type: text/csv’); header(‘Content-Disposition: attachment; […]

Acf Fun

Advanced Custom Fields – Free Your Gutenberg Blocks Data

Updated 25.03. : Some function names changed in the latest beta version. IN BETA ACF 5.8 Beta introduced an easy way to create your custom Gutenberg blocks. I am already using it heavily for a current project, to easily organize content and media assets.  Really powerful, when combined with Timber as well, which has been the foundation of many […]

Codecombat

CodeCombat – programming can be as much fun as a game

CodeCombat is a multiplayer programming game for learning how to code. The ultimate goal of CodeCombat is to bring more users into the field of computer programming by making the logic and syntax more accessible and enjoyable to learn. The end game is to educate a whole new generation of computer programmers that started their […]

Syntaxhighlight

Generic Syntax Highlighting with Regular Expressions in pure PHP

Due to Google AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) , I have been looking for a way to effectively do Syntax Highlighting without Javascript in pure PHP. I was about to write my own, when I found an older article from phoboslab. Thanks Dominic for saving me some time ;) Its not perfect, but close enough. A simple Syntax Highlighting Class that does just that. […]

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