For seven years — until the middle of last year — I funded this web site, in its various forms, from my own pocket (in fact until very recently, the old ‘about’ page boasted about the lack of ads on the site — oops). OK, it doesn’t cost a huge amount — I use very [...]
Well it’s out (download here). Interesting additions include new Filter, JSON and ZIP extensions, and the previously-mentioned upload progress handling functions (although I can’t seem to find any documentation the the latter). There’s a new error mode — E_RECOVERABLE_ERROR — which allows user-defined error reporting to catch only those errors from which the system can [...]
There’s a wealth of interesting and useful info regarding the impact of Ajax-oriented development on page load times in this article by Jeff Moore.
Here’s one of those things that’s bugged me for a while, and I’ve just found the answer: how to get the location of the directory that uploaded files are stored in by PHP. Turns out it’s simple:
get_cfg_var(’upload_tmp_dir’);
Duh.
As an aside, if you’re dealing with uploaded files then you should be aware that it’s possible to tamper [...]