Category Archives: Programming

OSCommerce / Paypoint redirects to payment information after paying

Posted on June 30, 2010 by Matt

I was asked to do some work on an oscommerce site which was accepting payments from paypoint (formally secpay) yet instead of redirecting the user to the “Thank you for your order” page it was sending them to the payment … Continue reading →

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Updated textarea maxlength with Jquery plugin

Posted on April 8, 2010 by Matt

When I first wrote the “Textarea maxlength with jQuery” plugin last year I had no idea how popular it would be – over 70% of the visits to my site since then have been people reading that one post. The … Continue reading →

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Testing Kohana3 with PHPUnit

Posted on December 2, 2009 by Matt

Unit testing is great, period. It allows you to test different parts of your application independently of the rest of the system.  Any changes that will cause problems elsewhere can be identified almost instantly (if you’re doing it right!). Up … Continue reading →

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Kohana – the php framework

Posted on October 16, 2008 by Matt

I know I haven’t written anything here for quite a while, but I just wanted to make a quick post about this totally amazing awesome MVC php framework called kohana. It was originally a fork of codeigniter (Another good php … Continue reading →

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Textarea maxlength with Jquery

Posted on July 5, 2008 by Matt

The other day I was trying to find a way to limit the amount of characters that a user could enter into a textbox. For some reason you can’t set the maxlength attribute on textareas, so I decided to make … Continue reading →

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