http://www.andrewgoodricke.com More than meets the eye... Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:41:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Three Peaks On Friday 9th October 2009, I will be attempting the Three Peaks Challenge with three friends.  The aim is to climb the highest peaks in Scotland, England and Wales (Ben Nevis, Scafell Pike & Snowdon) over a three day period.  We'll be climbing Ben Nevis on the Friday, Scafell on the ... http://www.andrewgoodricke.com/2009/09/3-peaks-3-days/ Here's one for you Sukie... The php function date_add ( DateTime $object , DateInterval $interval ) is an experimental function and shouldn't really be used in a production site.  The way to get around this is to use strtotime ( string $time [, int $now ] ). If you're trying to add a week to today's date you can simply do the following: $new_date = strtotime("+1 week"); but if need ... http://www.andrewgoodricke.com/2008/12/php-date-add-alternative-to-date_add/ Over the weekend I took some friends to Wembury as they were down visiting, I'd not been before but I'd heard it was a nice spot so gave me a great oportunity to head over there to have a look around.  Here's a selection of the pictures I took using ... http://www.andrewgoodricke.com/2008/09/photography-at-wembury/ I've been working with Ajax recently, I've been particularly impressed with how potentially powerful Ajax is.  Having a good knowledge of PHP and HTML myself has helped when it came to learning this amalgamation of technologies.  If you're not aware what Ajax is, It stands for Asynchronous JavaScript And XML ... http://www.andrewgoodricke.com/2008/08/ajax-loading-animated-gif/ I've used mod_rewrite quite a lot with Code Igniter and I've experienced issues getting it working to remove the index.php from the url on different servers before but this was another issue again. Here's my resolution and some of my previous resolutions: Here's the contents of the .htaccess for Heart ... http://www.andrewgoodricke.com/2008/07/code-igniter-mod_rewrite-on-heart-internet/