Tag: php
01/15/2018
WordPress Woocommerce plugin to disable payment methods based on zip or postal codes
Hello! Woocommerce is a great easy-to-implement and versatile e-commerce platform. With the robust development community, expanding the core functionality can be relatively straight forward with the availability of a wide assortment of 3rd party plugins for Woocommerce. One of the things that we felt was missing, but a simple requirement, was the ability to manipulate […]
11/18/2016
How to create asynchronous non-blocking queued jobs in WordPress
Hello! One of the projects that we are currently working on is a WordPress plugin that integrates with the Toronto Real Estate Board to pull new listings from their systems and import them into WordPress as posts. The mechanics required to connect to TREB are very basic. One might call TREB’s systems out of date. […]
04/26/2016
How to create a heatmap layer on Google Maps using JQuery and PHP
Hello! There was a scenario not too long ago where we were required to create a heatmap layer on top of a Google map to plot latitude/longitude coordinates. I thought I’d share the process through which we pull the coordinate data from a MySQL database and plot it into the google map as a heatmap […]
03/26/2015
Tips to secure your WordPress site
Security is a huge deal. Sometimes your at the mercy of the open source solution or content management system that you choose. There are occasions that even after ensuring your CMS and the subsidiary plugins are consistently up to date, you still fall mercy to a zero day exploit that circumvents the security of your […]
02/13/2015
Detect facial features in your images and modify them in real time with Jquery, Javascript, CSS and PHP
Hello! A few weeks ago we wrote a post that detailed how you could leverage PHP, Javascript and jQuery to detect facial features in images. In this post we will detail how you can take the detection of facial features and modify the image in real time with CSS and jQuery. You can read the […]
01/30/2015
Detecting faces in your images with PHP , Javascript and jQuery
Hello! In some scenarios with web application development it may be necessary to be able to detect the facial features of a photo. For example an application that detects how many people are in a picture, or perhaps an app that modifies the faces of the people in a photo. Whether you’re making a mobile […]
01/15/2015
Creating custom post types and pulling them into a custom page template in WordPress
Hello! Occasionally in WordPress it is necessary to push, what is primarily a blogging content management system, to its limits in order to create a dynamic website. The reason why it may be necessary to create a custom wordpress post type is in just that scenario where you need to create custom and dynamic types […]
11/12/2014
Convert text to an image with Javascript and HTML5
Hello! Working with frameworks like Django and with CMS’ like Drupal and WordPress we come across a wide variety of requirements for manipulating, sanitizing and importing data from all different sources and formats. Recently we had the requirement to take a text field that was defined in a Django model and convert that text string […]
11/09/2014
Drupal Problem : An AJAX HTTP request terminated abnormally
Hello! Recently we had a tricky problem with Drupal 7 and manipulating content. Our content types and content in general for a particular Drupal site has grown significantly. Ajax queries in Drupal Adding and removing content such as images or gallery items requires an Ajax query that polls the database. These queries, once your database […]
10/29/2014
Make your own custom WordPress shortcode for pulling category posts
Hello! WordPress is a great entry level CMS that has a vibrant and extensive development community with many free plugins and offerings to help extend your web installation significantly. Once in a while , either with a significant WordPress update or for other reasons, the default plugins wont cut it. Sometimes when you seemingly want […]
