I’ve been working with a couple of command line tasks over the last couple of days using PDO MySQL connections and ran across a problem where PHP on the command line could not connect to MySQL’s default socket. It’s a busy discussion on Google and there seem to be a lot of garbled listings when you google this so here’s my 2 quid.
I’ve been working on a site that requires a random banner to be selected from a list of banners. In this case the banners needed to be both manageable via the WordPress Admin and contain whichever media type the client should see fit to use. One of the new features in WordPress 3 allows you to add custom post types, which means you can create a banner post type to use as required. Read More
The Be Air Aware website was designed and build at Guerilla promoting a campaign for positive change in air quality in Tyne and Wear. Content management and usability were at the forefront of the project so the initial website was built into a WordPress installation. Read More
One of the most impressive ways to present content heavy site searches I’ve seen on the web is using dynamic search boxes that suggest results to you before you’ve even finished typing your search phrase, and it’s not a massive job to implement. Read More
The training branch of PASS required an on-line system that would allow them to streamline the management of their UK training centres. The website would need to offer lead generation and the opportunity for people to buy training courses directly from the website, along with a management back end to streamline every part of the admin process. Read More
The project brief set by Numark Ltd. called for 2 websites to be developed to allow the company to manage both their member facing and public facing presence from one single management portal. The core of this project was built on top of the GI-Edit modular CMS platform developed in house by Guerilla Interactive. The editorial structure within the company along with features including member publishing and resource tracking required a strong role based user management system to be implemented. Read More