If you need to calculate distance in a web app, or maybe say something like “User1 lives approximately 2.1 miles from User2″ then you’ve had to do the math to calculate distances between zip codes. It’s a great pain. In the past I’ve always used this really great class from MicahCarrick called PHP Zip Code [...]

If you’re like me, you’ve fallen in love with CakePHP. It’s a tight bit of code that’s easy to use and once you have your application using it, easy to maintain and add new features. For my recent redesign of my freelance site www.systemsevendesigns.com I wanted to be able to display my 3 most recent [...]

There is a new version of Phoogle Maps available, and I hope that you’ll see that I’ve listened to you. Several people have emailed me or posted comments here concerning new features that they would like to have added. I do believe I’ve added them all.

Google Maps APIs are great, but you need to have longitude/latitude data of locations that you want to display. That’s the problem for me and for many others. Well in order to fix that I created what I call Phoogle Maps. Phoogle (pronounced like foogle) Maps is a PHP class that uses the nusoap libraries [...]

Pulling in $_POST or $_GET variables can be quite a pain sometimes, enter a handy built-in PHP function: extract()

One of the things that I find myself doing most often when creating a web app or even just a website using PHP/MySQL is formatting dates to the format that I want. It’s not hard to do but it gets annoying and repetative very quickly