Brad Dierking is an experienced programmer, open source software proponent and avid reader of everything related to web development. Brad leverages 10 years of experience in the web development space to solve complex problems not only functionally, but elegantly. Whether the need is to build something custom, integrate with something proprietary or to bridge the gap to something legacy, Brad …
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WordPress Connect to Database from Outside File
If you are doing something custom on a wordpress site and just want to hit the database directly, outside of WordPress, this is the easiest way to do it. Simply include the wp-config.php file and them make a MySQL connection to the database using the variables contained inside the wp-config.php file. So an overly simplistic [...]
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goEmerchant XML Gateway API Code Example
I was not able to find any good example for processing credit cards through the goEmerchant XML Gateway API so I am sharing the simple way I did it recently using PHP. I hope this is at least enough to get someone unstuck someday. First thing we need to do is generate the XML that [...]
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Simultaneous Database Connections
Do you have a class or function that requires simultanous connections to different databases? There is a fourth parameter on mysql_connect fucntion, that if set to true will allow simultaneous database connections in php. Otherwise the database resource is only going to the last database you connected to. Add the fourth parameter like this: $link1 [...]