User Role Editor 3.1 is published

June 3rd, 2011

User Role Editor

User Role Editor

Version 3.1 of User Role Editor WordPress plugin is published. New features are:
- add new capability box;
- delete unused capability (except core WordPress capabilities) box;
- assign capabilities direct to user additionally to the role assigned to him;
- PHP4 is not supported by this plugin anymore. Update your site to PHP5 in order to use this plugin and near to release WordPress 3.2 :)
- minor bugs and compatibility with other plugins fixes.
To get more information read these articles:
User Role Editor 3.1. Beta, User Role Editor WordPress Plugin

NetBeans 7.0 for PHP Waiting for Connection to XDebug

May 15th, 2011

NetBeans IDE 7.0 for PHP and XDebug

NetBeans IDE 7.0 for PHP and XDebug


Recently I met with one annoying thing during work on the small PHP programming task. My favorite IDE for PHP development NetBeans failed to connect to the PHP debug library xDebug. It just shows “NetBeans XDebug waiting for connection message’ in the status line for long time. See the example on the image below. What is going wrong? I tried to recall what I did recently with my box and what could be the reason of such a pity that I could not use more built-in NetBeans PHP debugger.
Yes, I installed system updates including (FireFox libraries) for my Ubuntu. Little earlier I moved to NetBeans for PHP 7.0. May be something wrong is in my setup? I raise accesible manuals, digged the Net, triple times re-checked depended settings. All of them were in the right state, but Ubuntu-Apache-PHP-NetBeans bundle still not allowed me to debug PHP scripts in the habitual, effective and convenient way. For any case I restarted Apache 1st, then reboot the whole system. Nothing helped.
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User Role Editor 3.1 Beta

May 15th, 2011

User Role Editor

User Role Editor


User Role Editor WordPress plugin version 3.1 is ready for beta testing. You are welcome! What new things are added to plugin functionality:
- add new capability box;
- delete unused capability (except core WordPress capabilities) box;
- assign capabilities direct to user additionally to the role assigned to him;
- minor bugs and compatibility with other plugins fixes.
I plan to publish it at wordpress.org plugins repository in a week or two period of beta testing.
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NetBeans IDE 7.0 Release Candidate 2 for PHP

April 17th, 2011

Netbeans IDE 70 RC2 for PHP

Netbeans IDE 70 RC2 for PHP

08 Apr 2011 NetBeans.org announced that NetBeans IDE 7.0 Release Candidate 2 is available for download. The last testing before the final release (it is planned for April) started. We talked about NetBeans IDE 7.0 here an ShinePHP.com already (check NetBeans posts list). I should make a little correction. I supposed in previous posts that Java 7 is required to install NetBeans IDE 7.0 for PHP. I was wrong. Java SE Development Kit (JDK) 6 Update 24 or later is required for that actually. To be more exact, the PHP NetBeans bundle requires the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 6 only to be installed and run.
NetBeans IDE 7.0 for PHP installation process for Linux users was described in details here already. It is straightforward and quite simple.
Let’s repeat in short, just to show a process screenshots for the new Release Candidate 2 version:
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Stealth Login WordPress Plugin Review

March 12th, 2011

Stealth Login WordPress Plugin

Stealth Login Plugin

Authors: skullbit, devbit
Plugin version: 1.3
WordPress versions: from 2.3 to 2.7.1 according to author’s information. I made my tests with WordPress 3.1, single.
What this plugin do?
It allows to customize URL for login, logout and register links. For example, it is possible to set login URL to "http://www.yourblog.com/login-wp-1870" instead of standard "/wp-login" one. As especially notable feature I wish to mark the so-called “Stealth mode”, which could be realized with the help of this plugin. It denies direct access to ‘wp-login.php’ script.
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Credit card fraud or hello from “Papal”

March 1st, 2011

Credit Card Fraud

Credit Card Fraud

Everyone met with spam emails. Everyone knows what to do with such noisy kind of mail – recycle bin is the right place for such messages. But some messages we read from time to time. And some of those dangerous messages we can accidentally trust.
My friends, I wish to pay your attention one more time. Again. Do not trust to emails which asks you send somewhere your passwords, credit card numbers, etc. Do not trust them, even if they looking very similar to messages you could receive from well known services.

I received such message this morning and want to show it to you. Just in order you know, how it could be masks.

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NetBeans IDE 7.0 Beta 2 for PHP

February 27th, 2011

NetBeans IDE 7.0 Beta 2

NetBeans IDE 7.0 Beta 2

The NetBeans team announced that NetBeans IDE 7.0 Beta 2 with PHP support is available for download. The Beta 2 build provides improved quality and performance with bug fixes.
Good news! The final release of NetBeans IDE 7.0 is planned for April 2011.
General description of updates and new features of NetBeans 7.0 for PHP is available in this post.
Here you can see road-map (with screen-shots) of Netbeans 7.0 installation process on Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid) box. Some useful links with information about NetBeans 7.0 for PHP and tutorials are available at the end of the post.
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