Category archive: php

Snap Preview Anywhere contest 0

February 26, 2007   php, work

I’ve spent the past couple of weeks at work building a web application for Snap’s latest contest and it just went live at contest.snap.com. It allows users to submit ideas (for new features for a product) and lets them do some simple Digg-style voting.

The concept is very similar to the last Snap contest but it’s now a standalone web application (instead of a half dozen hacky Wordpress plugins). The site is actually a heavily-modified version of my message board software that runs omgtru.com.

GD TTF PCDTR in PHP 2

October 8, 2006   internet, php, ubuntu

I’d been having a lot of trouble getting my Ubuntu machine to render TTFs with GD in PHP. So much trouble that I’d even tried crazy things like recompiling PHP. Luckily I found this post on excitris.com and I was able to solve all of my problems with one line of code. Since the code on their site is completely mangled, here it is:

putenv('GDFONTPATH=' . realpath('.'));

Now I can use dynamic text replacement without going insane.

My name is Joey Nelson. I'm a web developer living in Raleigh, NC and working with Node.js, MongoDB, Ruby, PHP, jQuery and some other stuff. More about me.