CODEgrunt

• total geek trash, coder / troubleshooter for hire ($35/hour, feel free to ask for a quote)

skills: PHP, MySQL, Apache, Exim, Mailman, HTML/CSS/Javascript, UNIX (FreeBSD, Gentoo and Ubuntu), yada yada

details: have created shopping baskets and database driven online inventories, browseable realty databases, customer profile systems, course management systems, custom modules for existing applications, etc.

applications: have installed, written custom modules or solved problems for Joomla! / Mambo, VirtueMart, Gallery, osCommerce, phpBB, Drupal, TYPOlight, Wordpress, etc.

specialization: security auditing of existing applications, application research and recommendation, troubleshooting existing codebases, PHP4 to PHP5+ / MySQL 4 to 5+ migration, Apache log analysis (especially for security related issues), designing of custom applications with security in mind

education: computer engineering technologist diploma plus 13+ years IT experience (system administration, web programming, customer relations, etc.)

free PHP source code

• CAPTCHA generator class

This is a CAPTCHA generator class which uses only the built in PHP GD libraries to generate its image (i.e. no external fonts or exec calls required) so should be quite portable. It requires a MySQL database and also uses the MySQL class below.

Click here to try out a demo.

• simple template class

This is a simple template class which can be easily expanded and supports multiple templates (which is useful for having headers and footers for example). It can be used both to render to the browser and to render to a string (useful for email templates for example).

• MySQL class

A small PHP class which makes dealing with MySQL data a lot simpler (for me in any case). Returns all rows of result in an associative array with various other freebies thrown in (insert id, number of rows in result, etc.).

• credit card validator class

A small PHP class which checks the validity of a credit card number based on the luhn (mod10) check and also returns the card type (supports visa, mastercard, discover, dinersclub and amex).

• simple HTTP based authentication class

A small PHP class which performs HTTP based authentication based on a static password file in standard .htaccess format.

personal projects

• industrial.org

Active industrial music focussed community site. Uses my self-authored "thingy engine" content management system written a number of years ago.