In this post, I’ll explain how to reduce the amount of comment spam your WordPress blog receives by using an unobtrusive ‘handshake’ between the two files necessary for a valid comment submission to take place. I’ve written a few different articles on reducing comment spam by means of a challenge response test that the [...]

This is a collection of php code snippets that seem to come in handy rather often. They are assembled here more for my own organization than anything else.
String: trim and convert to lowercase
A very straightforward but useful snippet. A string is first trimmed of any leading or trailing white space, and then converted [...]

I was getting a 500 error when trying to submit a form mail from my web site via GoDaddy’s gdform.cgi. I turned on error logging and this is what showed up:
SoftException in Application.cpp:624: Could not execute script “/home/content/a/r/d/ardamis/html/cgi/gdform.cgi”
Caused by SystemException in API_Linux.cpp:430: execve() for program “/home/content/a/r/d/ardamis/html/cgi/gdform.cgi” failed: Permission denied
[Sun Dec 2 01:34:05 2007] [...]