Twofold impetus: a problem with the internal P2 microblog at work when people like me left their browsers open for long periods, and the fact that I access too many WordPress blogs from too many different computers for the 2 week “Remember Me” timeout to be convenient enough. Cranking it up to 22 years!

The WordPress documentation is pretty great BTW.

And it was a little bit interesting to run in to the Year 2038 problem with 32-bit int timestamps.  I don’t know, it was fun working around the  ”infinity” ceiling:

  if ( PHP_INT_MAX - time() < $expire_in ) {
    $expire_in =  PHP_INT_MAX - time() - 5;
  }

So it’s been secretly irking me for a while that although I installed the very nice WP-Syntax code highlighting plugin for this WordPress blog, it was hard to get it to display things in reverse-video like I prefer for all my terminal and text editor windows, and like I love in the online Symfony documentation. It’s just nicer on the eyes, you know? Digging in, I found the GeSHI syntax highlighter to be impressive in scope but scary in its inline-style-generating detail.

So today, to solve the problem for more than just me, I published my very first WordPress plugin, wp-syntax-hacktify. Very educational! I like the plugin system at wordpress.org.

The plugin tells GeSHI to use stylesheets instead and provides a slightly more commented/documented stylesheet as an example for if you’d like to override it with your own color scheme.

So now my code samples can be all nicer and stuff, like this:

  /**
   * Print a string to the log using 'debug' level.  For printf-style
   * debugging.
   *
   * @param      string $m      The string to log
   * @return     nothing
   */
  public static function debug ($m) {
    if (sfConfig::has('sf_logging_enabled') && sfConfig::get('sf_logging_enabled'))
      {
        if ($logger = sfContext::getInstance()->getLogger()) {
          $logger->debug($m);
        }
      }
    elseif (sfConfig::has('bhLDAP_echo_debugging') && sfConfig::get('bhLDAP_echo_debugging'))
      {
        echo "# $m\n";
      }
    else
      {
//      echo $m;
      }
  }
 
  /**
   * Dump a data structure to the log at the 'debug' level.  Uses
   * print_r() formatting.
   *
   * @param      mixed $v         The variable/data structure to dump
   * @param      string $label    An optional label to print in front of the dump
   * @return     nothing
   */
  public static function debugDump ($v, $label = "var dump") {
    self::debug("$label:  " . print_r($v, true));
  }

Now the code on my blog can look nice even if it’s terrifically hacky!