Polypore Fungus

A polypore fungus from a year ago: possibly Antrodia albida.

Photo taken in the Wilderness, Whiteknights Park, Reading University grounds, Reading, UK, on 2010-01-13.

PHP Error Message

Yesterday I got this strange error PHP message:

PHP Parse error:  syntax error, unexpected ')', expecting T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM in /home/tristram/Desktop/stream-test-3/stream.php on line 25

Normally they are all in English.

See here for an explanation.

Crust Fungus

A wrinkled crust fungus growing on a birch stump.  Possibly Phlebia rufa, a pallid relation of the colourful Phlebia radiata.

Photo taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading University grounds, Reading, UK, on 2011-01-22.

CodeIgniter from Scratch: Searching Data without Query Strings

A Nettuts+ video by Burak Guzel on a subject area that I have been working on recently.  I found the video interesting and it contains lots of ideas that I could use, but I have a couple of points:

• Keeping query strings in the database doesn't look all that scalable.  You are committed to keeping every query string ever used, forever, if you want your URI's to be permanent.
• The set of movies on a given page will change if movies can be added or deleted from the database, so your URIs will not permanently specify a particular page of movies.  This problem also applies to most pagination systems, I think.

Still, the video is very good, as is the whole CodeIgniter from Scratch series, and I would recommend them to anyone interested in CodeIgniter.

Pink and White Fungus

A fungus, probably Cylindrobasidium evolvens (= Cylindrobasidium laeve).

A month later, at the other end of the Wilderness, I came across the following which is probably the same species at another stage of development.

Photos taken in the Wilderness, Whiteknights Park, Reading University grounds, Reading, UK, on 2010-12-10 and 2011-01-15 respectively.