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Created a github repo for the Ansible / Vagrant setup I made for my site when I moved to VPS. Continue reading post "#1538"

With rebuilding my website with WordPress, I have made progress on the WordPress starter theme I've been working on. One thing I used for it was PHP's output buffering to control output and allow me to define "blocks" of content, then render them at a later point in their proper location. To this end, I created some helper methods to manage this for me and allow easy creating of named buffers. I got the idea for this from the slots of Symfony's PHP templating engine.

I have since broken this out of my WordPress theme helper classes into its own class and created a github repo, PHP-BufferManager to allow its use for generic purposes. This is a very simple repo and class. The most common way to use it would be to use $instance->start('name'); to start a buffer named 'name' and $instance->end(); to end it, then $instance->get('name'); at a later point to get the string value of the buffer for output or other purposes. A simple example:

A couple months ago I finally made my first repos on GitHub. It provides a goo…