Sometimes it’s just not worth arguing. Super quick and nasty solution to a request for checkboxes that are mutually exclusive: one or no checkboxes can be selected. I know, I know; radioRead More…
I love that CSS3 allows zebra-striping of tables using the nth-child() selector. The nth-child() selector can be a number, a keyword, or a formula.
Another post from the archives: I am running a WAMP development environment at home and at work. I am always looking for new ways to fine-tune my set-up. Here is one… TheRead More…
I got my Google Mobilegeddon report and noticed that it had flagged all the wp-content directory pages of my WordPress blog. Which should not have been available on the web at all.Read More…
I have only recently begun working with PHP CLI scripts. Executing PHP scripts from the command line is fairly easy and you require no extra knowledge to create a basic script. AsRead More…
Another post from the archives After 2009 rolled in and all our sites failed to follow suite because “someone” hard-coded the years – but only up to 2008 – I quickly hadRead More…
It is recommended that you do not include database connection details in your scripts, so where exactly do you store them? Luckily, PHP has the handy function parse_ini_file() specifically for this task.Read More…
So I started out with the Getting Started for PHP on the Heroku site in my efforts to get into the cloud. The step-by-step guide on the Heroku site is fairly straightRead More…
I lost all my content when the blog got hacked and my hosting company could not restore it. I have subsequently unearthed a heap of old posts (that had sync’d to Facebook as Notes).Read More…
I got stuck writing a query for Firebird today. And here I was thinking that SQL was a standard — if only the “S” were for “Standard”… I was busy writing scripts atRead More…