All posts by foxbeefly

04Dec/19

Microsoft Word Mail Merge and Page numbering

04/12/2019Microsoft Officemail merge, page numbering, Wordfoxbeefly

I often use Microsoft Word’s Mail Merge feature to prepare long documents for Learners. I noticed that upon completion of the merge that the page numbering for the final, merged document wasRead More…

04Dec/19

HTML5

04/12/2019HTML5HTML5, jQuery, validationfoxbeefly

I decided to use the HTML5  <input> <datalist> on a View in my CakePHP project, and was super-surprised to see that there is no way of restricting the text in the <input>Read More…

04Dec/19

Swapping columns in a table in Microsoft Word document

04/12/2019Microsoft OfficeWordfoxbeefly

If you need to swap the columns in a table in Microsoft Word document, select a column and drag it to a new position. Select the left-most column (black arrow, left-click select verticallyRead More…

23Nov/15

Mutually exclusive checkboxes

23/11/2015JavaScriptcheckbox, JavaScriptfoxbeefly

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…

19Nov/15

Zebra-striping table using CSS3

19/11/2015CSSCSS3, nth-child()foxbeefly

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.

19Nov/15

PHP short tags

19/11/2015PHPPHP, php.ini, short_open_tag, syntaxfoxbeefly

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…

19Nov/15

How to Disable Directory Browsing in WordPress

19/11/2015WordPress.htaccess, WordPressfoxbeefly

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…

19Nov/15

PHP CLI “Hello World”

19/11/2015PHPCLI, Hello World, PHPfoxbeefly

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…

18Nov/15

PHP dynamic year selector

18/11/2015PHPdate(), PHPfoxbeefly

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…

12Nov/15

PHP / MySQL: storing database credentials in an .ini file

12/11/2015PHP.ini, MySQL, parse_ini_file(), PDO, PHP, securityfoxbeefly

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…