Buy a Google Nexus 10 in the UK!
If you are looking to get a Google Nexus 10 inch tablet and are based in the UK you are in for a shocker!
The only place to buy it is at the Google …
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Let Joomla and MySQL interact!
I often need a quick and easy few lines to retrieve some data from MySQL using Joomla without all the MVC nonsense that usually goes about this topic. …
Read Article →Perform a Mysql Query using Joomla!
This is really actually meant for future reference for myself as lately I’ve been doing quite a lot of Joomla! mysql coding and have used the …
Read Article →Refresh User Data in Joomla
I was busy with a custom component in Joomla, and it stored it’s own user_details based off of the main users table, but if the details were …
Read Article →Extract email addresses from a string – PHP
Sometimes you need to extract multiple email addresses from a string and the following function will make all your dreams come true.
function …How to drive traffic to your website!
This is a very hot topic indeed.
Definitely one that everyone with a website should know all about.
To begin our journey we will look directly at the …
Read Article →jQuery limit fields to alphanumeric characters only
I was trying to restrict a form’s field from only allowing the user to enter alphanumeric characters into it. I looked all around and …
Read Article →Make a dynamic year dropdown using PHP
Ever wanted to have a dropdown that automatically showed the current year and the few years before it?
This is a quick and easy way to do exactly …
Read Article →Pad a string with zeros using PHP
Recently I had to create a code/username maker to fit into a certain type of pattern so that all “broker codes” (as they were called) …
Read Article →ImportError: No module named MySQLdb (Python)
Trying to use MySQL with Python and getting an ImportError?
This is likely because you have not installed it to the system. You can do this on …
Read Article →Search for “arabic” is url request and change codepage – ASP
If you are using Classic ASP (yuck) to create an arabic section of a website you can search for the arabic string in your Request URI and then change …
Read Article →Windows 7 is better than Ubuntu 12.04 on desktop!
Today we have finalised for ourselves that Windows 7 is definitely a “better” operating system than Ubuntu 12.04 when it comes to desktop …
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