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 …
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Function split() is deprecated in PHP
You heard it right! split() is officially a deprecated function. That means that you can still use it if you are really brave and it will work …
Read Article →Disable Cache in jQuery
I usually run into this problem when dealing with good ol’ Internet Explorer (..any version of IE actually).
The problem is that IE tries to be …
Read Article →Where is Technology heading, perhaps we should focus more on Software?
I often wonder to myself where the technology industry is heading as I see new things come out almost daily.
You look around and something you just …
Read Article →How to break out of an iframe
So someone’s trying to make their site better by opening a page on your site inside of their site using an iframe?
They’re doing something …
Read Article →Edit hosts file on Windows 7
The hosts file is used to manually alter the hostname or IP address in place of it being served by a Nameserver, also known as via DNS.
The hosts file …
Read Article →(EAI 2)Name or service not known: Could not resolve host name *.80 — ignoring!
You are no doubt trying to add a vhost and you get the following error when attempting to affect changes by restarting the http daemon (httpd):
(EAI …
Read Article →Virgin Media blocks torrent sites!
Virgin Media have done it again! They have gone and started a “downloaders war”, I’m sure of it.
Basically what happened is that …
Read Article →How to Comment out a line in a Crontab on Linux
Firstly let’s just note that crontabs are read in the following way:
* * * * * command to be executed
- - - - -
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| | | | +----- day of …DateTime conversion function using PHP
It’s really very simple to convert times in different timezones using the following function.
function dateTimeConversion($datetime, …Convert seconds to days, hours, minutes, seconds in PHP
With the following function you can easily convert an integer containing seconds to a nice days, hours, minutes, seconds string or array.
function …Remove dotted outline around anchors
This has become quite a common question asked by many website owners.
“How do I remove that dotted outline around an anchor?”
Lucky for …
Read Article →Get amount of hours between 2 hours
If you would like to get the amount of hours between 10:00 and 12:00 then use this!
I needed this for a timesheet calculator where users entered start …
Read Article →How to embed HTML5 video with fallback
A common question with the rise of HTML5 becoming more and more common and the whole iGeneration (iPhones/iPads/iEtc) is “how can I embed a …
Read Article →How to backup all mysql databases
In order to backup all mysql databases, you can run the following command in your linux command line:
The example below is configured with username …
Read Article →Invalid command 'RewriteEngine'
If you receive the following error message if means that mod_rewrite is not enabled in Apache:
Invalid command ‘RewriteEngine’, perhaps …
Read Article →How to get the Hours Difference (in HH:MM format) in PHP
It’s very simple to get the difference in hours using PHP. Here’s a quick function that takes two time strings and returns the difference: …
Read Article →Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach()
A common error which occurs with foreach loops is the standard “Invalid argument supplied for foreach()” whch gets thrown up as a warning. …
Read Article →Unable to connect to any of the specified MySQL hosts.
If you get the following error while trying to connect to a MySQL database using a third party client such as TOAD or SQL Workbench, then you need to …
Read Article →PHP nl2br on one line
I usually store data from a textarea directly to the database as is, then once I retrieve it back into HTML I use that lovely PHP function nl2br() to …
Read Article →LEN in MySQL
Coming from SQL Server or MS Access? You might be looking for LEN() to get the length of a string. In MySQL, it’s called LENGTH() instead.
You …
Read Article →Remove all linebreaks in PHP
If you are having problems with a string that keeps adding a line break when output from PHP to HTML then the following code will work wonders for …
Read Article →IE9 adding empty table cells in large table
Well as usual, we are once again fighting the woes of the beloved Internet Explorer, and it appears that Microsoft’s latest greatest new and …
Read Article →SELECT Duplicate Items Using SQL
If you have a table which has duplicate items in then you can use the below statement to select them.
This comes up a lot during data cleanup — maybe …
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