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HYGEN Blog Posts In The ‘Web Design’ Category
WYSIWYG: The version of TinyMCE could not be detected
Sunday, February 21st, 2010
There is a bug currently in the WYSIWYG module for Drupal affecting TinyMCE which seems to be in the queue for patching into the stable release.
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PHP – Load Plain Text CSV Data Into MySQL / Convert CSV To MySQL
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
For a while now, possibly like many other developers, I’ve been coding in PHP using CSV related functions such as fgetcsv() and explode(). This usually works out fine until you want to read data from a CSV file and the store the data inside a MySQL database. Using mysql_query inside a loop is not fun for your servers processor!
As usual, the best way to do things when it comes to PHP & MySQL is to wherever possible get MySQL to do most of the work. Here is an example PHP script for effectively converting a CSV format database into a MySQL table. It presumes you already have a working connection and have selected a database.
Use PHP To Backup All MySQL Databases On A Server
Thursday, December 10th, 2009
Here is a useful PHP script I worte for doing web based MySQL backups. You could integrate this code into some kind of admin web app. As it is, keep in mind security – don’t put this code up publicly on your server unless you want to share all of your MySQL data!
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New Site: Destiny Lounge & Guest House, Tanzania
Saturday, December 5th, 2009
The Destiny Lounge Bar & Guest House offers contemporary and innovative foods and cocktails with an international flavor. All the Rooms are self containers and equipped with full air condition, TV and DVD player, the room services are available throughout the Lounge bar’s opening hours.
3 Newbie Mistakes – Web Design / Development Myths
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009
Here is a quick look at three different myths that can land budding newbie web designers / developers in hot water later down the line. If these myths are busted earlier on newbies can graduate on to producing excellent results faster without suffering the painful learning curves. Web design is not a new job – it’s tried, tested and mature so wheels don’t need re-inventing and mistakes don’t need repeating. Newbies – read and enjoy!
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Spin2u Dimiliki Oleh HYGEN
Saturday, October 3rd, 2009
Spin2u menyediakan produk terbaik dan plan perniagaan hebat buat anda mencapai kejayaaan. Sertai kami untuk membebaskan diri anda dari beban kewangan.
Selain daripada web dagang Spin2u beliau juga merupakan pangasas minyak angin 7G dan pembesih wanita sayang.
Install CURL To Work With PHP On Windows Server 2003 (IIS6)
Friday, October 2nd, 2009
cURL is a command line tool for transferring files with URL syntax, supporting FTP, FTPS, HTTP, HTTPS, SCP, SFTP, TFTP, TELNET, DICT, LDAP, LDAPS and FILE. curl supports SSL certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP uploading, HTTP form based upload, proxies, cookies, user+password authentication (Basic, Digest, NTLM, Negotiate, kerberos…), file transfer resume, proxy tunneling and a busload of other useful tricks.Follow these steps to download and install cURL to work with PHP on IIS6 (Windows Server 2003)…
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Google Wave Puts Pressure On Microsoft By Dropping Support For IE
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009
Finally more and more tech companies and developers are dropping support for Microsoft’s Internet Explorer web browser. Latest to stab the knife in is Google’s Wave. According to Google:
Google Wave runs in most browsers, with the notable exception of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE). Users of IE will have to download a plug-in, known as Chrome Frame to use the application.
Microsoft does not recommend installing this plug-in, claiming it compromises security.
Free Live Premiership Football Scores Widget For Your Web Site Or Blog
Sunday, September 27th, 2009
Want to show free live premiership football scores on your web site or blog? Simply copy and paste the HTML code below!KDE: Use KLinkStatus (KDEWebDev) To Spider A Site To Check For Broken Links
Friday, September 25th, 2009
KLinkStatus is a handy web spider program is part of the KDEWebDev suite of applications. KDELinkStatus can recursively follow and check links (both internal and external) in a web site.
Once the spidering is completed you can then export the results as an HTML report so that broken links can easily be spotted and then fixed.
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