I’ve been using Zurb Foundation for a few weeks now and am pretty much sold on it. I love having all that robust functionality at my fingertips and the ease with which I can create a responsive website with particular attention to… Read More »Zurb Foundation Sixteen Column Tweak
I recently built a mobile friendly website using a responsive CSS framework. This worked great and it all fluidly slid into place on various devices. However, in order to reduce the load time on the mobile version I also used a mobile… Read More »Codeigniter caching models not views
When you have a checkbox in a form you set the value that is passed to the form processing script in the value field of the checkbox element. What always catches me out is that if there is no check… Read More »Dealing with checkboxes in PHP
This may come as a shock to some of you but eBay does have an official policy on the sale of atomic / nuclear weapons. Yes, it seems the World is a safer place as eBay categorically states no atom… Read More »Nuclear weapons not allowed on eBay
The PHP framework Codeigniter has out of the box form validation which is pretty easy to implement. It requires code in 2 places; 1.) the form HTML in the view and 2.) the controller. The view In the view you… Read More »Form validation in Codeigniter
The problem: You want your WordPress post to appear in more than one category, e.g. PHP and WordPress OK, that’s not a problem. However, the article is primarily about WordPress but for some reason the permalink insists on it being under… Read More »WordPress: Setting post permalink when using multiple categories
As part of my recent security drive on my dedicated server I installed Fail2Ban. The premise of this software is fairly simple which is always good. Fail2Ban basically scans log files for errors, e.g. your FTP access log file to… Read More »Getting Fail2Ban working on Centos 6
Quick and easy code to convert the character set of a MySQL table to UTF-8. Of course this works for all character sets not just UTF ALTER TABLE tbl_name CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;
As I have around 5,000 photos online – some of which I like to think are quite good! – inevitably they find their way onto other people’s websites. Generally speaking I allow use of my photos provided they are credited… Read More »Copyright infringement on photos
Just a quick reminder and example to myself really for this useful MySQL string function. Syntax: REPLACE( table_field, search, replace) Example (replaces all instances of donkey with horse: UPDATE `table` SET `table_field` = REPLACE( `table_field`, ‘donkey’, ‘horse’)