By Woody | August 18, 2008
…don’t do it its a pain in the arse! mysql should do the job for all php projects up to a certain level..
As users catch up with browser versions this wont be an issue but with everyone so javascript paranoid its nice to have a fallback noscript Pure CSS menu in the wings. This is an excellent example.
Captcha’s – if you hadn’t realised have been pretty much anhilated by some good coding. Only the most screwed up of charectors now prove too difficult to crack programattically or by using a paid slave labour solution. The world of real human form submission never stood a chance.
One of the 50-100 most useful web relative statistics is a websites alexa ranking. This fantastic alexa rank finder in php does what it says on the tin.
Code.Google strikes again – Protocol Buffers
Lisp the programming languange not the speech impediment!
Thought I had already posted the fantastic Open Source Flash Charts but apparently not! – Also FusionCharts are good but only if you want to spend a few hundred pounds.
By Woody | August 17, 2008
Its always the most obvious and useful ones I forget..
PSPad (Supreme text editor for everything from hex to html to js to asp to everything else)
FileZilla (you need nothing else for anything ftp)
XAMPP (Apache web server in a tiny exe – includes filezilla ftp server – very useful)
By Woody | August 14, 2008
Seems like all i do these days is make things appear and dissapear with javascript!
But who can beat a bit of AJAX in a nice modal box eh?
Messing with images after the page loads with Javascript can be the most strait forward way of doing things, although it does lead to the end user needing the js to be on. Can reduce server loading times but also can make images slightly less crisp in my experience.
Still…Javascript image manipulation
<lateR> theres also this