Archive for the ‘PHP’ Category

Multiple File Uploads with XHR and PHP

Monday, October 25th, 2010

So the jQuery / Flash multiple file uploader has not really been working when it comes to heavy duty stuff “Flash player has crashed” is a common scenario after some six < 2MB pictures, problem is, it needs to be able to handle up to 50 of them. Therefore I decided to check out the HTML5 alternatives and eventually found a really good one. I did have to make some modifications however, to make the solution fit with my own scenario and I detail them below.... Read More

Hierarchical data with PHP and jQuery

Saturday, October 2nd, 2010
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Demo here (go ahead and submit the form as much as you like, it will keep pre-populating with the data you submit).... Read More

Migrating a Legacy Forum to vBulletin 4.0.3

Saturday, July 17th, 2010

Recently I’ve just finished migrating a custom forum to vBulletin, in doing this your mileage may vary, much of it depends on if the original forum was part of a bigger offering that should still exist, or if it was standalone. In my case the site is cardlovers.com, a poker rakeback site, where the new forum is located at cardlovers.com/forum... Read More

Memcached in PHP on Dapper

Monday, February 8th, 2010

What is Memcached and what is it good for?... Read More

Foreign relations with jQuery / PHP

Friday, January 29th, 2010
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Well that didn’t take long, unsurprisingly. I needed the interface to handle foreign relations, for this I would’ve liked to use conventions, for instance that all primary autoincrementing keys be named id. However the legacy database I’m working with won’t allow that, so we need configuration:... Read More

The basic C(R)UD

Sunday, January 10th, 2010
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I recently made a very simple but functional administrational interface using jQuery and Ajax to avoid having to refresh the page all the time thus simplifying development.... Read More

Multiple select lists with jQuery and JSON

Wednesday, December 9th, 2009

This tutorial will all be about managing loading data into multiple select lists and then save the selections in the list.... Read More

Solving memory limit exhausted in PHP

Friday, November 27th, 2009

This is the long walkthrough on how to fix this problem which is due to the fact that a too low memory limit is set in the PHP ini file.... Read More

JQuery Joomla chat, adding online/offline and friendlist

Sunday, November 8th, 2009

As the title implies we’ve now added online/offline functionality and the ability to toggle the user list to show only friends or all members.... Read More

The ugliest LISP in the world

Thursday, November 5th, 2009

There’s been a lot of discussion on whether Python, Ruby or insert your favorite dynamic language, is a good lisp.... Read More