You had the <input type=”file” /> in place, however it just doesn’t seem to be uploading at all at the client side. After choosing a rather big file, the form submission and page reload finish in seconds, what’s wrong? Well, it’s almost certain that you have forgotten something. Try adding property enctype to <form>: <form …
Creating a rather simple custom CMS on my client’s server, everything seems ok until I start testing out some of my ready made proprietary PHP classes. The problem is that I make things in PHP5 and all the classes are in PHP5 format. Quickly searched and scanned through some old tutorials for PHP4 about creating …
Scratching your head for a mystic error in your SQL query? No matter how you look into it, it just seems right and should by the God’s name work as you have wished. But it doesn’t and keeps pumping out annoying SQL syntax errors. Don’t panic, I have a few tips on this that might …
PayPal is by far the most popular international merchant service. The newest update of their policies is carried out through the end of last year, 2008, and a lot of provisions are effective ever since. Some of the key points include: You may not use PayPal service for prohibited activities involving gambling, gaming and/or any …
Alexa, the traffic company under Amazon is now releasing the top sites ranking data free. Updated daily, it’s currently the most authoritative top sites ranking data by traffic you can find on the Web. Download the list here. It presents the 1 million sites most visited around the globe. Other than Alexa, you can also …
Privacy policy? You don’t have privacy anyway. Well that’s just a saying about how you can never be private on Internet as it’s always possible to digg out who you are in real life by bits and pieces you left about yourself everywhere on the Web. Reverse domain tool comes handy when you want to …
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Trace route (command) is a common network diagnostic tool to debug network problems or check how data is passed through the whole network through all different kinds of computers, routers and such. A visual trace route tool, however, draws the data passage in illustrative diagrams or on a map for visionary perception graphically. You Get …
DreamHost is soon going to be offering absolutely free WordPress hosting! It comes with all possible managed features and with Google Apps pre-installed with your chosen domain — which can be xxx.dreamhosters.com or your own top level .com. Actually there’s more than just WordPress. With every free hosting account, you have WordPress, Drupal, ZenPhoto, phpBB, …
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String is probably the most used data type in PHP as it is a templating language in nature. PHP string counts for a big part of your coding. Not to mention most of us use PHP to do what it does the best — serving web pages, involving a lot of strings all the way. …
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PHP Arrays are collections of items identified and ordered by index. Array length is just the number of elements it contains. For an array: <?php $greetings = array( ‘Good morning!’, ‘Good afternoon!’, ‘Good evening!’ ); ?> The length of array in PHP code above is simply the number of strings contained in it, in this …
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As per HTTP protocol specifications, client browsers send http post requests in two-step processes: 1) send the headers, 2) send the data. Therefore, for websites with high volume traffic, it’s definitely preferable to choose GET method for AJAX requests over HTTP, because all it takes for GET to get out is a URL request, which …
CSS Sprites is a popular way to reduce image requests to the server and hovering lag to load another background image cased by network latency. Jenny has also devised a technique for foreground image CSS sprinting by Extending CSS Sprites which in essence bears all the merits of the original CSS Sprites method. Basic concept …
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Without using any javascript, this is the simplest way to make css hover works on tr and td in tables across browsers including IE. IE is known for not implementing generic hover effect for HTML tags other than <a>, however by the help of a bit of spice, we can make it to happen on …
Does anybody know that it’s a perfect wave of how the month names would look like if aligned left vertically? December January February March April May June July August September November December January Creepy, huh! (wink wink) 😀
Dustin Diaz made an interesting discovery to trigger “standards mode” with just a tiny little declaration instead of the regular lengthy one we see everywhere. As opposed to “standard mode“, there’s this “quirks mode” in IE that accommodates legacy HTML code of no standards at all — rendering them in many different ways compared with …
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This tiny little tutorial is meant for SEO beginners. Just for instance, if you never heard of what a seed list is or how to do keyword research, you are one. Keyword seed list is a list of keywords you gather for further keyword research which may very well contain thousands of related keywords about …
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If you are using tables entirely for page layout, I just have 2 tips for you. The first one is that: Don’t rely on rowspan or colspan. Especially on pages with potential to get rather long or wide by the help of some elongated table cell with rowspan or colspan. Things might very possibly go …
<center></center> as well as the property align=”center” used to be the tag that centers everything inside. However, it’s not the right way to do the centering in HTML at all. Let me show you the correct way in CSS to center something on the page. Let’s say you have a page wrapper that wraps a …
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As we all know that with a style rule of width or height, an element gains hasLayout in Internet Explorer and it triggers the IE proprietary rendering algorithm. Though this trick solves many weird problems in IE, especially IE6, it does come with a few issues as well. For example, when you need a top …
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As I’m a mainlander Chinese, I can only speak for those computers and browsers who live in central P.R.China. If you are making a design for or in Mandarin Chinese, especially Simplified Chinese, beside those common English web safe fonts such as Arial and Verdana shipped in MS Windows by default that 95% mainlander Chinese …
