There are several ways to include information from another website into my website. One of the easiest ways is using the iframe tag: <iframe src=”https://cindycullen.com”> Your browser doesn’t like iframes </iframe> The iframe tag will pull in the page and show it exactly like it would show that page in my browser window. It basically […]
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FirePHP is really an extension to an extension. You have to have the Firebug extension installed for FirePHP to work correctly. You also have to download and install the FirePHP class to your website. You can get the extension and learn all about it here. This extension allows me to write to the Firebug console
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Many times I would like to pass an object from my PHP code to Javascript or from Javascript to PHP. JSON and a couple of PHP and Javascript functions make that easy! JSON is JavaScript Object Notation. Basically, it’s a textual way to represent an object. To demonstrate, I will create a PHP object: <?php
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Before you can use a MySQL database in your scripts, you must let your script know which MySQL database you plan to use and how to connect to it. You will need to know the host computer where the database lives – usually localhost – and the username and password that will allow you to
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Once your website is up and running, it’s always nice to know how many people are visiting your site. It’s also nice to know where your visitors are from, which pages are are viewed the most, how people are finding your site, etc. There are several different site statistics tools that will help you do
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This is a PHP function that I wish I had known about earlier, so I thought it was worth a mention for today’s Daily Web Tip. parse_url is a function that breaks a url down into it’s parts. <?php print_r(parse_url(‘https://cindycullen.com/example/test.php?id=255#faq1’)) ?> Will give you: Array ( [scheme] => http [host] => cindycullen.com [path] => /example/test.php
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The purpose behind web pages is to share your information with the world! It’s hard to share that information if your web page is on your local computer. Even though, you *could* make your local computer accessible to the world and let people visit your web page on your local computer, it’s really not a
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PHP is a preprocessor which means that before your web page is loaded in someone’s browser, the server where the web page lives ‘pre-processes’ the web page. In other words, before the web page is delivered to the browser, the code for the page is first translated with the PHP translator on the server. To
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I tried to change the quota on an email account in cpanel this morning, but it kept giving me an ‘Invalid maildirsize’ error and wouldn’t let me change the quota. I did a little research and found my answer here. Basically the maildirsize file had gotten corrupt somehow. Deleting that file fixes the problem. The
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I used to set my background images with HTML. I realize that this way is deprecated – meaning that it is no longer a part of the HTML standard. But, since you may still see it done this way in old web pages, I want to include it here: <body background=”photo.jpg”> This may still work
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