Here’s a couple of quick tips to connecting to a MSSQL 2005 server using PHP on a Windows webserver. You will need to enable the php_mssql.dll in your php.ini file. Here’s the code to connect to the server. <?php $conn = mssql_connect(‘my_server’, ‘db_username’, ‘db_password’); if (!$conn) { die(‘ERROR: Unable to connect to the database.’); }…
My cousin Ronald and I had a bet on the 2010 NBA Finals. The loser buys the winner a swingman jersey, wear it while making a video and read off a speech prepared by the winner. I lost but he didn’t want to write a speech is I had to make up what I had…
I’m using the jQuery plugin from http://bassistance.de/jquery-plugins/jquery-plugin-validation. The plugin is greate. I did run into a problem with arrays. Say your form has a group of checkboxes or radio buttons and their names are checkbox or radio. To have them be in the same group, their names have to be the same and to process…
I’ve been trying out the demo for Artisteer 2 and it’s great. Creating templates for popular CMS softwares such as WordPress, Joomla, and Drupal have never been easier. I’ve done some playing around with manually creating a WordPress template and it’s not too bad. The WordPress documentation is fairly easy to follow. But doing it…
At work we use iMacs for workstations but Windows for servers. There are some nuisance when sending files from OS X to Windows. Filename lengths, network connections, hidden files – just to name a few. In OS X, there are hidden files that start with ._ which become visible when viewed in Windows. It’s usually…