Earlier today a client requested I change the output of their lead form to split the “full name” entry into “first name” and “last name”. My initial thought was to use a Regular Expression (RegExp) to match the parts of the string for my UPDATE query…
I looked around on the web for a while trying to find an example of what I was trying to do. Some were close, but none performed the JOIN portion of the query and on the same table from the SELECT portion (self referencing). So, here is the code I used to created a sub-category only dropdown using the parent categories as the optgroup labels.
Well, if you’re here you most likey are not getting any data from your FormMail script in the email you received. The problem is that dthetre’s script expects register_globals to be turned on. Since PHP4, most installations have register_globals turned off. This means your script will not work unless the feature is enabled. Most hosts are not likely to enable this feature (we’re one of them).
So here’s a quick workaround for the script. Add this code right after the header section of the script (before “// for ultimate security, use this instead of using the form”).
CODE UPDATED – SEE BELOW
When developing an html form, there are many occassions where you might want to disable Mozilla’s or Internet Explorer’s auto-complete feature. This may be for credit card payment or login forms. Whatever your case may be, the following code will disable autocomplete in a form element.
First let me say that the guys over at Media Layer did a great job with (D)DoS-Deflate.
We installed the utility by following their installation instructions on the above linked page. We made on modification to the script by lowering the number of connections allowed to 50 thinking it would be acceptable for normal traffic. Shortly after, we were locked out of our own server… duh. After rebooting our DSL modem to get a new IP address, we quickly logged in and reverted to the suggested count of 150. From our experience, take the advice of the team that wrote the script 😉
The notification emails starting coming through letting us know when IP addresses were being blocked because they had more than 150 connections to our server at one time. After which we noticed the script was reporting the connection count as both the count and IP address.
I recently had the need to redirect one query string to another query string. The reason for this was we created a new item in our Zen Cart software that took the place of 3 other items. To make sure the search engines and our visitors reached the new product instead of the old ones, the following code was used to redirect them accordingly.
The following code is how you would mass-update a single field in a MySQL table with a string prepended and appended to the field’s existing value.
Throughout my search for the best CSS tab strip, I have finally developed what I consider to be the smallest HTML/CSS footprint to achieve the desired results. Check out the code below. If you decide to use this code, please include a link back here from your site to help others find the same solution you found helpful.
Earlier today, one of our hosting customers notified me that there Urchin stats stopped reporting traffic around the beginning of May. Of course my first questions was “why did you wait until now to tell me?” After which I started Googling the problem. I found the solution regarding How do I recover from ‘Unable to open database for writing since it has been archived’ error?.