Category Archives: PHP

Downright Slippery Time

Posted on 20 September, 2007 by Veronica Yuill

Want to add one (or more) days to a date in PHP? Timestamps are simply numbers of seconds, so it seems so easy and obvious to do this: $mydate = (60*60*24)+$mydate; or even just $mydate = 86400+$mydate; Don’t be tempted! … Continue reading →

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Scriptaculous without Javascript

Posted on 15 May, 2007 by Veronica Yuill

Scriptaculous is one of the better-known Javascript/AJAX libraries, with useful built-in objects for adding Web 2.0 functionality to your pages. I’ve tinkered with it but hadn’t found a real-life application for it until I needed to allow a client to … Continue reading →

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Neat tricks with Oracle

Posted on 19 November, 2006 by Veronica Yuill

The task: provide a neat hierarchical tree as a web interface to a project management system where any project might have a variable number of sub-projects. A tree structure in other words. So I ended up with this: ID Project … Continue reading →

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Bound to succeed

Posted on 20 September, 2006 by Veronica Yuill

I’ve been developing websites with PHP for about 5 years now and I blush to confess that I have only just discovered I can use bind parameters with SQL, instead of painstakingly building up my SQL statements by concatenating strings, … Continue reading →

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Saying no to spammers

Posted on 3 March, 2006 by Veronica Yuill

These days practically every website has a “contact us” form allowing visitors to send email to the site owner without exposing the recipient’s email address to the world. Lately I’ve been investigating ways that spammers can hijack these forms to … Continue reading →

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