Have a database bigger than 2MB? want to import them somewhere else? but you cant and PHPmyAdmin just gave you the dead end message below?

No data was received to import. Either no file name was submitted, or the file size exceeded the maximum size permitted by your PHP configuration. See FAQ 1.16.

Have no fear, there’s a solution:

Look for the php.ini file -> c:/wamp/www/apache2/bin/php.ini

Then change the following lines:

post_max_size = 8M
upload_max_filesize = 2M
max_execution_time = 30
max_input_time = 60
memory_limit = 8M

To these new values:

post_max_size = 100M
upload_max_filesize = 100M
max_execution_time = 5000
max_input_time = 5000
memory_limit = 100M

Then restart wamp5 and retry importing…

Happy coding

What’s a webserver directory index anyway?

When an HTTP client (generally a Web browser) requests a URL that points to a directory structure instead of an actual Web page within the directory, the Web server will generally serve a general page, which is often referred to as a main or “index” page.

Most often index.html or index.php are used by developers, but we can set it to any file we want to with the help of .htaccess

on your .htaccess file write:

DirectoryIndex home.html

Above code is just telling that I want the file home.html be by default index page.

but you can also do this:

DirectoryIndex home.html index.html index.php

Above is telling the server that to use home.html as my default index page and if not use index.html else use index.php and so on…

So that’s it, fairly easy…

If you want to see the error page in theme design and don’t like redirecting to error page URL or duplicating HTML in the error page template, here is a way to apply your theme template to the error page.

First, put the following code in templates/system/error.php:

Dont forget to put it

BEFORE THE DOC TYPE!

<?php 
if ($this->error->code == '404') {
    header('Location:www.domain.com/your-custom-error-page.html');
    exit();
} 
?>

Thats it!

Here’s the code im using for all of the websites and projects

 
<?php
session_start();
 
$strlength = rand(4,7);
 
for($i=1;$i<=$strlength;$i++){
$textornumber = rand(1,3);
 
if($textornumber == 1){
$captchastr .= chr(rand(49,57));
}
if($textornumber == 2){
$captchastr .= chr(rand(65,78));
}
if($textornumber == 3){
$captchastr .= chr(rand(80,90));
}
 
}
 
$randcolR = rand(100,230);
$randcolG = rand(100,230);
$randcolB = rand(100,230);
 
//initialize image $captcha is handle dimensions 200,50
$captcha = imageCreate(200,50);
 
$backcolor = imageColorAllocate($captcha, $randcolR, $randcolG, $randcolB);
 
$txtcolor = imageColorAllocate($captcha, ($randcolR - 20), ($randcolG - 20), ($randcolB - 20));
 
for($i=1;$i<=$strlength;$i++){
 
$clockorcounter = rand(1,2);
 
if ($clockorcounter == 1){
$rotangle = rand(0,45);
}
if ($clockorcounter == 2){
$rotangle = rand(315,360);
}
 
//$i*25 spaces the characters 25 pixels apart
imagettftext($captcha,rand(14,20),$rotangle,($i*25),30,$txtcolor,"fonts/arial.ttf",substr($captchastr,($i-1),1));
}
 
for($i=1; $i<=4;$i++){
imageellipse($captcha,rand(1,200),rand(1,50),rand(50,100),rand(12,25),$txtcolor);
}
 
for($i=1; $i<=4;$i++){
imageellipse($captcha,rand(1,200),rand(1,50),rand(50,100),rand(12,25),$backcolor);
}
 
//Send the headers (at last possible time)
header('Content-type: image/png');
 
//Output the image as a PNG
imagePNG($captcha);
 
//Delete the image from memory
imageDestroy($captcha);
 
$_SESSION[captchastr] = $captchastr;
 
?>

How to enable GD library on Wamp5?

(This I assume you have running wamp5 on your system)

Click Wamp5 icon on lower right hand of your screen (see image)

Click PHP settings …

Click PHP extensions …

If there’s an triangle already showing right across php_gd2 GD is already running and you can now create image on the fly(via PHP), but if no triangle  it is not enabled and to enable it just click and restart your server

Thats it. Its really amazing right

For those who scour the net for a simple solution for a problem called “Make my YouTube embed code pass w3c HTML validation“, your in the PERFECT place, because what you’re about to read is not only simple, but the perfect solution!

Very confident me will now show you how its done …

The usual Youtube embed code(do not pass w3c HTML validation)
NOTE: where ($vid) is your Youtube video ID

<object width="430" height="347">
<param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/($vid)&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param>
<embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/($vid)&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="430" height="347"></embed>
</object>

Ok you see, when using this code to display video, it will never pass validation but instead will render validation error such as “there is no attribute allowfullscreen”, “width” among others.

But with the code below, you can perfectly validate your Youtube pages see below and test it yourself.

NOTE: ($vid) is = to your Youtube video ID, for example http://www.youtube.com/v/RHzC7YOxkVY&hl=en_US&fs=1 the emphasized letters is your Youtube ID, So now presenting the code…

<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="430" height="347" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/($vid)">
<param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/($vid)" /></object>

Oh my, yes its much shorter, and its better!!!

Javascript concatenates instead of adding two form values?

Ok, lets test this

SEE DEMO

<form id="form2" name="form2" method="post" action="#" onsubmit="document.getElementById('total2').value=parseInt(document.getElementById('field12').value)+parseInt(document.getElementById('field22').value); return false;">
  <p>
    <input type="text" name="field12" id="field12" />
  </p>
  <p>
    <input type="text" name="field22" id="field22" />
  </p>
  <p>
    <input type="submit" name="button" id="button" value="Add" />
  = 
  <input name="total2" type="text" id="total2" size="10" />
  </p>
</form>

True enough treat form values as string, so concatenates.

So, what should we do to make Javascript add those form values?

We can use Javascript function called parseInt().

The parseInt() function parses a string and returns an integer.

Ex: form.field2.value+form.field2.value (this will only concatenate)

SEE DEMO

<form id="form2" name="form2" method="post" action="#" onsubmit="document.getElementById('total2').value=parseInt(document.getElementById('field12').value)+parseInt(document.getElementById('field22').value); return false;">
  <p>
    <input type="text" name="field12" id="field12" />
  </p>
  <p>
    <input type="text" name="field22" id="field22" />
  </p>
  <p>
    <input type="submit" name="button" id="button" value="Add" />
  = 
  <input name="total2" type="text" id="total2" size="10" />
  </p>
</form>

Thats it! that should add two form values perfectly feel free to post any question and or comments thanks.

Editing Magento’s default currency symbol is relatively easy and can be done via admin.

But what if you wanted to display “USD” instead of “$”?

This too is easy enough for most of us-if you know where to look at!

Ok ok, to edit or customize default currency symbol look into;

MAGENTO_ROOT/lib/Zend/Locale/Data/

Look for you locale, in most cases en.xml (which is english), download and open it in your favorite editor, replace below code

<currency type="USD">
    <displayName>US Dollar</displayName>
    <displayName count="one">US dollar</displayName>
    <displayName count="other">US dollars</displayName>
    <symbol>$</symbol>
</currency>

With this code:

<currency type="USD">
    <displayName>US Dollar</displayName>
    <displayName count="one">US dollar</displayName>
    <displayName count="other">US dollars</displayName>
    <symbol>USD</symbol>
</currency>

I think you already noticed what we omit and replace on the code , easy enough, saved it and upload it to your server.

To make your life even more easier here’s a tip: you can find this line of code around line 3800 in en.xml

GOGOGO

hello everyone, I don’t think this post will do much, but certainly will save someone’s time finding the Magento’s Customer Login Template (login.phtml).

I’d like to share this because I spent hours trying to find this particular file and after long hours I finally found and edit it to my needs

Here the location:

MAGENTO_ROOT/app/design/frontend/default/default/template/customer/form/

Look for the file login.phtml and that should be the one you looking for.
Magento file structure can be deeper for plenty for us making it harder to manipulate. (at east as far im concern hehehe go now and edit your login )

Sometimes we wanted to validate user inputs, and more often than not we want to restrict then to only accept letters, numbers and spaces for a specific form field.

Today Ill show you how to do this via Javascript.

The below codes will demonstrate this for your quick understanding:

<form id="form1" name="form1" onsubmit="if(/[^A-Za-z\d ]/.test(this.textfield.value)){alert('String should contain letters and numbers only');}else{alert('String passed');}" method="post" action="">
  <input type="text" name="textfield" id="textfield" value="Input text here." onclick="this.value=''" />
  <input type="submit" name="button" id="button" value="Submit" />
</form>

On submit event Javascript will test value of the textfield using “/[^A-Za-z\d ]/“, if any character is found other than letter, number and space it will return TRUE and alert us that it contains illegal character(s) (letter, number and space).

Please see demo

Easy huh, try it yourself.

Using custom font to your website is relatively easy to set-up, you will need the face-face (.ttf file) upload to your server and a little tweak on the CSS file.

How to do this? here’s the code to add to your CSS:

@font-face {
    font-family: "palatino";
    src: url(http://yourwebsite.com/path-to-font-file/palatino.ttf) format("truetype");
}

The above example use a font face named “Palatino” (you can replace this to any font that you like), the second like is to tell the file where if the we are going to use. www.yourwebsite.com and inside the folderr “path-to-font-file” and use the font face file palatino.ttf .

Save your CSS and upload the font face of your choice go test it to your website its cool

As the title suggest, how will I know if I’m on Joomla! home page?

for example:

if('ImOnHomePage'){
  do this...
}else{
  do this instead...
}

A quick answer should be via PHP $_SERVER global variable:

<?php
$uri = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
if ($uri == "/" || $uri == '/home.html') {
  echo 'Im on home page';
}else{
  echo 'Im not on home page';
}
?>

Please before trying to update or change your templates/TemplateName/index.php file please do make a backup. It can save your life

Hello everyone, today I decided to show how to redirect a visitor or visitors if page is not found on server or website.

This happens when a visitor misspelled a URL or when getting too snoopy on your website, and if indeed happens a default ugly “page not found error” will be rendered by their browser.

To avoid ugly and unprofessional “page not found error” by their browser, we want to redirect them to our custom “page not found” page. You still with me? hehehe. Good.

What I have in mind today is to do this via .htaccess

Step 1: Find .htaccess and open it on your text editor, if you do not have .htaccess, please create one. This file starts with a period .htaccess please save it as is.

Step 2: Insert the below code to you .htaccess file.

ErrorDocument 404 http://yourwebsite/custom-error-page.html

For error page not found error type 404(bad request) the page will redirect to your custom-error-page.html, ofcourse this should be existing and you already put some custom message for your visitors.

Step 3: Save your .htaccess and custom error page and upload to your server.

Now test your cutom error page -> The End…

Hello, I decided to post a basic tutorial how to display array values using PHP for loop.

please see below code:

<?php
 
$idata=array(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10); //integer values
$tdata=array('Nathan','Alice','Kerry','John','Alicia'); //string values
 
echo 'PHP: for loop';
 
for($i=1; $i<=count($idata); $i++){
	echo $i.', ';
}
 
for($t=0; $t<count($tdata); $t++){
	echo $tdata[$t].', ';
}
 
?>

This will output:

<h2>PHP: for loop</h2>
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, Nathan, Alice, Kerry, John, Alicia,

let’s disect for loop:

for ( initialize a counter; conditional statement; increment a counter){
	do this code;
}

First we initialize a counter – in this case 1, then create a conditional – ($value<=$number_of_array_elements) and lastly increment until condition is met.

Nuff said, I think everything is here for you to understand PHP’s for loop

How to get image’s height and width via JavaScript

<img src="PathToYourImages/image.jpg" id="image">
 
<script language="Javascript">
var Height = document.getElementById(image).clientHeight;
var Width = document.getElementById(image).clientWidth;
/*write value*/
document.writeln("Height is: "+Height+" and width is: "+Width);
</script>

Easy? yes…

QUESTION #1: How can I add or embed my Yahoo Messenger status on my web pages?

Ans:
Add the following code to your HTML

<a href="ymsgr:sendIM?YOUR_YM_ID"><img src="http://opi.yahoo.com/online?u=YOUR_YM_ID&m=g&t=2" border="0" alt="" /></a>

Whereas “YOUR_YM_ID” is = to your actual YM ID
and t=2 means use the icon number 2.

QUESTION #2: Is there any other icon?

Ans:
YES, to view complete list of Yahoo Messenger Icon CLICK HERE

If a cell is empty or blank, get value from another cell.

For example c1=b1, if b1 is empty or blank, get a1’s value to display inside c1.

code:

=IF(ISBLANK(B1),A1,B1)

Sample Image(b1 is empty):

you can see above c1 value is 10 which came from a1

Sample Image(b1 has value):

Now you can see if value for b1 is there c1 will display b1 instead of a1 cool huh…

Hello, Ive noticed and sure so have you, when embedding a video or audio on a webpage, Chrome still plays automatically even autostart is set to false (autostart=”false”).

Finding a quick fix on the matter is not easy, so if you reach this post then congratulations, your luck is changing . Ok I’m overly exaggerating hehehe, but this fix is so quick and simple you gonna hate yourself WHY you did not think of it before.

Ok enough of that, below is the code that will autostart in Chrome but not in FF

<embed src="http://www.website.com/pathtomedia/myaudio.mp3" height="40" autostart="false" loop="false" controller="true">

Whats lacking here is an attribute that make Chrome identify the file type, FF indentifies this automatically. Ok the solution is to add type=”audio/mpeg” and your good to go.

Simple huh, I’m just typing stupid things to make this post a little longer hahaha, ok view thw complete code below.

<embed src="http://www.website.com/pathtomedia/myaudio.mp3" height="40" autostart="false" type="audio/mpeg" loop="false" controller="true">

NOTE: Add the type right after the autostart attribute, Thanks and you can stop pulling your hair off now

Hello again everyone, I found this great regex which is very effective in adding a space before every capital letter.  You can think a lot of things where to use this function.

So without further blah blah,  see the function below

<?php
 
function SpaceBeforeCapital($string){
	return preg_replace('/(?<!\ )[A-Z]/', ' $0', $string);
}
 
$SampleString = 'ReginValerianoWebDeveloper';
 
echo SpaceBeforeCapital($SampleString);
 
?>

Result string below:

Regin Valeriano Web Developer

NOTE: Im not the original writer of the regex I just found it on the web, I think its interesting, gave it a try and it works now made as a function.

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