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Using MySQL transactions with PHP

In Playground by chadking on September 1, 2009

The following is an example of using the transactional support in MySQL. Let’s assume we have two tables, USERTBL and EMAILTBL. Let’s consider the innodb

Solving PHP MySQL UTF-8 issues

In Playground by Mary Lou on August 31, 2009

Heres a list of actions you should do in order to get PHP + MySQL working with UTF-8: 1. Database: CREATE DATABASE db_name CHARACTER SET utf8 DEFAULT CHARACTER SET u

CSS button with hover effect

In Tutorials by Mary Lou on August 31, 2009

Inspired by the nice download button on the jquery homepage I created this button with a hover effect. It uses opacity options for all browsers. You can see a demo h

Free Web 2.0 style glossy buttons

In Articles by Mary Lou on August 30, 2009

Here is a set of some colorful glossy web 2.0 style buttons in png format (size: 203 px wide, 71 px high). You can use them as you like!

JavaScript browser detection

In Playground by Mary Lou on August 30, 2009

Here is some very useful javascript for detecting the browser that is accessing a page:

PHP function that returns the exact age

In Playground by Mary Lou on August 30, 2009

Here is a simple PHP function that returns the exact age of a person given his/her birthdate: function age($month, $day, $year){ $y = gmstrftime("%Y"); $m = gmstrfti

CSS Gmail style labels

In Tutorials by Mary Lou on August 29, 2009

Ever wondered how to generate some cool gmail labels in css? Here is an attempt to imitate the little labels used in gmail. Three tiny colorless images are used to c

Cool CSS-only registration form

In Tutorials by Mary Lou on August 28, 2009

Here is a very simple and cool registration form. A lot of times I was searching for some registration or login form that is easy to adapt. Here comes my contributio

Simple CSS chart for dynamic content

In Tutorials by Mary Lou on August 27, 2009

This is an example of a very simple CSS + one tiny image chart. The result will look like this: Insert the follwoing style into the head of your html (or add it to y

Simple CSS: Update box for category or posts

In Tutorials by Mary Lou on August 26, 2009

Let’s create a simple and clean box that shows the updates in a category (or anything you might like it to use for). The result looks like this: Starting with

JavaScript: Changing location or stylesheet according to device or browser

In Playground by Mary Lou on August 26, 2009

Developing web applications for mobile phones sometimes brings the need to just create separate content for different devices. Some time ago I had to create a web