Using MySQL transactions with PHP
By chadking on
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 ...
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Solving PHP MySQL UTF-8 issues
By Mary Lou on
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 ...
JavaScript browser detection
By Mary Lou on
Here is some very useful javascript for detecting the browser that is accessing a page: ...
PHP function that returns the exact age
By Mary Lou on
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 ...
JavaScript: Changing location or stylesheet according to device or browser
By Mary Lou on
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 ...