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How to access cross-domain data with AJAX using JSONP, jQuery and PHP

fbloggs — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 10:21:49 +0000

I’m guessing that if you are reading this post you have already encountered the problem of the same origin policy with regards to retrieving data with AJAX from urls in other domains than your’s (the requesting domain). This policy, enforced by…

How To Assign The Current Date and Time to a MySQL Datetime Field using PHP

fbloggs — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 18:50:49 +0000

This is a no-brainer, but I always forget how to do it. MySQL datetime fields are stored in this format: 2010-02-18 10:33:18. Here’s a trivial example showing you how to populate a datetime field with the current date in the…

How To Embed A Google Calendar Gadget In Your Web Site

fbloggs — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 04:28:40 +0000

Google provides two simple ways, other than you writing your own client code to talk to their APIs, to embed a calendar in your web page. One method is easily found by Googling for the info. This link explains how…

How to correct font size problem with tables in jQuery UI widgets

fbloggs — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:11:27 +0000

I just recently used jQuery UI tabs in an application. Within a couple of the tabs I used tables for content (let’s not have a religious debate about using tables for layout, please). Anyway, the font size came out much bigger…

Joomla 1.5 has wrong path for css, js files – edit your configuration.php file

fbloggs — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 01:05:25 +0000

I just moved a Joomla 1.5 install from my iMac to a hosted site. The home page showed up fine, but subsequent pages were missing all styles. It turns out that I needed to change the variable $live_site in configuration.php from…

Using Aptana Studio 2.0 and PDT Plugin for Drupal Module Development

fbloggs — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 20:45:57 +0000

Aptana now uses the official Eclipse PDT (PHP Development Tools) plugin instead of their own PHP editor. I have Aptana 2.0.2, build date November 10 2009 on my Macbook. I’m building a Drupal module, so I need to have PDT…

Articles I’ve Written on IBM i (iSeries) Technology Subjects

fbloggs — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:32:05 +0000

I’ve written a few articles in recent years that have been published by MC Press Online, relating to IBM i topics. If you don’t know what the IBM i is (or an AS/400, iSeries or System i), you can stop…

How To Format a MySQL Date For Output in PHP

fbloggs — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:35:51 +0000

The following PHP code parses the date portion out of a MySQL date column and lets you format it according to the formatting rules of the PHP date function.

// Parse date portion of a date field and format it…

Feedback jQuery Plugin

fbloggs — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 20:18:15 +0000

Feedback is a jQuery plugin that lets you send feedback to a user in the form of an info message or error message, associated with any page element. It uses the jQuery UI plugin to determine the default styles of…

How to make content private in Drupal

fbloggs — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 09:00:45 +0000

How to restrict access to specific content in a Drupal site so only authenticated users (those who have logged in) can view and access it. (Short answer - install the 'content-access' plugin.)...