Monthly Archives: August 2005

class Util – a handy thing to have around

Posted on August 31, 2005 by DaveK

I have a Util class that is in my library of tools. I find myself using these functions often, thought I would share…. I like keeping my functions in a class, that way I don’t worry about redefining functions. Share … Continue reading →

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Weird Internet Explorer Print Bug Involving IFRAME and TABLE

Posted on August 31, 2005 by DaveK

I ran into a very strange bug with printing in IE. It happened in an online calendar program that I work on. Somebody showed me a printed page from IE 6 where the attendees, which are in an IFRAME, had … Continue reading →

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Throttle down your bandwidth

Posted on August 25, 2005 by DaveK

Just found this, think I might try it out sometime:http://www.xk72.com/charles/index.html See what your site looks like with low bandwidth or latency. Also, Charles can act as a man-in-the-middle for HTTP/SSL communication, enabling you to debug the content of your HTTPS … Continue reading →

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Using Curl 101

Posted on August 13, 2005 by DaveK

To use Curl in PHP, you must have the Curl extension compiled in –with-curl, and you’ll want –with-openssl, if you need to be able to hit https pages. Once you get PHP working with Curl (I could explain how to … Continue reading →

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PHP Sessions using MySQL

Posted on August 12, 2005 by DaveK

MySQL sessions are “gotta have it” thing if your site ever grows beyond single server. If you have multiple servers behind a load balancer, you could keep session data on a shared SAN, but MySQL makes for a better session … Continue reading →

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