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PHP: Creating 'Remember Me' using cookies

PHP Sessions are great, they allow us to easily store information about a client without that client having ANY access to that data. In fact all they have is a “key” which links up to a session file stored on the server which PHP accesses behind the scenes. This makes sessions very secure for us, […]

PHP: some POST variables missing!

The other day a colleague was having a very puzzling problem with PHP POST Variables, he was posting an array of values from a large form but some of the values were missing from the $_POST variable. After looking through his code a couple of times we came to the conclusion that the code was […]

phplist - Process campaigns using a CRON (phplist v3)

PHPList is an amazing piece of software if your looking to send mailshot from your server, what makes it even better is the fact it’s 100% free! One of the biggest annoyances though is when it comes to processing your campaigns, by default this is done after you have created your campaign by clicking “process […]

Trim an image using PHP GD

Recently I was working with UPS Dispatch Labels, I built a neat system which would get back the label URL from the API and then pull out the image data from the document (the image being just the label itself). Unfortunately there was some whitespace on the label which was affecting a A4 instruction sheet […]

Link a folder or drive to another folder on Windows 8, 7, xp, vista

Windows has a very neat hidden feature which is only available for advanced PC users, just like in Linux, the windows file system allows for Junction Points and Symlinks. A Symlink (Symbolic Link) is the ability to place a “folder” which is actually a link to another location on the system such as a folder […]

Android: Enable USB Debug Mode Missing From Settings

Anyone familiar with Android will know that USB Debug Mode is required in order for any external device (such as a Desktop PC) to communicate with your Android phone allowing for third party services to access and control your device (such as ADB). However on some devices such as Samsung S3, this feature is missing […]

Relative Path Shortcut in Windows

Windows technically does not support relative path shortcuts, however I say technically because there is a way to create relative path shortcuts that work on any Windows system, and it works by utilizing explorer.exe directly. This method is much easier and quicker than the method’s already floating around on the internet, one such method involves […]

Check for Shellshock in WHM/cPanel/CentOS

The new Shellshock Bash Vulnerability is a serious vulnerability affecting any UNIX/Linux/Mac based Operating System, it has only recently been discovered and can basically allow any command full root permissions on your server, so for instance an attacker can gain access to your PHP Script and then use the exec function (which is a PHP […]

Check if checkbox is checked using jQuery 1.11

There is much confusion on the internet when it comes to jQuery and best practices, this is partly because of large charges between jQuery versions which are easily unnoticed as old methods are usually backwards compatible. However in the case of checking to see if a checkbox is checked, if you use the older methods […]

OpenCart: Improve MySQL performance

OpenCart is an awesome eCommerce system, however there are a few shortcomings due to the apparent lack of knowledge the OpenCart development team have (or perhaps the incompleteness of the OpenCart software?). Unfortunately the database structure of OpenCart does not implement MySQL indexing as it should, the database design however is extremely well implemented and […]

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