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“Access Denied” troubles with files and folders in Windows

Good Evening, Windows has this really nasty feature called “user permissions”, well its not all nasty as it gives full flexibility when it comes to assigning permissions to certain users or groups of users. The trouble is that if your not familiar with the feature, and in fact just ignore it all together as is […]

PHP: using UTF8 for CSV creation

If your generating a CSV with PHP you may have stumbled upon the same problem as me where any special character such as £ becomes ASCII in your CSV, this is because the encoding of your CSV is wrong and you will need to output your CSV in UTF8 to be able to use special […]

PHP: Find the file where a class was defined

It’s annoying when you are looking for a particular class in a system you are not very familiar with, you end up looking all over the system file by file hoping to find the class so you can make changes to the code as you require. Well there is a simple solution which will allow […]

Remove JoniCoupon from Chrome - JoniCoupon Adware removal

Unfortunately my laptop fell victim to the JoniCoupon malware, not sure where it came from as I had not downloaded and installed anything for months. In fact I only use my laptop for streaming movies from my main pc, and I also watch those movies on my PC and that has not ever been infected […]

Search And Replace with MySQL

MySQL is a very powerful database management system with many useful features, there comes a time when you may need to search through a MySQL database and replace certain data which may now be out of date, the horrible thing is this data is repeated in many (and perhaps unknown) places throughout the table… So […]

Parsing HTML in PHP using Simple HTML DOM

Being able to parse HTML with PHP is very important if you need to scrape data from a website or add/remove parts of a html document. Fortunately this is extremely easy with Simple HTML DOM, this 46KB include is a miracle script that enables you to read HTML files into an object which you can […]

OpenCart: Clean SEO URL’s for Contact Us, Site Map and other custom pages

Over the last few weeks I have been working with OpenCart, a free Open-Source Shopping Cart. And so far I have been loving it! However it was not long until I hit a road block with the software, after enabling the clean SEO URL’s feature and setting up my “SEO Keywords” for all my products, […]

Sending HTML E-Mails with file attachments with one easy function!

Quite a few years ago I was having difficulty with sending HTML emails, on some clients they worked fine but for others they would come through all garbled. so I decided to research a correct approach, which I implemented into a function. A little while later I wanted to also send file attachments in the […]

How to update Twitter API from v1 to v1.1

Has your twitter feed stopped working the last couple of days? Well if your using V1 of the Twitter API then there is a very good reason, twitter have now dropped support for V1 of the API and you must update your code to work with V1.1. Unfortunately you cannot simply change the URL to […]

How To: Duplicate Rows using SQL in MySQL

Are you looking to simply duplicate existing rows in your MySQL table? I needed to do this recently for a database I had for a project I was developing, I wanted to duplicate the data in the database to about 10,000 rows to test response times of SQL and perform optimization on the system.

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