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Execute HTTP POST Request Using PHP CURL

Recently I had a weird problem where I was setting up two sites to use Barclays ePDQ, however the post back URL for both sites were completely different so I could not simply format a PARAMVAR so ePDQ would post to the right place. I finally concluded that I needed a central location for ALL […]

Using PEAR without installation & How to setup the SMTP PEAR mailer

PEAR (PHP Extension And Application Repository) is a framework and distribution system for reusable PHP components, it comes in “packages” depending on various functionality you may require and is installed into a server using PEAR’s own installer or PYRUS. However you CAN “install” any/all of the PEAR packages without actually “installing”, the PEAR packages are […]

jQuery: Load CSS with AJAX (all browsers)

Load css using jQuery so you can capture when the css has been loaded – working in all old and new browsers!

URL pointing to file without extension

I came across a very weird and extremely annoying “feature” of Apache recently when configuring a clients web server. When linking to a file on the server, you could directly link to a file without specifying it’s file extension. so linking to: http://mysite/favicon Would link directly to: http://mysite/favicon.ico I can completely understand how useful this […]

Javascript: parseInt() and leading 0’s

Here’s a strange one for you… We all know that parseInt() is a really useful function for converting a string into an integer. It enables us to take a string, convert it to a number, perform mathematic equations and get the result we are looking for. However today I was converting some strings into numbers […]

htaccess: Remove www from URL without specifying the full URL

This is something that has been irritating me for a while now, I like to remove and force removal of the www. in front of all websites that I own and host. However the only examples I have ever found online use the domain name in the re-write rule. Which means that every .htaccess file […]

Restore from iCloud after jailbreak?

This is a question I found myself asking the other day – I had wiped my iPhone and then applied the greenpois0n Absinthe jailbreak, but I wanted to restore all my settings, apps, pictures and app data from my iCloud backup. To my dismay, I found that most people were saying it was not possible […]

IP Geo Targeting in PHP–The EASY Way!

I recently decided to implement the Ebay Partner Program into my website as the Google Affiliate Network was making me nothing. One of the biggest problems though is, when using the “Widgets” you do not get Geo Targeting, so you have to create a different Banner for each country and implement a way to target […]

JavaScript: Setting page title tag issues with HTML encoding

This one has been causing me to rip my hair out, literally! So here is the scenario… You have an element in your DOM that contains some text, you wish to fetch that text and set it as the page title dynamically. So thinking this is the easy part of your JavaScript for today, you […]

Tutorial: Using FCKEditor FileManager in the new CKEditor

Recently I decided to upgrade a clients administration panel from the old FCKEditor to the new CKEditor – however after installation I realised the FileManager was missing… So I started trawling the internet looking for an alternative. I came across this very useful guide which I followed step-by-step and it was so easy!! I successfully […]

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