Paul Cracknell

Passwords are a necessary evil these days, almost every site you go to now, you have the ability to register with them which requires a password. I have a function that I use for checking that the password meets my minimum standards to ensure the security of the users information. This is the code. function [...]

Dates that come from MySql databases are a bit back to front for people to read.  The year first followed by months and then days.  In Australia, New Zealand, Europe and many other countries it is dd-mm-yyyy so this is a small function to turn this around to be more readable. On your page where [...]

Here is a PHP fuction that I have used recently to calculate if an album in a gallery is expired. This is what goes in the html. 1 2 3 4 //Define the album date in a variable $albumDate = 2012-11-01; //Call to function albumExpired($albumDate); This is the function which is called. 1 2 3 [...]

This warning is confusing and can cause heaps of wasted time.  I have found that the line where the warning says the problem is, is not really the problem. Remove extra mysql_close statements and this will probably fix it.

I had a situation recently where I had a fully operational website running on the web and I needed / wanted to make some radical changes to the theme and I wanted to interact with the current database. I use wamp for a local test server and wanted to replicate the entire website to my [...]