Pokemon Go Memes

A collection of some of the funnies Pokemon Go memes / jokes that I’ve come across in the past week or so. Funeral. A Pokemon Go players crashes a funeral so that he can catch the elusive Mewtwo: Why should we buy this house? A Real Estate agent seals the deal by telling his potential […]

Jaden Smith “Coming Out” – Facebook virus.

This morning, I noticed that my Facebook feed was awash with people posting links to a hoax clickbait story about Jaden Smith “coming out” or deciding to get a sex change. The title of the link is pure clickbait, designed to draw people in: Young actor Jaden Smith, SON of famed actor Will Smith. At early […]

PHP T-Shirts

A collection of humorous PHP and Web Developer-related T-Shirt slogans that you can buy online.

Send Ajax request after page has loaded.

This is a tutorial on how to send Ajax requests after the web page has loaded.

JQuery: Display an element for 5 seconds.

Temporarily display an element with JQuery.

PHP: Create CSV file from MySQL.

An example of exporting MySQL rows to a CSV file that is downloaded by the user’s browser.

Convert a CSV file into JSON using PHP.

Convert a CSV file into a JSON string format.

PHP: Convert JSON to CSV.

Converting JSON data into a CSV file using PHP.

Receiving JSON POST data via PHP.

A tutorial on how to receive raw JSON POST data with PHP.

Fixing a Samsung Galaxy A3 that won’t turn on

If your Samsung Galaxy A3 phone is dead, then you may need to force it to restart by holding down the volume and power buttons.

PHP: Check if function exists.

This is a short guide on how to check to see if a PHP function exists (i.e. if it has been defined or not).

Stop JavaScript from being cached.

How to stop web browsers from caching your JavaScript files.

Dynamic CSS stylesheets with PHP.

A tutorial on how to dynamically create CSS stylesheets with PHP.

SQL Server: “The password of the account has expired.”

User passwords on SQL Server will expire by default. To disable this, you will need to untick the expiration checkbox.

Facebook: How to view group members.

This is a short guide on how to view the members of a Facebook group.

PHP: Get the day of the week from a date string.

This is a short guide on how to get the day of the week from a given date in PHP.

PHP: Returning a variable from an include file.

This is a quick tutorial on how to “return” variables from an included PHP file.

PHP: Populating a drop down list from MySQL.

This is an extremely simply tutorial on how to populate a drop down list using values that you’ve selected from MySQL.

Low FPS due to a high CPU temperature

If you’re experiencing a low FPS on your PC, then the issue may be your CPU temperature.

PHP Exceptions: Try & Catch.

A simple guide to using Try & Catch in PHP.

Warning: session_start(): open_basedir restriction in effect.

This is an issue that occurred when I attempted to run a PHP web application on a Windows IIS server.

PHP: Save an object to MySQL database.

This is a tutorial on how to save PHP objects to a MySQL database. This method will also work with other DBMS systems such as SQL Server and PostgreSQL.

PHP: Storing an array in a session variable.

This is a tutorial on how to store a PHP array in a session variable.

mysql_fetch_array() expects parameter 1 to be resource, boolean given.

This is probably one of the most common PHP errors.

How to truncate a MySQL table with PHP

This PHP tutorial will show you how to empty a MySQL table using the PDO object.

PHP: Select list of MySQL tables (PDO).

This is a tutorial on how to retrieve a list of MySQL tables using PHP and the PDO object.

PHP Comments.

This is a simple tutorial on how to write comments in PHP.

PHP: Fix for “Invalid argument supplied for foreach()”

PHP will display the “invalid argument” warning if your code attempts to loop over a variable that is not an array.

PHP: Create directory based on current date.

This is a PHP tutorial on how to create directories and sub-directories that are based on the current date.

PHP: Create directory if it doesn’t exist.

This is a quick PHP tutorial on how to create a folder or directory if it doesn’t already exist.

PHP: Detect if request type is POST or GET.

In this guide, we will show you how to detect the HTTP request type using PHP. This is useful if you want to restrict URLs to POST, GET, etc.

Was Gerry Adams in the IRA?

In this article, we look at all of the evidence that suggests Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams was a member of the IRA.

PHP: PDO transaction example.

In this guide, we will show you how to use transactions with PHP’s PDO object.

Generating a 4-digit PIN code with PHP.

A tutorial on how to generate random PIN codes with PHP.

PHP: Login to website with cURL.

A tutorial on how to login to websites with cURL and PHP.