Found a great article at DevShed on “Date Arithmetic With MySQL“. The last few days we’ve been kind of puzzled about how to store and actually utilize dates, throwing them back and forth from PHP to MySQL. There seems to be a lack of documentation about MySQL date functions, I bet alot of people are doing alot of mistakes in this area.
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News for January 2006
Date Arithmetic With MySQL
Configuring LogWatch (Linux)
Logwatch is a great little proggie. I liked it very much when it used to work, it used to send me alerts about suspicious activity, and even one time saved my ass when some lowlife tried hacking through SSH. (Until I make some time figuring out what da hell is iptables) Anyways. It stopped running two weeks ago. Wanted to see what’s wrong, and here is how I got to the configuration file:
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IE6/Win ‘background-image’ Flicker Problem
IE6/Win has a specific problem with “image flickering”, observe please:
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ADOdb – database abstraction library for PHP
ADOdb is what really saved my life when moving from Classic ASP to PHP5, it supports a wide variety of database, and has some great functionality features. It supports PHP5 aswell :)
You can find ADOdb here: http://adodb.sourceforge.net/
Here are some examples of your daily database connect and retrieval:
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Free CSS navigation menus
Excellent freebies from Christopher Ware, at ExplodingBoy.com
Horizontal and vertical CSS navigations, pretty sexy ones too.