News for January 2006

Date Arithmetic With MySQL

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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Posted: January 17th, 2006
Categories: Database, MySQL, PHP, Web
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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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Posted: January 11th, 2006
Categories: Linux
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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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Posted: January 7th, 2006
Categories: CSS, Fixes, Internet Explorer
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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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Posted: January 5th, 2006
Categories: Database, PHP
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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.

14 free vertical menu designs

More CSS navigation menus

CSS navigation menus

Posted: January 5th, 2006
Categories: Freebies
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