Updating a range of records with MySQL
Updating a single record entry in a MySQL database table is fairly simple, but what if you need to update a batch of records with one single query?
It's not as difficult as you might think...
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Converting between dates and timestamps in PHP
There may be occasion, when working in PHP, that you need to convert date related values between date type formats and timestamps.
PHP makes that incredibly easy to accomplish.
Solving JSON encode error Invalid UTF-8 sequence in argument in PHP
We've recently been working on some PHP coding to generate JSON output drawn from a variety of MySQL database tables and hit the following error: json_encode(): Invalid UTF-8 sequence in argument.
Solving this was, thankfully, relatively quick and easy...
Useful PHP Composer functions
Thanks, in recent years, to the introduction of Composer managing package dependencies for PHP has become much easier, quicker and far less stressful. The following are some Composer essentials that all PHP developers should be familiar with...
Upgrading PHP installation on Mac OS X Mavericks
One of the great things about Mac OS X for developers?
The sheer amount of built-in, open source technologies available by default: Apache, Bash, Curl, Emacs, Nano, Perl, PHP, Python and Ruby to name but a handful.
In this article we'll guide you through bypassing the version of PHP installed by default on Mavericks and using a different binary instead.
Installing Node and SaSS behind a proxy
If you find yourself working behind a corporate web proxy server chances are you'll be running into issues when trying to install SaSS and using the Node Package Manager (npm). Thankfully these issues are easy to resolve with a little command line magic.
Installing SVN on Mavericks OS X
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Blocking a range of IP Addresses
If you manage a website (or a number of websites) you will inevitably, at some point, experience unwanted form spamming. It's certainly not the highlight of anyone's day but sadly a persistent experience in today's connected world. If you are able to use and configure .htaccess files on your web server then you can implement IP blocking to help minimise unwanted form spam.
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