The Lie of the Century

I didn’t write this article, so I don’t take credit for it.. But I felt it was something that everyone should read… and seeing as how it was released in the public domain, I’m posting it here for your reading enjoyment. You know, it’s one thing to keep secrets from the general population for [...]

Open Your Eyes

I’m privy to many a private mailing list. Occasionally I get jokes, pictures, save-the-whales chain-letters, you know. The normal kind of mail that gets forwarded from one person to another – pointless, but usually semi-worth the the minute of your life wasted on reading it. Then I get things like the following. [...]

Mimic AJAX Form Posts with PHP, Javascript, and Cookies

I was recently reading various articles on how to load external pages using javascript and loading the results into a container div, mimicing that aspect of AJAX requests. But the main complaint I read was that you couldn’t POST. I thought it would be neat to figure out a way to do this, [...]

Preventing SQL Injection with PHP

SQL Injection. We’ve all heard the term. But what exactly is it? Sounds dirty and vile… or maybe something you get at the doctor’s office. A new type of plastic surgery maybe? Well, let’s find out, shall we?
From Wikiedpia.com:

SQL injection is a technique that exploits a security vulnerability occurring [...]

Imagining the Tenth Dimension

I dont know how many of you have seen this video, but I thought it worthwhile to share, just in case you hadn’t.
Based on the book “Imagining the tenth dimension”, by Rob Bryanton, you are taken through the first chapter of the book where the concepts of the 10 dimensions are explained in a fairly [...]

PHP/AJAX – Instant DB Query and Results

This tutorial will teach you how to use PHP and the XMLHttpRequest object [AJAX] to query a database for a value and display a result on the screen without having to refresh the page.
In this particular example, we’re doing a simple query in the style of Google(tm) – Checking for the availability of a [...]

Simple Link Tracking with PHP – Part I

This little tutorial will teach you how to create a simple out-going link tracker in PHP.
One of our clients had a rotating-advertisement script we had set him up with, and they decided they wanted to count the number of times each ad was clicked. Easy enough to do, but why just count clicks? There’s so [...]