Suckerfish Style Menus in Drupal 6.x

I spent hours and hours hunting around for a simple solution to implementing suckerfish-style drop-down menus in Drupal 6. Lo-and-behold, I couldn’t find one. Every solution out there was overly complicated, and didn’t quite do what I wanted it to.
After a few hours of hacking around, this is the solution I came up [...]

On-The-Fly Dynamic Thumbnails with PHP

I hate thumbnails. There. I’ve said it. Well… I suppose hate is a strong word… but I seriously strongly dislike them. I guess it’s not the thumbnails themselves I hate… it’s the extra work involved. Open up the image, crop, resize, save, upload, not right? rinse, lather, repeat until [...]

PHP/Javascript File Uploader

Recently one of our clients was in need of the ability to upload files to their webserver. This was easily accomplished with PHP’s built in functionality. But the draw back to this approach was that end-user had little or no indication that anything was happening.
Now we all know what happens. Typical scenario: [...]

Validate and Escape Data to Prevent SQL Injection

So we’re back on the topic of SQL Injection, and how to prevent them with PHP. This subject, while often discussed, is not taken as seriously as it should be by many a web-developer, whether it be because of laziness, or merely due to lack of knowledge. Assuming the latter is the most [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]