Setting up hMailServer on your development box
I use the free and awesome hMailServer on my WAMP dev box so that I can test my e-mail functions…
PHP e-mail address validation
Here are the results of an exercise in e-mail validation using two different PHP options, namely PHP's filter_var() and PHP's…
Upload PDF script
This script was a quick hack to allow a PDF to be uploaded to replace an outdated one on a…
Return the file extension portion of a filename
This was another PHP question in a skills evaluation test I was asked to complete. In this post: Task Write…
Complex SQL query using SUM and GROUP BY
I got this question as part of a skills evaluation test. It requires a query to aggregate data from 2…
CSV to SQL converter script using PHP
This is a very old script I wrote to take CSV data (exported from Excel) and create INSERT statements for…
Type-ahead look-up jQuery AJAX demo
This was one of my first jQuery experiments. jQuery AJAX requests to a PHP/MySQL back-end populate the drop-down of the…
Drag-and-drop sortable list using Script.aculo.us
This is some quick work I did quite some time ago when assessing different JavaScript libraries. This demo uses Script.aculo.us…
Search a multi-dimensional array for a value and return a breadcrumb-like trail using PHP
This one had me stumped! Working with arrays is something that every developer must be comfortable with. Fortunately, PHP has…
Crayon Syntax Highlighter for posting code in WordPress
So, after the blog was hacked and the hosting company could not restore it from a backup, I embarked on…