Blazek Web Design

AJAX - Save textarea as a draft to SQL database

Nathan Blazek — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 04:00:46 +0000

I was working on a project yesterday that I found it necessary to create an auto-save feature do to the lengthy amount of text that would be entered into a text area. This is a little more complicated, but here it goes! create.php <?php include ‘../../config.php’; //THIS FILE STARTS YOUR DB CONNECTION if (isset($_POST["submit"])) { $content = $_POST["content"]; $SQLsavearticle = “PUT [...]

Populate a select box from a database in PHP

Nathan Blazek — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:12:17 +0000

This is really a very basic and very simple method of populating a select box with database data. For example, If you have a list of states in your database, you could create a drop-down box that you can select all the states without a long drawn out piece of code. Here’s what your table entitled [...]

Create a printer-friendly page

Nathan Blazek — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:10:03 +0000

When I was developing this site I quickly realized that while the design looks fine, it prints horribly! Who would want a list of 200 tags included in their print. So I ended up making a fix to allow a printer friendly version of the page to be loaded and then printed. First of all, [...]

Send SMS text message through the web using PHP

Nathan Blazek — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:00:03 +0000

I was working on a project this weekend and came accross a blog post about how to send an SMS message to a phone via email. I was intriguged and descided to put this into practice with a PHP script. This script will take a phone number and send an SMS message to that number. [...]

A life of antagonistic knowledge

Nathan Blazek — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 00:11:14 +0000

As a web developer I pride myself as someone who knows how to do things, whatever the task…Connect to a database…check…Dynamic CSS…check… Using a third party CMS to its fullest ability……uhhh…. I do “think” I know quite a bit, but every once in awhile I run into something that I never new and got stumped. This [...]

The importance of web statistics

Nathan Blazek — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 02:34:45 +0000

Web statistics may not be important some some webmasters, but it should be. It is important because you can find out the following about your visitors: Web Browser Screen Resolution Operating System Top referrals Search engine keywords, phrases Time on site Visitor location and so much more! If you know that the majority of your visitors are on a certain web browser and screen [...]

Password Protect your pages in PHP

Nathan Blazek — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 12:00:13 +0000

As a final part of a three part series in how to password protect your pages with your new user database that you created from the previous posts. To do this, create a new php file called: passprotect.php <?php include ‘config.php’; $authorid = $_COOKIE["member"]; $password = $_COOKIE["memberpass"]; $SQLvalidate = “SELECT * FROM `member` WHERE memberid=’$memberid’ AND password=’$password’”; $results = mysql_query($SQLvalidate); $numrows = mysql_num_rows($results); if [...]

Membership login and password reset in PHP

Nathan Blazek — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:00:32 +0000

This is part 2 of a 3 part part post. The first post is here: How to Create a PHP membership database. This post will take the previous a little further and will demonstrate how to create a login feature to the member database and lso incorperates a password reset ability in case it is [...]

How to create a PHP membership database

Nathan Blazek — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 22:00:08 +0000

There are many applications that I’ve written that require some sort of membership system. The core section of any membership system is its registration page. I decided to share with you how I store membership information to be called later for any other section of the site. First of all, like all PHP applications, I [...]

Uppercase to Lowercase in XSL

Nathan Blazek — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 22:19:03 +0000

I have a co-worker who writes news releases that are titled ENTIRELY IN CAPS. While this may be effective in email communication, or even a standard when making a news release. The look and feel of it can reduce its value to the point of not even wanting to see it. The problem I ran into [...]