Some useful Spry code that allows a single, unique row or record to be selected from an XML dataset. The process involves first passing a unique row ID to a detail page and then filtering a single row from the XML using the unique ID.
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Jan/12
25
Jan/12
Spry Dataset: Limit Rows, Characters & External Feeds
25 January 2012
A few simple Spry snippets to limit the number of rows displayed from a Spry XML Dataset, limit the characters displayed in a Spry field and how to get around the security issues preventing xml external feeds to be used.
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Jan/12
Custom WordPress Meta Titles – Homepage, Pages, Posts
22 January 2012
Getting into the nuts and bolts of Wordpress PHP in order to customise Meta Titles for the various page types including category meta title, homepage meta title, and post meta title.
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Jan/12
Variation in Google Rankings on Different Machines
14 January 2012
Looking at why variation in search engine results can be consistently different from one machine to another. Usually down to personalisation, locational search or results from different Google data centres.
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Jan/12
Reset PHP Recordset for Multiple Repeat Regions
07 January 2012
Occasionally in your PHP application, you may need to have multiple repeat regions on one page using the same recordset. If you don’t reset the recordset after the first time you use a repeat region, the content in the second repeat region will appear blank.
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Jan/12
Chrome to overtake Internet Explorer market share in June 2012
03 January 2012
Google has recently overtaken FireFox to become the second most popular browser, and there seems to be no let up in its quest to become the Worlds most popular browser… so when will Chrome overtake Internet Explorer? June 14th 2012 by my best reckoning
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Dec/11
Web development predictions for 2012
27 December 2011
2012 looks set to accelerate the evolution of web technologies used at the office and on the move and will to continue to intrigue and challenge us as developers. Here are some of my own web development predictions for 2012
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Nov/11
Apache php display friendly server error
26 November 2011
Recently, I’ve started working on a few PHP projects on a local development machine and have been getting frustrating “500 internal server errors”. The machine is a a windows 7 PC running Apache server, PHP and MySQL.
25
Oct/11
Scheduling a custom php script URL with plesk
25 October 2011
Setting up custom scripts to run automatically has many uses, for example I use scripts for tasks including MySQL database backup and email and managing notifications from website portals. The steps below run through how to set a scheduled task to call a PHP script from your website. Although I’m running Plesk 9 on a [...]
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Oct/11
Fetch as Googlebot URL Submission Testing & Review
08 October 2011
Google recently released an update to it’s “Fetch as GoogleBot” webmaster tool to allow websites or individual URLs to be submitted direct to its index, and it’s supposed to be rather fast. According to the official blog, new websites are crawled and indexed within 24 hours which would probably be faster than waiting for Googlebot [...]