Summary Here is a “quick and dirty” way to get a connection to a MySQL server and a database selected. There are newer and better ways of doing this. If you use a shared hosting provider, however, they are not always so quick to update the servers to the latest software. This method should work…
Summary Below is a function that can generate a random advertisement within you HTML page. I have made it modular, so that it can be reused for different geometries within the page. Below are very brief instructions on how to use it. References: The part about getting a directory listing is from the PHP Manual.
Note: This page is concerned with generating HTML when you already have your thumbnails and photos. I have another page if you want a script that can create thumbnails. Maybe deprecated with all the new ways to get this done, but here is an example of a working FOR loop in PHP. Summary This page describes a PHP script…
Open Document format Open source office doc. Much better for printing. cal = Calendar.Prints a calendar for [[month] year].cat = Catenate.Joins files end to end or send file to standard output. cd = Change Directory.”..” is one directory up. Without a path, sends you home.chgrp = Change Group.Changes the group associated with file-list. Group is the name or group…
Summary With the widespread use of hand-held devices used to browse the Internet, it has become more important to make links that are large enough to be touched by hand, not just clicked with a pointer. I searched around a while and am satisfied with this simple solution using CSS without relying on the “button”…
Summary This page has a brief explanation of a possible way to increase the resolution of your unsupported / poorly supported video card under linux by using the generic vesa driver. A sign of this is only getting 800×600 or 640×480 pixels when your monitor can handle a greater resolution. Background Trying to install Linux…
Summary Here is my recommendation. If you have trouble with an Acer or Gateway laptop that has a black screen on boot, and won’t boot into the CD ROM device, then try plugging an ethernet cable into the laptop from a working router. It worked both times for two different laptops with different operating systems….
Update 2016. I still use these scripts to process photos. Summary Below are three small perl scripts that makes use of the exiv2 application to manipulate EXIF data in a JPG file. They are single loops that can change the value of the meta data associated with a JPG file (the data about camera, shutter…