Countless times I’ve been asked if I remember the command to dynamically change the APF list. Well, I’ve decided to include it here so that next time someone asks me I can tell them to come here. 🙂 Now, this can be done in many different ways but I normally […]
There are several ways of validating an email address format. Normally, I do it the following way: 1. I first define the regular expression for the email format: define (“FORMAT”,”^[_a-z0-9-]+(\.[_a-z0-9-]+)*@[a-z0-9-]+(\.[a-z0-9-]+)*(\.[a-z]{2,3})$”); 2. To validate the email address provided is correct: if ( !eregi (FORMAT, $email)) echo “The email provided has an […]
When developing a script wether if it’s in PHP or any other language you should always consider the security aspect. I’m sure the last thing you want is to get your script (and ultimately your data) hacked. To make sure this does not happen there are a few steps you […]
Sometimes you happen to have a problem with one of your MySQL queries and you simply can’t seem to understand why. Well, one thing that helps is to use the mysql_error() function. This function returns the message of the MySQL error you’re getting. Example: $action = “INSERT INTO table (name, […]
Recently I had this case where a PHP session ($_SESSION) was not being passed from a web site to WordPress. Basically, WordPress was installed and configured to be part of a web site and there was the need to use Sessions to control the login/logout process of the site. Although […]
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