Personal Computing and Development by Dag J. Nedrelid WebDev
IE GIF animation problem
If you click a link or submit a form in IE, any gif image will stop its current animation and wait for the new document to load. This is because the IE browser unloads everything once it starts loading a new document, including the animation mechanisms of gif image files.
Proportional image sizing
A formula I made in order to recalculate proportional image sizes.
I usually do this when I need an image to fit inside a specifically sized container, but with the correct proportions.
Simple HTML 2 PDF using PHP
The following is a nice alternative for those who need to generate dynamic PDF documents on-the-go. This class does not require any PDF extensions to be loaded in the PHP configuration.
PHP excel export without saving a file
A simple way of exporting data to the web in excel format, you don’t have to create an excel file, you just have to define the proper headers for the browser.
PNG IE6 transparency issue
Microsofts solution for the PNG transparency problem in IE 6.0
Apache2 and case-sensitive URLs
Are you having a problem with your URLs having to be in correct case? A solution is the ’speling’ module.
MS Access Connection Strings
There are two common connection string types that can be used to connect to an MS Access database.
Domain 301 permanent redirect
In some cases the same web site is available through several domains, at least two, like www.domain.com and domain.com which is the most common case.
Is this a problem?
L.A.M.P – Linux Apache MySQL PHP
Many of the most successful sites on the internet runs on this open source technology server model.
An excellent model to go with when creating your own web hosting environment. A proper LAMP setup can run for many years without ever loosing any stability or performance.
HTTP POST Upload progress
Performing an upload through a form with method POST makes the web browser visually ‘hang’ while the upload is in progress. The below method can be used to give the uploader an indication about an upload in progress, and indicate when the upload is finished.
Welcome to Thronic.com
If you want to contact me, you can send me an e-mail.
Search this Site
Miscellaneous Links
Recent Articles
- Google-like search suggestion tool
- Linux Bash Color
- Resize a div layer with javascript
- Moving a div layer with javascript
- Web Galaxy » A sci-fi browser game
- Windows 7 on Asus Eee 900 PC
- IE and PHP sessions
- Wordpress 2.8.6 Spell Check Languages
- Reset MySQL Root Password
- Linux hosts file
- IdleGuard
- Column count in SQL
- String encryption in PHP
- Alphanumeric Captcha values in PHP
- Your own numeric Captcha in PHP