Posted on September 29th, 2007 by lost-in-code
Getting a file’s extension is essential when working with uploads and other manipulations complying with files. You might have a user uploading a file and you need to rename the file before moving it from the temporary upload directory. In order to do so, you can obtain the file extension and then rename it to [...]
Tags: extension, filename, get file extension, php, split, strip file extension
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Posted on September 28th, 2007 by lost-in-code
I wrote a simple, yet extremely useful Wordpress pagination class. The class is not complete yet, and I work on it as I move along and need new features or actions. So you have the freedom to take the class and customize/expand it as you might need to. First off, you can download the class [...]
Tags: pagination, paging, Wordpress, wordpress pagination
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Posted on September 28th, 2007 by lost-in-code
The Wordpress mailing list plugin v2.0 has been released to the public with a great set of new features. These features include :
Multiple mailing lists
Email scheduling
Newsletter templates
Automatic updates indicator
Improved sidebar widget with Ajax
Post/page opt-in form embedding
Email queue
CSV and MacOS Address book importing
Excel CSV file exporting
And much, much more…
If you are upgrading from v1.X, you immediately [...]
Tags: emails, mailing, mass mailing, newsletters, plugin, subscribers, Wordpress, wordpress plugin
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Posted on September 20th, 2007 by lost-in-code
I know that I was looking for the necessary SQL code to create a countries table, together with the necessary queries to insert all the available countries into this table, each with a unique ID key. So I decided to create it and I’m sharing it with the rest of you whom might need it. [...]
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Posted on September 20th, 2007 by lost-in-code
With CakePHP, you can remove multiple records from a database table using the deleteAll() model method.
deleteAll() Usage
$this -> Model -> deleteAll($conditions, $cascade = true);
Lets say that you wanted to remove all the records for a specific user from the Item model. Below is a quick example.
deleteAll() Example
$this -> Item -> deleteAll(array(‘Item.user_id’ => 13));
…where 13 would [...]
Tags: CakePHP, delete, deleteall, multiple, php, records
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Posted on September 13th, 2007 by lost-in-code
With iTunes, it only allows you to retrieve album artwork and lyrics with a valid account into which you are logged in. Getting an iTunes account is not a problem, but it is not supported in all countries and without being able to add your credit cart to Apple’s system, you simply cannot get these [...]
Tags: account, album, artwork, dashboard, itunes, widget
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Posted on September 10th, 2007 by lost-in-code
Sometimes, you need to check if a field exists in a table and if it doesn’t, you need to add it to the table and ensure that its there. Below is a snippet which you can use a reference for checking whether a field/column exists in a MySQL database table.
$tableFields = mysql_list_fields("databasename", "tablename");
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Posted on September 7th, 2007 by lost-in-code
In case you might need to download an older version of Wordpress than the current, latest release, you can go to the release archive and obtain any of the previous releases as needed.
And then, you can view all the Wordpress release changelogs to see what changes have been made in each version which has been [...]
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