Recently I found that auto linking urls and emails of a string having image tags within was not possible using text helper in CakePHP. It would try to autoLink url of image src and thus it is broken. I am…
Month: October 2010
A php tool for adjusting or correcting time of subtitles of a video movie
As English is not my mother tongue i do like (at least first time) subtitles running while watching an English movie. This time while i was watching another movie the only subtitles’ file i found over there had a straight…
Getting current page url and title for social network sharing in WordPress
Today i added a few social network sharing buttons i.e. facebook, twitter, delicious, myspace etc. to the right side column of this very blog. To make it work as desired I had to do some extra bit of effort to…
Field type tinyint(1) would not save values other than 0 and 1 in CakePHP
Just a quick note. I had a “is_active” field in my users table which i had been using to store boolean 0 and 1 values. Later, i mean today, i decided to save a new value -1 to this field…
Making line-through color to appear different than the text (using CSS)
I am posting a simple trick to make the color of line-through line to appear different than the stricken text. I had to recall this trick actually as we rarely use it and i guess i myself never used it…
A few notes on joining a MySQL table to itself to get unique combination of field data
Just a few notes on joining a MySQL table to itself to get unique combination of data stored in its fields. Suppose we have a MySQL table named `keywords` having fields `word1`, `word2` and `word3`. Once we have got a…
Fixing ‘mysql’ is not recognized as an internal or external command in Windows7
Having WAMP installed when i try to type mysql in my windows command prompt it would give me the following error:
How to add HTML tag keyboard and toolbar shortcuts to Notepad++
(skip to implementation) Like most computer users i do prefer to use keyboard shortcuts and while working with web pages in particular, keyboard shortcuts and visual shortcuts in editor toolbars speed up development work considerably. There are HTML editors like…