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How to Parse a CSV File Using PHP

Posted in PHP Tutorials, Web Development Tutorials by John Ward on the June 18th, 2009

In this tutorial you will learn a simple way to parse CSV files using PHP and output the text of the fields you need. This tutorial is not going to go into what you can do with the data once you get it from the CSV as the possibilities are endless. We will simply show you how to get the data into an array in PHP.

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Validating Email Address with PHP and AJAX

Posted in AJAX, HTML Tutorials, JavaScriptTutorials, PHP Tutorials, Web Development Tutorials by Mike Maguire on the June 8th, 2009

This tutorial will walk you through checking for an e-mail to be valid as the user is filling out the form without having to reload the page.

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Disable UAC(User Access Control) in Windows Vista

Posted in Administration Tutorials, Other Tutorials, Tips and Tricks, Windows Tutorials by Mike Maguire on the May 8th, 2009

This tutorial will walk you through disabling the UAC that is enabled on all Windows Vista machines by default.

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Launch of WootStat – The Best Woot Tracker on Facebook

Posted in Off Topic by John Ward on the April 6th, 2009

Introducing WootStat, the premier Woot tracker for Facebook. Mike and myself decided to work with the Facebook API. We ended up created a cool application for tracking items on Woot.com. After checking out the competiton we stack up pretty well. I think we have the most features of any WootTracker on Facebook.

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How to Return MySQL Results to a Table

Posted in Other Tutorials by John Ward on the March 30th, 2009

This question has been asked several times lately and I wanted to clear this up. This is a very easy concept once you get it down. In order to display the results from a MySQL query into a table will will store the results in an array and then echo out each row in a while loop.

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Editing MySQL Data Using PHP

Posted in Database Tutorials, MySQL, PHP Tutorials, Web Development Tutorials by John Ward on the March 13th, 2009

We have had a few tutorial that show how to display and add data to a MySQL database. Now I am going to show you how to edit a row in your database. In previous examples we setup a table whcih contains: ID, FName, LName and PHON. We will be retreiving the data, making changes, then updating the row in the database. This tutorial is design for the user to update there own information so we will only be editing row for this user.

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Handling Errors To Prevent Application Crashes in VB

Posted in Programming Tutorials, Visual Basic 2005/2008 by Mike Maguire on the February 27th, 2009

This tutorial will walk you through a very simple but extremely useful function in programming. When you write code you can never guarantee that specific requirements will be met upon execution and therefore errors are always a possibility. As a coder you need to be able foresee these types of issues and catch them before the application crashes and requires the user to restart it and even worse, lose data that they may have been working on.

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How to Get a Users Geo Location?

Posted in PHP Tutorials, SEO Tutorials, Web Development Tutorials by John Ward on the February 22nd, 2009

Every wonder how all of those dating ads know that you are looking for hot girls near (insert your city here)? Well if you are a complete nerd like me you probably ignored the hot girls and wondered: “How did they know where I live?”. There are a few simple ways to do this. Today I am going to show you how to GeoCode using MaxMind’s free version.

MaxMind offers a paid version of this script that probably offers much more functionality. For what I need though, the free database does the job. I checked the results via a few proxies …

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Convert a MySQL date field using PHP Functions

Posted in Database Tutorials, PHP Tutorials, Web Development Tutorials by John Ward on the February 20th, 2009

Today I am going to show you how to convert data returned from a MySQL database that was store as a date data type into a user friendly format. To do this you can take two different approaches. One way to do it is to use the function date_format() function in your query. The other way to to modify the date after it is returned.

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Configuring Authentication on MS SQL 2008

Posted in Database Tutorials, Microsoft SQL 2008 by Mike Maguire on the November 22nd, 2008

This tutorial will walk you through configuring your SQL server with credentials for applications and users to connect with. This will allow you to determine who has what type of access as well as how they can update the tables in the database.

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Configuring and Creating a Database in MS SQL 2008

Posted in Database Tutorials, Microsoft SQL 2008 by Mike Maguire on the November 10th, 2008

This tutorial will walk you through what you need to do to start using the installation of Microsoft SQL 2008 Express Edition that we did in the last tutorial. We will need to configure the services to allow incoming connections and we will also go through creating the database as well as some tables to insert information.

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Installing Microsoft SQL 2008 Express Edition

Posted in Programming Tutorials, Windows Tutorials by Mike Maguire on the November 9th, 2008

This tutorial will walk you through installing Microsoft’s SQL Server 2008 Express Edition. This will allow us to create a database and start writing more advanced applications in Visual Basic that require a database.

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