ImageMagick is probably the best option we have when dealing with image resizing, croping and other small editing jobs that we need when working with image uploads.
As I am running a photography website, where community members are sometimes uploading images straight out of their digital cameras, I came across the following problem:
Digital cameras usually add [...]

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If you are in a shared server environment, and you don’t have access to the php.ini file,  or you want to set php parameters on a per-site basis, you can use the .htaccess file (when running on an Apache webserver).
For instance, in order to change the max_execution_time value, all you need to do is edit [...]

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Use the following SQL command:

ALTER TABLE table_name AUTO_INCREMENT = new_value

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As I  started to build this blog, I clearly needed some solution for displaying code on a wordpress blog.
Asfter studying a few solutions with more or less results, I decided uppon SyntaxHighlighter Plus which seams to be the best solution out there.
However, although it worked great with the default Wordpress theme I realised that as [...]

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One of the oldest problems in webdesign is related to background images on table rows.
Problem: when you provide a background images (through HTML or CSS) on a table row:

<table>

<tr background="bg.gif">

<td>some stuff</td>

<td>more stuff</td>

<tr>

</table>

On Firefox everything would go out as planned. However in older browsers like IE 6, each of the 2 table columns will inherit the [...]

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The following short tutorial will show you how to create a simple menu like the one in the image bellow.

In order to simulate de the bullet we use the css property “background”.
For positioning the bullet on the right  side, we use “background-position” and we specify the left offset in pixels.
We also need to specify [...]

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Ajax for newbies: verify if record exists in database table using prototype and PHP.
Step 1: include prototype.js
Create a new page (index.php). Add this line of code in the tag of index.php to include prototype framework:

<script type="text/javascript" src="prototype.js">
</script>

Step 2: HTML code for index.php

<input type="text" name="name" id="name" />
<input type="submit"  value="Verify" onclick="javascript:verifyName()"/>

<span id="result" style="color:#009900"> </span>

Step 3:Create [...]

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