Harry Bailey

Harry Bailey is a technology and delivery leader who specialises in turning agency project chaos into clarity. With more than twenty years of experience as a developer, agency founder and fractional CTO, he helps digital and creative agencies build stronger engineering and delivery cultures and improve commercial outcomes. He focuses on practical, immediately actionable strategies, not theory, so teams can ship work on time and with less drama.

Return Number Of Rows With PHP From SQL Database

Occasionally working with SQL databases (not my beloved MySQL) I always struggled getting the number of rows in a consistant manner.

Until now…

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Pipe / Send Email to a PHP Script

Sending (or piping) emails to a php script would allows a whole world of fun. I had a spare 30 minutes the other night so I sat down, read a few blog posts and forums and set up emails to pipe to a php script.

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Delay Before Completion of File Load Solved

I was pulling my hair out this morning because although a css file I was loading was offering it’s contents immediately, the file didn’t complete loading to the browser for another 10+ seconds on each refresh.

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Magic Quotes – Quickly and Safely Removing Slashes

I have seen loads of ways of looping though GET, POST and COOKIE and stripping slashes, but I finally think I found one I am happy with.
The benefits it offers include…

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Location of hosts httpd.conf php.ini on Mac OSX

I’m sick of forgetting where to find my local development files so here is a quick breakdown. It includes hosts file, httpd.conf and php.ini

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