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Sound like a right pain in the arse? It’s surprisingly simple actually….
The steps to creating a simple locally run php Coda plugin:
You must have php installed and running locally.
Start the plugin file with theses lines:
#!/usr/bin/php -q
(no space between < and ?php) Where /use/bin/php is the path to you local php install Continue reading
Update: You can now signup and help in testing. http://bucket.harrybailey.com
I have been working on something recently to make my Twitter life a lot easier.
I don’t have an iPhone and I’m not planning one getting on in the near future, so I send sms messages to Twitter to update my status. Simple enough when you have one Twitter account. You just add your device ( phone ) to Twitter, tell it when to send you sms messages, and what to send you and off you go.
Sadly you can only apply a device to one Twitter account and can only send updated to one account from your device via sms.
Until now!
Continue readingSome database management tools refuse to admit you can add multiple primary key columns to one table, so you might have to do it with direct sql syntax ( deep intake of breath ).
Multiple primary keys make ‘ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE column = column + 100’ type queries a shed load more flexible.
Anyway, on with the code:
ALTER TABLE tablename ADD PRIMARY KEY (column_one, column_two)
And there you have it. Robert’s your fathers brother.
Why is it that banks are always 5 years behind when it comes to the internet?
For those not in ‘the know’, a ‘webhook’ is where you define a url ( or address ) you would like to be notified when certain things happen on a website you use.
As an example, you tell PayPal to notify your payment confirm url when your business account receives a payment. They then send the payment details to that url so an automated script can do something with them. Usually tell you to send the item they bought.
When you try and use cookies in php, you can’t use dots / periods [.] in the names. So this won’t work:
$var = $_COOKIE['cookie.name.with.dots'];You can set them with dots using Javascript, but when you go to access them, the dots magically become underscores [ _ ]