http://refrsh.com Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 16 Jul 2008 09:01:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I was playing around with some more vector work, (yes boss, I am working too!) and came up with a penguin who I have affectionately named Dave. I am including the PSD file in with Dave in case anyone wants it to download and play with. If you do decide to give ... http://refrsh.com/2008/07/vector-art-dave-the-penguin-freebie/ As promised here are a few more green things. There are also red ones which I will put on as well. If anybody wants to take the PSD and do more with it then let me know and I will link it up :) 1/ I think I need a break..... 2/ sad 3/ ... http://refrsh.com/2008/07/more-vector-thingys/ Whilst uploading an image I kept getting an error message: HTTP ERROR: crunching... and the image wouldnt upload. This appears to be a know bug and a few people have a few theories but the one that worked for me was to create an .htaccess file in the wp-admin folder and add: <IfModule mod_security.c> <Files async-upload.php> SecFilterEngine ... http://refrsh.com/2008/07/worpress-25-upload-bug/ Validation? One of a range of vector images I did for T Shirts not so long ago. I still have some availble with different designs if anyone i sinterested ;) http://refrsh.com/2008/07/vector-art/ Need a quick and dirty captcha? [code lang="php"] session_start(); $str = str_shuffle('abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789'); $substr = substr($str, 0, 6); $im = imagecreate(60, 25); // white background and blue text $bg = imagecolorallocate($im, 255, 255, 255); $textcolor = imagecolorallocate($im, 0, 0, 0); // write the string at the top left imagestring($im, 5, 2, 4, $substr, $textcolor); // output the image header("Content-type: image/png"); imagepng($im); [/code] Should give you ... http://refrsh.com/2008/07/php-snippet-custom-captcha/ So 1 day into my blogging life and I have 5 spam messages already. Askimet is now activated so lets see what happens....... http://refrsh.com/2008/07/blog-for-1-day-and-get-spammed/ Alrighty then, here goes with the first of what I hope will be many tutorials. This is a BASIC login script that uses a MySQL database to log someone in. It is by no means a complete, secure, authorising system so please dont come back with things like; "Your session security is ... http://refrsh.com/2008/07/basic-php-mysql-login-tutorial/ Snippet for formatting byte size. [code lang="php"] function formatSize($size, $round = 0) { $sizes = array('B', 'kB', 'MB', 'GB', 'TB', 'PB', 'EB', 'ZB', 'YB'); for ($i=0; $size > 1024 && $i < count($sizes) - 1; $i++) $size /= 1024; return round($size,$round).$sizes[$i]; } [/code] Usage: [code lang="php"] formatSize('12345'); [/code] *********** ... http://refrsh.com/2008/07/format-size/ Debugger Function: Wrote this for a small CMS to return a nicel formatted error string. Accepts either a string or Array as the argument and cn debug superglobals as well (POST, SESSION, GET, COOKIE et al) [code lang="php"] function debugger($desc=null, $what) { /* if it's an array, print_r for formatted output ** */ if($desc) { echo ''. $desc .''; } if(is_array($what)) ... http://refrsh.com/2008/07/debugger-function/ well yes, here it is - after years of procrastinating and deliberating the inevitable has happened..... SpikeZ has a blog! So what is the plan for this blog? Basically for me to whack up some code snippets from helping on various sites mostly Sitepoint.com but also a few others. I intend to add tutorials ... http://refrsh.com/2008/07/its-about-time-dammit/