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Excerpt: As a developer and web designer,  the most frustrating part I have found  is when working with forms. Long time ago (about 2 years now) I start putting togheter few PHP function trying to make my life a lot easier, but never got the time to finish it off. Finally I have put everything on the side and got cracking on this due to a new project that involves the making a few very long forms. The thought of writing all the html code (tables or DIVs) and validate them made me go back to this little project and decided to give it more thoughts. This is the first release of the PHP code for this project so, if you would like to give it a bash and make use of it please do so... A sample can be found here: SAMPLE PHP FORM Some of the features: Choice of using TABLE or DIVs for layout You can create more than one form on the same page making sure the right one is validated on submission Basic form validation Option to make the field required or not Show ERROR message  beside the required field - standard Option to set the ERROR message text - set to REQUIRED in the sample form Show ERROR message at the top of the form as well - optional Cuts form creation time in more than half Automatically sets the values of the field after posting the form Option to add javascript code to the field (e.g. for use with ajax, etc) and much more... If you find any errors and anything that could help improve the functionality of this project, please leave
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Excerpt: Have been an Eircom business customer for over 5 years now and I have to say I have never had many issues. But recently - the past few months my connection keeps dropping. Some-days I have to restart the router at least 20 times before I get a stable connection. Being fed-up with the issue, despite the fact that the "BUSINESS" customer support sucks, I decided to call and find out what the problem is. The answer I got and I quote: "There are too many connections at one time and the server crashes = CRAPS-OUT (my words)" I start laughing and replied that the answer that I was given it's not good enough. As I am writing this, and it's not lie, I am after re-starting the router 3 times already and it's Sunday - How many business customer are on-line at this time? I called again on Friday and I was told that someone will be calling me back to help me with my problem, but as expected I haven't received any calls yet. Maybe the support team for the "Business" customers are on holiday - a long one.... Few months ago Eircom was blaming my router, so they send me another one which didn't solve the problem. After calling back they said that a new router will be on the way to me again, so I refused it because it's not the bloody router - what the hack is wrong with you people? I do network setup for a living. I should know when the router is at fault, don't you think? This issue, used to happen few times every week and the funny part was, that always started a
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Excerpt: Yesterday I was reading on Facebook.comthat something cool is about to happen @ Blacknight.com These guys always surprised me with their "boldness" and "chick" [IN A GOOD WAY], so I couldn't wait to see what's on the platter this time. Blacknight.com, considered by myself one of the best hosting providers in Ireland (not getting paid to say this - just my satisfied opinion), are giving almost 80% OFFany new .ie domain registration or domain transfer, which brings the total bill to just 5.00 EUR - that's right, just 5.00 EUR. To make the process as simple as possible, there is not need to enter a promotional code or discount codes - the shopping cart will automatically give you the discount at the check out. Now that's value for money, so hurry up and purchase a .ie domain today (actually tomorrow 24th August 2009) as the offer it's only valid until the 29th of August 2009. More information about this "CRAZY" offer can be found - you guessed - on Blacknight.com website...
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Excerpt: After what happened to "Grandad"  @ Head Rambles recently, got me thinking in finding a way to monitor any changes made to the .htaccess file. Grandad's .htaccess file, was injected with some malicious code, checking for the USER_AGENT, in turn redirecting "Googlebot, Slurp, msnbot" to another website. This can be easily achieved as the server itself  updates the date & time of the file/s changed by adding a timestamp to it. Keeping track is not that hard, once we have this value stored for later comparison. The solution I came up with, is to create a directory where a new text file is created, which in turn will store the existing file timestamp. With a bit of PHP coding, we can read the contents of the text file created and compare it with the existing timestamp of the file itself. If the current timestamp is not equal to what we have stored, an ALERT email will be sent to the website administrator, who can verify the content of the file itself, making sure no malicious changes were made as per example given above. The code can be downloaded from here >> and please let me know if you encounter any problems....
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Excerpt:   It seems that Google search engine thinks that all sites are harmful... Could that be a glitch with their system? It also seems that their own site (searching for "adsense") is not suitable for browsing either...
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