Category: Archived

Alright, I just had a good bout with the Jangomail API.  Seemed easy enough, but I wanted to share my results with everyone. I am going to share a simply command to send a basic transaction email, in HTML, with an attachment. First off, create yourself an account at Jangomail.  Secondly, make note of your…

Note (3/9/2013) – This blog post was written a long time ago.  So I am not entirely sure if this fix would still apply.  Although, it most certainly might, if not then something very similar would still work. I have become very familiar with Codeignitor, CKFinder, and CKEditor since I have been in business. Recently…

My General Thoughts So I wanted to share my thoughts pertaining to web hosting. They are kind of biased…but it is what it is. Throughout my entire web/application development career, I cannot describe how many hosts I have researched, intensely studied, or personally tried. I have personally tried a variety of them (tons of free…

If you are a programmer of any kind, you are most likely familiar with the Case/Switch statement.  This is simply a way in programming for you to do different things depending on the value of a variable.  For example..if your working with a variable named abc.  You might want to do different things depending on…

I wanted to express my thoughts here about PDF generation in PHP.  Doing this by default is pretty easy.  You download FPDF (or the library of your choice), you install it, configure it, and set it up. Then generally you just build your PDF. I recently ran across a few different classes that have claimed…

Disclaimer: The code within the post is NOT ready for a production environment.  I have halfway pulled it out of Codeigniter and half formatted as you would need.  So this is not usable in a production environment. It is ONLY meant to serve as examples. I had to write about this.  This was probably one…

Throughout my career I have used a variety of different “productivity” tools.  I have used time tracking software, invoice management systems, project management systems, calendars, to-do lists, productivity systems of all shapes/sizes, personal management systems, personal databases, communication systems, and virtually every type of application that is currently out there.  However, in my entire career,…

PHP has powerful Session and Cookie handling features built in. You can have full use of sessions and cookies with built in core PHP functions, without a great deal of work. Sessions are generally used for short term state saving, while cookies are meant to store long term data in a users browser. PHP Sessions…