For those of you coming from the Microsoft ASP or ASP.Net world, you may be wondering how to safely encode a string in your PHP output. In ASP, you would use the Server.HTMLEncode() function. In PHP, you would use the built-in htmlspecialchars() function.
Introduction This is quite basic, but could help someone who’s new to PHP and wants to grab a querystring value from the page’s url and use it in PHP code.
If you’re anxious to do some testing of the final release version of Mozilla’s Firefox 5, start your download engines! Visit the Mozilla FTP Servers and grab your platform’s version.
If you’re wondering how to set a default value for an optional attribute in your JSP 2.0 Tag File, here’s a simple technique. Using a JTSL Choose tag statement, check if the incoming variable is empty. If it’s empty, set your default text in the otherwise declaration.
I was randomly surfing the net when I was reminded of several interesting sites that I’ve used in the past to generate random placeholder text for web applications. Here are 10 sites that I think can be useful to both web designer & developers. They help you to get a realistic idea of what the page … Continue reading →
If you’ve found yourself “lucky” enough to be in a situation where you have to switch back and forth between Visual Studio and Eclipse environments, you may notice (and be annoyed) that the shortcut / hot keys may be a little different. You may even make a mistake once in a while.
I had to do a lot of research when making my transition to JSP files from the ASP/ASPX world. I needed to know the equivalents for things that I took for granted and used on a daily basis. One of the best features of the JSP 2.0 specification that made me feel at home was … Continue reading →
I wrote this page many years ago in my old blog so I’d have a quick reference to using regular expressions in my Javascript and Perl projects – It became quite popular, and then I stopped publishing my blog a year or two ago… I’ve resurrected (and updated it) for this blog, including links to … Continue reading →
I was experiencing some issues with IE9 and an HTML page – only when the browser was set to “Document Mode: IE9 standards” in the Developer Tools (F12) menu option. I had the need to do some smart detection in Javascript. Using some documentation I found on Microsoft’s MSDN site, I wrote a small Javascript … Continue reading →
localStorage is the W3C Web Storage API specification that allows you to store data locally in key/value pairs, using Javascript. These are stored as strings in the client’s browser without using Cookies of any kind. It is supported in all modern HTML5 browsers. This is not to be confused with the defunct W3C Web SQL … Continue reading →