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[HTML] Stop embeded YouTube videos autoplaying

Posted on Thu, 2008-10-09 21:41

When embedding YouTube videos on to your website, the video will play back automatically as soon as the page has loaded. To stop this, follow this quick edit.

When you embed a video from YouTube you get some code like this:

[PHP] Operators

Posted on Thu, 2008-09-25 21:46

There are a few different types of operators in PHP and I will cover the most commonly used ones.

Arithmetic Operators

These are list basic maths. The 4 most common are:

Addition

Sum of $a and $b.

[PHP] Introduction

Posted on Wed, 2008-09-24 23:59

Syntax

When writing PHP code it is best to use the following opening and closing statements:

<?php
?>

On some websites and scripts you may see it written like this:

?>

This is not good practice as not all servers will be set up to allow this shorthand tag.

[Drupal] Get a list of other nodes that are related by taxonomy terms

Posted on Wed, 2008-09-24 12:07

Building on this snippet from Drupal to get related node items sharing the same taxonomy terms for 4.7, I have made it work for multiple terms.  This snippet is for Drupal 5 and has been tested to work on 5.10.

The code will return a list view of 5 (changeable with $num_nodes) in an unordered list in a random format.

If you want to order the items you can edit the code to order the data in the SQL statement and take out lines 18 and 19.

[Drupal] Installation

Posted on Mon, 2008-09-22 21:00

You will need to have set up an IIS or Apache webserver with PHP 5.2 or greater and a Mysql/PostgreSQL database before you can work on Drupal. For more requirements see [Drupal] Overview.

Set up your PC as a test environment using Apache, PHP and MySQL

Posted on Mon, 2008-09-22 20:03

You can approach the set up of a test environment in 2 seperate ways. You can manually set up Apache/IIS, PHP and MySQL seperately then configure them to work together or you can use a package such as WAMP (Apache, MySQL, PHP) or XAMPP (Apache, MySQL, PHP, Perl).

There are benefits to manually setting up each bit of software for the purpose of the test server we will just use Xampp.

[Drupal] Overview

Posted on Mon, 2008-09-22 19:36

What is Drupal?

Drupal is an open source CMF (Content Management Framework) created by Dries Buytaert.

What is the difference between a CMS and a CMF?

Not a lot but Drupal is refered to as a CMF due to is configurability and customisation that you are able to do through it's excellent back end and through the use of third party contributed modules as well as modules created by yourself.

How do I get Drupal?

Go to http://drupal.org and download which ever version you want.

Premier4509 show off their new kits

Posted on Mon, 2008-09-22 18:26

Premier4509 has released images of 4 new body kits.

The first being for the Aston Martin V8 Vantage.

UK Counties & Countries data files (CSV + MySQL)

Posted on Mon, 2008-09-22 17:57

The following files are data files that can be used in projects that require a list of UK Counties and/or all of the Countries in the world.

The following files are useful for web developers to use for their select drop downs or a lookup table in a database.

[MySQL] Using MySQL to analyze web usage from Windows ISA logs

Posted on Mon, 2008-09-22 13:57

This tutorial will teach you how to import a tab delimited file in to a MySQL database. I built a program to do this for Windows ISA Server logs which contained over 500,000 lines which was way too many for Microsoft Excel to handle and too much for notepad to handle properly. What MySQL functions will we be using:

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