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image from www.codeproject.com On the last day of our class for the first semester, our instructor gave us an assignment about infix, postfix and prefix.  The assignment was to create a program that converts infix equations to its postfix form and prefix form.  I search around the net and the resources are so few that it took me days to have a sample program in C.  I am not that good in C programming but I can create C++ or [...]

PHP has a function date where you can specify different ways on how to display the date.  How do you generate current date and display only month and date like ‘September 2010′.  Here is a simple php howto, The code above will simply output September 2010, a simple code that will surely help you especially when coding PHP from scratch. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments [...]

Lately I have been searching  this post on the net about graphics.h in dev c++ and found few resources about it .  So I decided to write how to use graphics.h in dev-c++.  I am expecting that you have already installed bloodshed dev-cpp on your machine.  Graphics.h is a header file found in borlan c but because of its late development devcpp is now the mostly used IDE and compiler in programming c++. Below are the steps on how to [...]

In the past months I was able to handle a LAMP server, this is my second time to handle a UNIX based web server but this time its a lot different because I will will be the one to install and configure the web server.  Our System administrator was the one who installed the latest version of slackware which is 13.1 on the machine, so all I need to do is have the web server up and running. Our system [...]

Knowing the right MySQL statement is the most important part in having thousands of data in your database, one false move and you can’t undo things.    If you want to change a string or character in your database and doing it manually in thousands or millions of entries then that should consume all of your time. One example scenario is when you want to change all the entries containing a character ‘_’ to this character ‘-’ .  All you need [...]

Do you want to extract the main domain of a URL?  Here is a function that works well and can be modified easily.  I found this function while searching for a good Regular Expression to fulfill such result. {code type=php}<?php function get_base_domain($url)  { $debug = 0; $base_domain = ”; $G_TLD = array( ‘biz’,'com’,'edu’,'gov’,'info’,'int’,'mil’,'name’,'net’,'org’,'aero’,'asia’,'cat’,'coop’,'jobs’,'mobi’,'museum’, ‘pro’,'tel’,'travel’,'arpa’,'root’,'berlin’,'bzh’,'cym’,'gal’,'geo’,'kid’,'kids’,'lat’,'mail’,'nyc’,'post’,'sco’,'web’,'xxx’, ‘nato’,'example’,'invalid’,'localhost’,'test’,'bitnet’,'csnet’,'ip’,'local’,'onion’,'uucp’, ‘co’ ); // country tlds (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_code_top-level_domain) $C_TLD = array( ‘ac’,'ad’,'ae’,'af’,'ag’,'ai’,'al’,'am’,'an’,'ao’,'aq’,'ar’,'as’,'at’,'au’,'aw’,'ax’,'az’, ‘ba’,'bb’,'bd’,'be’,'bf’,'bg’,'bh’,'bi’,'bj’,'bm’,'bn’,'bo’,'br’,'bs’,'bt’,'bw’,'by’,'bz’, ‘ca’,'cc’,'cd’,'cf’,'cg’,'ch’,'ci’,'ck’,'cl’,'cm’,'cn’,'co’,'cr’,'cu’,'cv’,'cx’,'cy’,'cz’, ‘de’,'dj’,'dk’,'dm’,'do’,'dz’,'ec’,'ee’,'eg’,'er’,'es’,'et’,'eu’,'fi’,'fj’,'fk’,'fm’,'fo’, ‘fr’,'ga’,'gd’,'ge’,'gf’,'gg’,'gh’,'gi’,'gl’,'gm’,'gn’,'gp’,'gq’,'gr’,'gs’,'gt’,'gu’,'gw’, ‘gy’,'hk’,'hm’,'hn’,'hr’,'ht’,'hu’,'id’,'ie’,'il’,'im’,'in’,'io’,'iq’,'ir’,'is’,'it’,'je’, ‘jm’,'jo’,'jp’,'ke’,'kg’,'kh’,'ki’,'km’,'kn’,'kr’,'kw’,'ky’,'kz’,'la’,'lb’,'lc’,'li’,'lk’, ‘lr’,'ls’,'lt’,'lu’,'lv’,'ly’,'ma’,'mc’,'md’,'mg’,'mh’,'mk’,'ml’,'mm’,'mn’,'mo’,'mp’,'mq’, ‘mr’,'ms’,'mt’,'mu’,'mv’,'mw’,'mx’,'my’,'mz’,'na’,'nc’,'ne’,'nf’,'ng’,'ni’,'nl’,'no’,'np’, ‘nr’,'nu’,'nz’,'om’,'pa’,'pe’,'pf’,'pg’,'ph’,'pk’,'pl’,'pn’,'pr’,'ps’,'pt’,'pw’,'py’,'qa’, ‘re’,'ro’,'ru’,'rw’,'sa’,'sb’,'sc’,'sd’,'se’,'sg’,'sh’,'si’,'sk’,'sl’,'sm’,'sn’,'sr’,'st’, ‘sv’,'sy’,'sz’,'tc’,'td’,'tf’,'tg’,'th’,'tj’,'tk’,'tl’,'tm’,'tn’,'to’,'tr’,'tt’,'tv’,'tw’, ‘tz’,'ua’,'ug’,'uk’,'us’,'uy’,'uz’,'va’,'vc’,'ve’,'vg’,'vi’,'vn’,'vu’,'wf’,'ws’,'ye’,'yu’, ‘za’,'zm’,'zw’,'eh’,'kp’,'me’,'rs’,'um’,'bv’,'gb’,'pm’,'sj’,'so’,'yt’,'su’,'tp’,'bu’,'cs’,'dd’,'zr’ ); [...]

By Default phpmyadmin can import data on your mysql database up to 2MB of data and beyond that will be an error.  This has been a big problem  by most webmasters and sometimes this can be a barrier to stop improving the sites.  Before I kept on searching what to use to import a large data on my MySQL database and all I can see is BigDump.  It is a software used for large and very large MySQL Dumps which [...]