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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 [...]

If you are a web developer and having problems on Installing PHP Curl on Apache with PHP installed on Windows Operating System, below is my version of tonyspecer’s “cURL with PHP and Apache on Windows“.  The steps are simple and direct to the point. I have windows apache version 2.2.14 and PHP Version 5.2.10 installed on my Laptop using the installers provided on the respective sites. 1.  Install APACHE and PHP (I installed my APACHE on C:\apache and PHP on [...]

Sending E-Mail with PHP can be simple, or it can be very complex depending on what you want to do.  PHPmailer is a free PHP software used for sending emails or should I say used for “spamming”.  Though the software has been provided for free, many developers has gone beyond its real purpose.  With a block of IP Address , a web server with PHP installed in it is a perfect set-up for spamming. I have been using this free [...]

Code Igniter is one of the best PHP framework available today.  It is free to download and user guide can be found together with the package. In Code Igniter the class that has the database queries or the methods that deals with getting the data on the database is placed inside the MODEL folder.  Just remember the “D” which tells us that Database methods are placed in this folder as what Jeffrey Way said in his tutorials. Here are different [...]

PHP is one of the mostly used language on the net. Why is it preferred by most web developers? Well, to give a brief reason why I love PHP most and why it is widely used I am sure of and few of the reasons why I love PHP: It is free, easy to use, secure and extremely fast. PHP before and today have a very big difference since PHP today is on Object Oriented approach though some other ways [...]

One problem in creating a PHP Session Authentication is that when you are logged in and suddenly logs out and click the back button you will be returned to the page where you kast visited.   Isn’t this a problem especially when you have important data in that page.  So if you have problem with this let me share a code that will surely eleminate the problem.  In this code there is no need for javascripts to disable the back button(what [...]

Yesterday I was walking on the mall and I saw this movie, it was entitled The Knowing.  When I got home I searched for the movie over the net and I saw the trailer and it was something that I should see.  It tells about how the feature will be if we keep this foolishness that we are doing.  I love the environment so much that it hurt me a lot of what it has become now.  I bought a [...]