Posted by Lee under Programming, jQuery
Whilst working on our new Image Manager in Breeze we came across an interesting bug that was causing images to be incorrectly linked to in the editor due to Internet Explorer (IE6 & IE7 intermittently) returning the wrong HREF value for a link. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Lee under General
At 5:03pm last Friday afternoon whilst demoing a new site to a client I came to see the ever so lovely “too many connections” error from mySQL (or in the case of CodeIgniter - could not connect to database error). I knew what was going to hit me next, the calls from clients who are having problems as well accessing their websites - and sure enough about 5 minutes later they started to come through so I just did a quick restart of mySQL and Apache which cleared the problem, but I wanted to work out how to stop this from happening again.
Posted by Lee under Programming
No I wasn’t late for a meeting due to differing timezones, but it is official I hate dealing with timezones - infact it was from the first day I had to do any programming related to timezones that I hated working with them.
A lot of these problems stem from building websites (more specifically our Breeze CMS) that need to cater for visitors that can visit from different timezones and need to see data being shown in their current time. You can also face issues if your hosting provider is located outside of your timezone. But not to worry - we have come up with some solutions to these problems as I have spent forever trying to get my head around the issues we have faced.
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Posted by David under CodeIgniter Libraries
We needed a class that would retrieve a block of data with parent/child relationships from mySQL and store it in an array which correctly represents the three dimensional nature of the parent/child relationships. The class needed to also have methods for add, deleting and moving entries within and between categories.
Posted by Lee under Programming
I accidentally came across a mighty handy feature in the PHP explode() function today whilst doing an update to Breeze CMS that I cannot see documented anywhere. It certainly saved me what would have been a full re-write or reconsideration of the function I was writing! Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Lee under CodeIgniter Libraries
This is the first of many libraries we will be releasing as open source for the CodeIgniter community. Be certain to keep an eye on this site for future releases and other tips/contributions related to CodeIgniter.
Anyone wanting to use the SMS Global (Australia Based) API for sending SMS’s from their application.
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Posted by Lee under General
I have just completed the new design for this blog - still got a few things to tweak such as the sidebar but I just wanted to get the new design live so we can place some of the CodeIgniter Libraries that we have been planning on releasing on here.
Feel free to leave any comments about what you think of the design - I just went for something nice and simple and to the point as this site will be mainly content driven.
Posted by Lee under General
This will be the home to the PX Webdesign Lab blog covering all of our developments along with technical information and help covering the following subjects:
So keep an eye out here in the coming weeks for more information.
This blog will undergo a re-design very shortly as well - we are just using a temporary theme until we have the new design prepared.
The Lab is the web development blog for PX Webdesign that covers many subjects from PHP, CSS, jQuery, CodeIgniter, Design and XHTML / HTML