Uploading Database with phpmyadmin – Max file size exceeded

June 18th, 2010

I have been moving some of my websites around onto different servers. While uploading the sql database of a website I came across the following error message:
“No data was received to import. Either no file name was submitted, or the file size exceeded the maximum size permitted by your PHP configuration. See FAQ 1.16.”
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Dynamic Drive – a Useful DHTML Script Library

May 6th, 2010

This is a website I have used for a few years now. It’s by no means the best script library out there, but it has definitely provided me a few solutions in times of need.
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Theme Specific Functions

April 20th, 2010

This is quite a simple thing. On the latest website I am building I had loads of different page templates for different sections of the site. On the templates there was a column of contact information that was common across them all. I therefore wanted to create a separate file with this information, just in case it needed editing so I didn’t have to change every template.
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Active Navigation Elements

April 20th, 2010

I am currently building a website where it is very important to be able to mark the navigation elements as ‘active’ when you are on the page. This is because, to a degree, the navigation creates the title of the page.
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A Simple Solution to Video Podcasts

March 25th, 2010

For my current employer I established a complete video podcasting solution. This system allows people to subscribe to our feed using iTunes.
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Hiding a page or post in WordPress

February 20th, 2010

Yesterday I came across a situation where I needed to hide a couple of pages from the navigation of a site, but still have the pages accessible by a direct link. I only had a short amount of time and this is the solution I implemented (there may be a better one out there, but this is what I found in the short time permitted).
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Greetings

January 19th, 2010

I have been playing with the idea of having a blog for a while now, not for any real profound reason, more as a way of documenting the new skills I learn and to list useful websites/resources I find online.
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