MySQL Tutorial: Put table column schema enum values in an array
I hate hard coding enums so you can use this script to get the enum values directly from the table schema. That way if you add or change them you don’t have to go...
View ArticlePHP Tutorial: Connecting to a MySQL Database
You would think this is really obvious but I see a TON of posts on devnetwork.net (great php/mysql forum by the way) where people put their login and password for their database on every...
View ArticlePHP Tutorial: Looping Through & Displaying A MySQL Result Set
Recently I’ve seen a lot of people using while loops to retrieve a single record. You only need to loop through your result set when you expect to get more than one row of...
View ArticlePHP Tutorial: Put MySQL ENUM values into drop down select box
If you have an ENUM field in your table schema then you don’t want to go through the hassle of re-writing out all of the different ENUM values when you do an online form...
View ArticlePits of Doom Lesson 10: Member Interaction
In the last lesson we added the ability to fight monsters on our map and added a graphic library to display our maps and updated the map editor so we can easily customize our...
View ArticleMySQL Workbench FIX: Cannot start SSH tunnel manager error — even when using...
I recently ran into this problem when I updated to the newest version of Tortoise SVN. This error was happening every time I tried to connect to a server, even if I wasn’t using...
View ArticlePHP Tutorial: 2 Player Tic-Tac-Toe Game (no database required)
In the first part of my games tutorial series we created a PHP Hangman game and then in the second installment we converted Hangman to use AJAX. Now it’s time to follow the same...
View ArticlePHP Tutorial: Mass search and replace database field contents
So recently I needed to remove a bunch of URLs from my member’s content on my games because of spyware/malware notifications Chrome users were getting. It took me a bit to figure out how...
View ArticleMySQL Tutorial: A Beginners Guide
So, what is a database? If you think you’ve never used a database before you’re wrong. Are you online right now reading this post?? Guess what, you’re reading information from a database. You can...
View ArticlePHP Tutorial: Searching and Pagination
In the work that I’ve done for clients and just in browsing the web I’ve seen a fair amount of strange pagination scripts out there. If you’re looking for a simple pagination solution then...
View ArticlePHP Tutorial: Connecting to a MySQLi Database
So, here’s the low down on how to setup a connection to a MySQL database using MySQLi and PHP. This will also make sure your login information is protected. First, you’ll need a database,...
View ArticlePHP Tutorial: Looping Through & Displaying A MySQLi Result Set
Recently I’ve seen a lot of people using while loops to retrieve a single record. You only need to loop through your result set when you expect to get more than one row of...
View ArticleMySQL Tutorial: Archiving and Loading Archived Table Data
Let’s say you have a really large table and you want to archive the data to a new table so that your main table is smaller again. This is useful with things like chat...
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