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An article on how to resolve errors and setup a standard ping request using the TravelPort Universal API. This is to be achieved using PHP as the server-side programming language and cURL, a sub-component of PHP that allows you to send and receive requests as the server (as opposed to the client device).
This is an article with notes for me on how to convert some received XML encoded in UTF-16 to some JSON in UTF-8. If it were entirely in UTF-8, I would simply load the received XML with SimpleXML and use the built-in PHP JSON_encode function. I ran into the following errors: Warning: SimpleXMLElement::__construct() [si...
A quick article for Joomla CMS version 3.x on resolving a menu item alias conflict: Warning Save failed with the following error. Another menu item has the same alias in Root. Root is the top level parent You will need: Access to the Joomla Administration Panel (to check for and remove expired menu items) A good databa...
A note to myself on how to create a development/test version of a production/live Wordpress CMS site.
A quick article on how to create a middleware script which accepts the values from a submitted HTML form and sends it to a server on another domain for processing. This applies to Linux Apache MySQL and PHP (LAMP) setups.
A quick article on how to set a password using the database tools for super users.
A quick article on how to get the value of 40°4′20″N 116°35′51″E into 40.079857, 116.603112. How? Let's pretend all the names are in column A, in Column B I have the coordinates that I want to convert: A B ------------------------------------- ---------------------- Beijing Capital International Airport 40°4′20″N 116°3...
A quick article on a function to allow the user to take a photo using their built-in camera or to choose an existing photo from their gallery.
A quick article on how to replace the return key on a soft keyboard (software based) on a touch-device.
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