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Applies to: FileZilla for MacmacOS High Sierra A quick note to remind me how to enable FTP directory listing as it was working on my Windows PC but not on my Mac. The error I was getting was Error: Failed to retrieve directory listing though I could access the folders if I browsed the existing folders by entering it in...
A quick article on how to get a div layer to increase height based on how a heading fits on a page. What? I have a heading like this: The code of this is: A long heading that wraps over several lines
A quick reminder on how to make the carousel in bootstrap compatible with touch devices like smartphones and tablets.
A quick article to stop me running into this issue again. This article serves to address the issue of importing characters from an XML in a different language character set and trying to load it in PHP with the function simplexml_load_string(). The error I get is something similar to: PHP Warning: simplexml_load_string...
A quick article on how I displayed feeds from the company's social network pages in one page.
Applies to: PHP 5.4 MySQL 5.1.4 Databases initially setup with collation 'latin1_swedish_ci' What Another article trying to help people display foreign characters on their website without the funny question marks in diamond symbols and how I solved it in my case.
An article on how to quickly adapt an array code and sort by its values. Surprising how many examples are on the web and everyone saying you're doing it wrong... Which is true but quite unhelpful. The original code is not my own either but that's not an excuse. I also found that examples across the web were only partia...
I needed to use these in a template I was working on. Font awesome is a brilliant tool for webdevelopers who want icons that can be any size of any color without compromising on image quality or overhead maintenance. It's basically a font set that has all the icons you would want in a modern website design. How? To use...
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...
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