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Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_web_browsers Year Web Browsers Internet Users (in millions) 1991 WorldWideWeb 1992 ViolaWWW, Erwise, MidasWWW, MacWWW 1993 Mosaic, Cello, Lynx 2.0, Arena, AMosaic 1.0 1994 IBM WebExplorer, Netscape Navigator, SlipKnot 1.0, MacWeb, IBrowse, Argo, Minuet 1995 Internet Ex...
The concept - typically drawings, words, models, code and basic prototypes that describe the nature, objectives and features of the website. Design document - a detailed plan of the website’s features and how it will display are generated from the concept and presented to potential publishers. Technology demo – a proto...
This is if you have an FLV file and you don't want any fancy management system, you just want your FLV to play on your webpage. The following example is a demonstration of how to do this without installing anything on your webserver. I like to use flowplayer for this example but my own systems can't use a solution as c...
I could apply the PRINCE2 (Projects in a controlled environment) methodology to website projects but most people find this overwhelming. It's in business techno babble and I get asked what does this mean in stage 1? And this in stage 2? (There are over 100 stages)... Below is my template project initiation plan (projec...
I've decided to put something in here as it took me an age to find out how I could do it. This is when using a MySQL query within a PHP script. The process is used often to do a statistics table or top ten chart of your data (eg. movies, music, etc). My aim is to do the following: retrieve data from a table, count the...
I'm beginning a list as I've just spent an age trying to get PHP output to create a text file. Then my client showed me how she then opens the text file in Excel, so I said we could get the script to do that instead.PHP to TXT header('Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8'); header('Content-Disposition: attachment; f...
The Error: This file contains HTML or script code that may be erroneously interpreted by a web browser This is a common error when uploading files that the MediaWiki system does not allow. By making some minor changes to the MediaWiki LocalSettings.php file, we can fix this. For demo purposes, I'm going to make our sys...
The Issue If you've ever made PHP scripts to process data within a LAMP environment (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) then this happens a lot. In the following example, our HTML form will allow the user to specify a date (so excludes hours, minutes and seconds). For demonstration purposes, I'm going to be using the European...
The Issue Basically you have a HTML form with an input field type of 'FILE' (ie. <input type="file" name="file_to_upload" />) and want a PHP file to process this. This example applies to a Linux Apache MySQL PHP (LAMP) environment. The Solution 1. The first thing to do is check that your HTML form is setup to do this:
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