Add this snippet to your .htaccess file to automatically and visibly rewrite the URL entered by the user, to a single URL. i.e. ‘www.example.com/somepage/’ and ‘example.com/somepage/’ should both resolve to ‘www.example.com/somepage/’.
Forwarding non-www requests to www domain
June 7th, 2010Give your website an icon
June 6th, 2010Personalise your users experience with the use of a favicon.ico file. Web browsers check to see if you site has a Favourites Icon which allows a user to easily identify your website in their favourites list. Some browsers; most popularly Chrome, FireFox, and IE 7+; show the icon in the tabs for easy identification.
Pointing Website Root To osCommerce Catalogue Directory
May 31st, 2010This is a simple snippet and configuration change which you can use to point the root of your website to your installation directory, normally ‘catalog’. This would mean the URL in the address bar would become http://www.mydomain.com/index.php instead of http://www.mydomain.com/catalog/index.php. An amateur coder could easily modify this code for other web projects. Pointing website root to WordPress installation directory
Figures In Comfort Project Report
May 23rd, 2010
Figure Cases Product Listing (FIGURE 1)
Figures in comfort asked me to produce a method of ensuring that customers can only select the amount of foam that will fit into the cases.
The previous system allowed customers to choose more foam than would fit, which made it take longer for them to be able to fulfil the order.
This is because some trays are double, triple and even quadruple depth.
The client would first have to contact the customer to explain, costing time and money.
PHP Objects, The Basics
February 26th, 2010I have come across classes very often and use classes distributed on phpclasses.org such as phpMailer, an excellent class for sending emails using PHP. A class allows programmers to separate code from the main systems while being able to access and define variables for access outside the class, inside the class or just within one function in the class.
In this article I will discuss the general structure of a simple class and usage of a simple “HELLO” class as an example.
