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I was working on a report for a client when I discovered this rather odd error: Fatal error: Trying to clone an uncloneable object of class mysqli. I am st

I have noticed a couple hits to my blog using the search term ‘How to replace the fuel line on a VW bus’. I have mentioned fuel lines a couple

Lastnight as I was researching how to build a plugin system for a cms I am working on I ran across several implementations using the __call method. I had n

I hadn’t intended on redoing any websites tonight, but while I was talking with maddslacker of my Linux group he mentioned that he did not like how h

A more in depth post is to follow when the entire procedure is done, but I feel so silly about this I just have to post it for all the world to share in la

I have a lookup table where I am using a composite key which must be unique. I was not sure if MySQL was able to do this or not, but I very quickly found o

The topic of MySQL and NULLs came up in my IRC room today. It turns out that MySQL tends to handle NULLs in a rather wonky way at times. Personally, I usua

I recently had a situation with a client where I needed to use an iframe to pull content from a bulletin board into their main site template. Setting up th

I call this an adventure because it was really more than a trip. A trip involves simply getting in your car, fueling up, and getting there. This is a tale

There are an overwhelming number of regex sequences out there to validate an email address against, and frankly I get tired of running through them all try

I find myself wanting random passwords all the time, and on a web project I needed to generate passwords automatically to send out to users. Here is the fu

Quite often I need to look into the database to see if a record exists. For example, to check if a username already exists when creating a new user. I crea