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 usually do not like allowing NULLs, and the only time they are ever present would be in a RIGHT or LEFT JOIN that had

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 the iframe was the easy part, then I noticed that the content would auto size the width, but it would not autosize the height. As I

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 of high stakes, deciet, drugs, and sleazy women…ok, maybe some of that is incorrect, but it was fairly crazy none the less. Follow along as

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 trying to find one that fits my situation. I went looking for one that most closely follows the IETF rules and lo and behold I find a document describing

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 function I use to create random passwords automatically. /** * Creates a random password * * @param Integer $length – Default: 9 * @param Integer $strength –