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AJAX for updating other fields

January 6, 2009 by Cotton Rohrscheib Leave a Comment

Here is a cool trick for utilizing AJAX to update other fields on pages inside of PHPR code. I have to thank Giles for pointing out calculation.js to me, see his notes below in this post. The problem I wanted to solve was updating many price fields on a page as the user entered data […]

Pulling URL from _table_search.php

January 6, 2009 by Cotton Rohrscheib Leave a Comment

If you are using PHPR (phprunner) as your IDE to develop your PHP applications in here’s a trick that you are likely going to appreciate at some point in your coding career. If you utilize the advanced search feature in your applications (not the standard inline search, but the advanced search) and you would like […]

Beau Lebens Facebook Connect

January 5, 2009 by Cotton Rohrscheib 6 Comments

I have going back and forth w/ Beau Lebens today after reading his How To blog post on Dented Reality discussing his variation of the Facebook Connect application and after testing it today, it’s a very clean plug-in and it seems to work very smoothly. In his blog post he also outlines all of the […]

Facebook Connect Test

January 1, 2009 by Cotton Rohrscheib 12 Comments

Some of you that follow my blog will remember that I have been testing Facebook Connect on my personal blog using some code written by Javier Reyes of Six Jumps that he was kind enough to share with me. I have to admit that I have struggled to get my mind around this platform but […]

Building a WordPress Plugin

December 27, 2008 by Cotton Rohrscheib Leave a Comment

Glen Stansberry posted a good guide to building a wordpress plugin on nettuts.com and I thought that it was worth re-posting here for those of you who have considered building your own wordpress plugin. It’s really good information. When it comes to adding extra functionality to a WordPress blog, WordPress users typically go and search for […]

SQL Truncate & mt_rand()

September 18, 2008 by Cotton Rohrscheib Leave a Comment

For anyone that may have wondered why the upgrade to 2.6.2 was so important, here’s a pretty good explanation I found on WordPress Developers Blog tonight. It has to do with a SQL column truncation issue that could basically alter users login credentials, etc. Stefan Esser recently warned developers of the dangers of SQL Column […]