Archive for the ‘Web’ Category
PHPMailer Bug: Headers showing in message body
PHPMailer is a handy little class which smoothes out the minefiled that is sending email with PHP. Okay, it’s not exactly difficult, but it’s not always striaghtforward either.
I did come across a niggly little bug in the latest release (2.3 at time of writing) which causes a large number of mail clients to incorrectly parse [...]
How to Install cURL support under Uniform Server 3.5 Apollo
Uniform Server 3.5 Apollo is an excellent environment for those of us who, for whatever reason, use Windows for PHP development. Unforunately it comes without cURL support. After a bit of digging I figured out (i’m no linux sysadmin) how fairly simple it is to get cURL up and running with uniserver.
The following assumes that [...]
Protocol Relative URLs
Remember the first time you realised that URLs could be relative? Did you know that they can be protocol relative too. I’m not ashamed to say that I didn’t. But, what do I mean by protocol relative?
Essentially a protocol relative URL will request external resources such as images and scripts in the context of the [...]
Encouraging IE6 Usage Trends
By this time next year, if IE 6’s usage pattern continues to match that of IE5, IE6 will be around 13% - iedeathmarch.org
In my opinion a 13% market share is still too high to drop IE6 support completely for anything intended for consumption by the general public. Let’s not forget that the majority of computer [...]
Pages Redirecting to a 404 Error Only in Internet Explorer
This one had me stumped. The control panel for our CMS worked fine, just as it had been since, well since forever. The problem was that when visited with Internet Explorer users were now being presented with a brief flash of the login page followed by a 404 Not Found error.
After repeatedly pummeling my desk [...]
