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well, sometimes I think just writing down the problem helps. Here’s what i have, it’s a little ugly in one place but otherwise not too shabby.
This is the finished mark up from my form (I’m asking a user to select the bitrate of an mp3.) I’m trying to recreate this with php and retain [...]
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Setting a select list with php
hmmm. I’m having trouble writing something elegant to set the value of a select box using php. The situation i want to use this in is right after the user has submitted a form and it has failed to validate (for example because the user missed a field, failed to enter numeric data where they [...]
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bool?
Something that was causing me grief today was the boolean data type in phpmyadmin. I was trying to create a table field using the BOOLÂ and every time I thought I succeeded in doing so phpmyadmin would change it to TINYINT. bah.
Well, it seems using a true or false is fine when constructing a query [...]
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system plan
first, heres a link to my system plan from last week. The weak part of it is the lack of any meaningful personas… <whinge> as far as the ‘real world’ goes my project is vaguely plausible but I haven’t really put a lot of effort into justifying it (aiming it at real users, finding a [...]
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mock up pages
warning: long rambling post ahead.
I’m running a little bit behind schedule partly due to devoting time to other subjects and also because even though I tried not to spend too much time mucking about with the visuals, I probably did anyway Anyway, I’ve got the page design down and what I’ve come [...]
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micro & macro
Final Micro/ macro analysis. I forgot to post this earlier in the week:
Hopefully over the next couple of days I’ll post up some pages for my project (photoshop mockups and the html/css only) which I will plug into the final where they will be created dynamically with php.
My learning proposal included a diagram charting the [...]
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designing the database
I had a go at sketching out what I’d need in terms of a database for my webapp. This is only a starting point and you can be sure there’ll be a lot tweaking and rewriting before it’s ready…also as my other subject progresses (it’s on database design), there will likely be a lot [...]
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final learning proposal
Final learning proposal is up. Click here.
Ive decided to develop a small web application which will distribute files to users who create an account based on the preferences they indicate when subscribing.
For the purposes of the project I’ve decided to use the model of a music subscription service. I figure that this will give me [...]
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User password strength widget
For most of the week my project proposal was still in limbo awaiting feedback, so I passed the time doing a little research without getting stuck into the really detailed planning. I’ve been reading up on security such as session id’s and cookies as well as a little background on keeping my database safe [...]
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learning proposal
Whoops. Forgot to post this the other day. Learning proposal is up.
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