Sometime back I was trying to put unicode characters(utf-8) in the title of a blog from wp-admin > settings > general. After saving it became like ?????????.
All pages had utf-8 in their meta tags so the issue was somewhere else. A working solution was found :
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MDB Viewer is a tool which can be used to open and view mdb files on Linux.
On Ubuntu it can be installed from synaptic via the command :
sudo apt-get install mdbtools-gmdb
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While creating a table a particular column / field can be made autoincrement as :
CREATE TABLE students ( id INTEGER NOT NULL GENERATED ALWAYS AS IDENTITY (START WITH 1, INCREMENT BY 1), name VARCHAR(24) NOT NULL, address VARCHAR(1024), CONSTRAINT primary_key PRIMARY KEY (id) ) ;
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To go back to the previous page the superglobal variable $_SERVER can be used.
$_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] has the link to the previous page.
So to redirect simply :
#Method to go to previous page
function goback()
{
header("Location: {$_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']}");
exit;
}
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The numerical system used in India differs from the Western system in terms of the placement of the thousands separator.
Example :
Number -> 1000000
Indian System -> 10,00,000 (Ten Lakh)
Western System -> 1,000,000 (1 Million)
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Opening a domain as domain.com or www.domain.com takes to the same page. From the SEO perspective , many suggest that search engines may consider the two to be different sites. So the fix is to apply a redirection to redirect domain.com to www.domain.com
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bit.ly is a simple url shortner which has an api , which can be called from within php to shorten links.
Code :
function get_short_url($url)
{
$bitly_login = "your_login_name";
$bitly_apikey = "your_api_key";
$api_call = file_get_contents("http://api.bit.ly/shorten?version=2.0.1&longUrl=".$url."&login=".$bitly_login."&apiKey=".$bitly_apikey);
$bitlyinfo=json_decode(utf8_encode($api_call),true);
if ($bitlyinfo['errorCode'] == 0)
{
return $bitlyinfo['results'][urldecode($url)]['shortUrl'];
}
else
{
return false;
}
}
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To create a .deb package file on Ubuntu you need a utility called checkinstall.
sudo apt-get install checkinstall
1. Extract the source of the application in a folder.
2. Run : ./configure
3. Run : make
4. Now run : sudo checkinstall
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Here is the simple code to put flash animation (swf file) on a webpage.
<object width="550" height="350" data="myalbum.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"> <param name="quality" value="high" /> <param name="id" value="tech" /> <param name="name" value="tech" /> <param name="src" value="myalbum.swf" /> </object>
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