Most PC users fail to recognize the importance of the Power Supply Unit. They purchase a PC power supply based on its total wattage, believing that a higher wattage means better performance. Others just don’t pay attention to the power supply unit and continue using whatever they receive with their machine. A PSU just does… Read More »
LXDE Desktop Lxde (Lightweight X11 desktop environment) is a linux desktop system that is a lightweight alternative to gnome and kde desktops. I prefer it over gnome because of its simplicity and ease of use. Gnome as of version 3 has a strange user interface that is not liked by all. So if you too… Read More »
When using PATH_INFO , the urls of codeignitor apps or your custom MVC looks like this index.php/controlller/method/param1/param2 or /controlller/method/param1/param2 Now if the parameters contain a forward slash then you would urlencode it as : index.php/controlller/method/par%2Fam1/param2 But opening that kind of URL would give an error : Page Not Found This happens if AllowEncodedSlashes directive of… Read More »
AcceptPathInfo Directive The AcceptPathInfo directive is a useful feature of apache. It detects any path information in a url following the actual script name and passes it to php as an environment variable in $_SERVER superglobal. Php mvc based frameworks often use such urls that have additional path information after a script name. This is… Read More »
Altering the sequence of fields of a table was a feature I was looking for in OpenOffice Base. It is not directly possible to drag the columns or fields and alter their sequence. A SQL workaround can do the same thing. If the sequence of fields is : name , email , address , phone… Read More »
Till recently most of my php scripts were working fine on the servers with instantaneous outputs as and when a echo statement came. One issue that popped a lot on localhost was that of chunky outputs; that is the outputs of big scripts came out in chunks rather than smoothly with every echo or print… Read More »