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mfrank

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Professional Developer of SwhistleSoft

MySQL Singleton Class to allow easy and clean access to common mysql commands

Posted on August 5, 2011 by mfrank

The MySQL Database class is implemented using the singleton design pattern. This design pattern allows for only one single instance of the object. This one instance can then be obtained through a static method. This provides a convenience in that … Continue reading →

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Database PHP Session Handling

Posted on August 5, 2011 by mfrank

Database PHP Session Handling As you should be aware the HTTP protocol, as used for serving web pages, is completely stateless. This means that after the server has received a request, processed it and sent a response, the process which … Continue reading →

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A JQuery Print Library that fixes the IE7 Shrink-to-Fit issue

Posted on August 5, 2011 by mfrank

There is an option in most browsers called “Shrink-to-Fit”. This is a page setup configuration that, if turned on, will attempt to scale the web page in size to make it fit on the selected paper size you are printing … Continue reading →

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JQuery UI Draggable – data(…)options is null or not an object in IE7

Posted on July 11, 2011 by mfrank

I was working on a project that allows the users to create a list of names in their account. They could then take a name from the global list and drag it to a recipients list to send a mass … Continue reading →

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Disappearing JSTree when using Themeroller

Posted on July 11, 2011 by mfrank

I am currently working on a project that utilizes a MySQL Nested Folder database design and a JQuery component called JSTree. The implementation actually works great. The system allows users to create “folders” for content and provides the ability to … Continue reading →

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How to ZIP files with PHP

Posted on October 24, 2010 by mfrank

Most web servers these days run on a LAMP configuration (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP). Because the Operating System is Linux, the default archival and compression utilities are TAR and GZIP resulting in files like “filename.tar.gz”. There is nothing wrong with … Continue reading →

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Free SEO Tools – Part 1

Posted on October 14, 2010 by mfrank

Looking for the best tools and techniques to improve your rankings? The tools listed here are some of the best available SEO tools you will find on the Internet, and best of all they are all FREE.

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