Archive for 'web development'

What I like about Javascript frameworks

The thing I like about Javascript frameworks so far is that I don’t seem to be having the same kind of browser compatibility issues I used to have when I used to write most of my Javascript from scratch.  All of the browser incompatibilities have been abstracted to me so I don’t have to worry [...]

Firefox 3.0 and the Web Developer Toolbar

Two new quirks with Firefox 3.0 and my Web Developer Toolbar: 1.)  I can’t do CTRL+SHIFT+S to not show the styles on my page.  Instead my bookmarks show up on a sidebar.  Boo. 2.)  I can’t do CTRL+SHIFT+Y to inspect a particular element in the DOM and see where it sits in the DOM.  Instead, [...]

Oracle vs. MySQL (my experience)

I didn’t know you had to say “commit;” after any SQL statement in Oracle to have the changes take effect. Maybe I’m stupid but no one ever taught me this, lol.

Handling jQuery serialize() on the backend with PHP

My goal for this one situation is to validate all my form data with my backend PHP code through AJAX. If all the checks on my form don’t go through successfully, the page will not go to the next page specified in the HTML form’s “action” attribute. On the Javascript side I use the serialize() [...]

Using PHP’s putenv() function to set environment variables and connecting to an Oracle database

Yay, my first real technical blog post! I’ve been trying to tackle this issue for a while. I’ve been making a connection to an Oracle database using PHP, but I’d have to modify the environment variables to tell PHP where to find the Oracle installation and the tnsnames.ora file. To do this, I would use [...]