Wednesday, September 30, 2009

capture form post in ie using php

for over a week now i have been having the problem of capturing a form post in ie when coding in php. after searching forums, blogs, etc, i have found a solution. frankly, ie must stop use. this method can also be used when the button is an image. so, here is the solution.

if( $_POST['nameOfTextboxt'] || ( $_POST["buttonType"] == "nameOfButton" ) && ( count( $_POST > 0 ) ) ) {

//var_dump( $_POST );exit;
// do whatever you want to do
}

this worked for me

Sunday, September 27, 2009

window positions on ubuntu

to change the position of the close, maximize and minimize buttons, check out this thread:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=19413

switched back to the ubuntu theme

i have loved the look of a mac machine but i cant afford it. from one of the earlier posts on my blog, i said that i had completely switched to linux.

the closest i came to owning a mac was the mac theme i had on my laptop. it was ok, looked good but i grew tired of it after a while and as usual, wanted something new. so i removed it and now im back to the original look of ubuntu. its not that much of an eye candy but thats not why i am using it.

Linux Distro Test

for people who are interested in linux but do not know which distro to choose, you can take this test and find out.

http://polishlinux.org/choose/quiz/
http://www.zegeniestudios.net/ldc/index.php

my opinion, i would recommend, ubuntu. it has a nice user interface and its pretty easy to use and learn.

Saturday, September 26, 2009

hibernation on linux

i created another partition on my laptop & installed linux mint, i had a problem with the hibernation, to get it working i used this command swapon -a

Thursday, September 10, 2009

free fonts!!!!

i happen to accidentally delete all my true type fonts and i am now searching for fonts to install. i came accross this site that has some: http://www.broble.com/get/ubuntu-title/

Monday, September 7, 2009

sin animation

php number of days in month

in my search for a method to get the number of days in a given month in php, i found one method from the php.net site. it uses the t variable in the date function. i tested it and it returned 31 days for the month of september. i found another method at the about.com site. i like it. this is how it works: $noOfDaysInMonth = cal_days_in_month(CAL_GREGORIAN, $monthIndex, $year) ; it takes the month index and the year and returns the number of days in that month.