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Embedding images into your CSS is one of those things that might sound unfavourable but in fact gives you many benefits. First and foremost it can lower the number of requests your webpage needs to make, every connection to every resource requires a handshake, negotiation and then download. The more you have in one file, […]

Generally merging arrays in PHP is pretty straightforward given the built in functions on offer for developers. <?php $array1 = array(0 => “data1”, 1 => “data2”, 3 => “data”); $array2 = array(1 => “data”); $result = array_merge($array1, $array2); ?> Given the above array its obvious how simple merging 2 arrays can be. The expected result […]

Keeping an eye on your servers DNSBL report is very important, a DNSBL is a blacklist of IP addresses that are logged when Spam is detected or when a host suspects spam emails coming from an IP, they are useful for thwarting spammers and they do a really good job. Unfortunately for us legitimate WebMasters, […]

I recently needed to look at a few Windows Icon Files (.ico) and wanted to be able to load them into Photoshop in case I wanted to make edits to the icons, and well we use Photoshop for all our editing so it would have been just the most convenient instead of having a completely […]

There are various ready-made and well maintained PHP libraries for converting/processing XLSX – and by no means are these libraries bad, they have a ton of features for creating/editing and reading XLSX files. Two libraries I have tried personally are PHPEXCEL or the newer library PHPSpreadsheet. So what is the problem with these? They cater for […]

A client of ours has had an issue recently where their website ended up being Age Restricted by all the popular mobile networks, basically anyone who has not unlocked their mobile network for 18+ content and whom tries to visit the clients website gets an age restriction warning asking them to contact their provider and […]

So recently I wanted to be able to sort a HTML table column using Javascript, I wanted to be able to sort ASC or DESC flipping the order on multiple clicks of the column. The table was going to be pretty big so another important factor was speed, it had to run as fast as […]

Apache is a beast, a big untamed beast that sometimes releases a huge surprise that confuses, perplexes and even scares the living shit out of you, such as when you realise that Apache doesnt care about multiple slashes (empty directories?? WHAT ON EARTH?!?), which I have just coined #slashesgate. So what is this seriously messed up […]

Security is very on both sides of the table when it comes to websites and servers, for one it’s good for you as the server administrator as you and your clients are less likely to be compromised in any fashion, and of course it is something to boast about. This is also true for the […]

Sometimes with Contact Form 7 you may have many forms, we have clients with 20+ forms on each of their sites, and sometimes you may with all your forms were sent to various staff members which change over time, the annoyance of Contact Form 7 is that to handle this you have to edit each […]