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What, who, where am I?!?
Craig Lotter is a web developer based in Gordon's Bay, South Africa, who seems completely incapable of shaking off that pesky inner child within, the one that forces him to love all things animated or hand drawn.
The Rugged Rock of Craig contains snippets of his life, popular culture and all the important things like anime, manga, games and comic books. The CodeUnit of Craig on the other hand contains the more serious stuff like code snippets and tutorials, while the House of C chronicles his foray into the world of web comics.
For which it never seems he has enough time anyway.
CodeUnit Post Archive
Category Archives: Technology & Code
PHP: File Upload Error Code
When handling file uploads via enctype=”multipart/form-data” forms in PHP, you’ll be pleased to know that PHP doesn’t just leave you high and dry but instead returns some pretty helpful error codes to let you know when something goes wrong. Continue reading
PHP: Strtotime and Handling Different Date Formats
Strtotime is a powerful date manipulating ally of any PHP developer, but unfortunately it doesn’t really respond to locale settings all that well, meaning that should you not be an American, in other words your dates don’t look like the silly MM/DD/YYYY format, it can return some rather strange and unexpected results! Continue reading
PHP: Page Redirecting with Header… and Die()
I make use of PHP’s handy header function to handle simple page redirects for me, perhaps a bit of a cheap way of doing it, but one that is remarkable effective. Sure, you need to change the way you code a little and perhaps introduce some ob_start and ob_end_flush calls if necessary, but on the whole a good old header(‘Location: newpage.htm’) call works pretty damn well. Continue reading
Posted in Technology & Code, Tutorials
Tagged die, header, location, page redirect, PHP, redirect
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jQuery: Change the Selected Index of a Dropdown List
To change the selected value, or selected index if you will, of a dropdown list using jQuery is not particularly difficult. Continue reading
Posted in Technology & Code, Tutorials
Tagged dropdown, jQuery, list, select, selectedindex
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PHP: Random Color Generator Function
Although I’ve posted simple random color generating code snippets before, I’ve noticed since that most of them have a flaw in that they sometimes don’t always produce a proper six character long hex color code. Continue reading
