Populate Developer blogs

The Populate developer blogs are a collection of articles about the technology our developers use on a daily basis. This section will hopefully not only help other developers overcome some of the problems we've encountered over the years but will also demonstrate the effectiveness of blogs as an SEO tool...
Calculating an age on a given date with php 16 Jan 2012 | Posted by: Paul whittington | Comments: 0
I needed to calculate an age on a given date recently and it takes more thought than meets the eye...
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Sorting PHP associative arrays 29 Sep 2011 | Posted by: Paul Whittington | Comments: 0
Do you need to sort a php associative array by a value in one of the keys, heres a function to just that
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php prepared (parameterized) statements into arrays php prepared (parameterized) statements into arrays 7 Sep 2011 | Posted by: Paul Whittington | Comments: 0
A couple of functions to get data from a database into an associative array using prepared or parametized queries, that therefore overcome the danger of sql injection.
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Solving 'This page contains both secure and nonsecure items' errors Solving 'This page contains both secure and nonsecure items' errors 21 Jul 2011 | Posted by: Paul Whittington | Comments: 0
Having trouble getting rid of 'this page contains both secure and nonsecure items' errors?
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How to embed CSS cross browser fonts using CSS3 How to embed CSS cross browser fonts using CSS3 7 Jun 2011 | Posted by: Keir Cleland | Comments: 0
Being able to embed whichever font you wish is the dream of web developers everywhere. No more time consuming excursions into photoshop to cut up page titles or navagation elements.
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Creating a conditional CSS with PHP Creating a conditional CSS with PHP 9 Mar 2011 | Posted by: Paul Whittington | Comments: 1
Creating a conditional CSS file, mainly to avoid the issues of IE6 but also to allow easier modifications to mobile device stylesheets.
82% rating, 1 comments
Does google follow javascript onclick events? Does google follow javascript onclick events? 15 Dec 2010 | Posted by: Paul Whittington | Comments: 2
Research into how Google follows certain links
70% rating, 2 comments
How to use z-indexing in CSS How to use z-indexing in CSS 7 Apr 2010 | Posted by: Keir Cleland | Comments: 0
Learn how to enhance your web pages using the z-index property
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Using the Twitter widget Using the Twitter widget 8 Apr 2010 | Posted by: Keir Cleland | Comments: 2
How to add an HTML Twitter widget to your website
62% rating, 2 comments
Resizing images with PHP Resizing images with PHP 7 Apr 2010 | Posted by: Paul Whittington | Comments: 0
A PHP function using GDLIb
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PHP upload progress bar PHP upload progress bar 7 Apr 2010 | Posted by: Paul Whittington | Comments: 4
Creating a php upload progress bar in PHP is notoriously difficult...
73% rating, 4 comments