The second day of the conference kicked off with a keynote by Brian Aker, the director of architecture for MySQL AB. Brian is an excellent speaker, and didn't let the problems with the projector distract him from his talk on scalable web architectures. As I have not worked on Amazon-sized projects before, a lot of […]

I'm in Vancouver attending the Vancouver PHP Association Conference 2007. Registration was fast, and I was impressed that we all got a free t-shirt and key chain mini-tool. Why impressed? Because I paid just $100 for my conference pass! The php|works conference in Sept '05 had a registration fee about 6 times this amount, yet […]

This data export script has turned out to be quite useful for me. Assuming that others might also find uses for it, I'm sharing the source code. If you have the need to export MySQL data to a tab-delimited spreadsheet, then the Data Export Utility is for you!

Phorm is an excellent form processor written in PHP that I use on a number of websites. Here's some copy-and-paste code that will come in handy if you require a drop down menu with U.S. states and Canadian provinces on your form.
First, here's the PHP code for your form's config file.
Now here's the HTML […]