A Texas rancher, visiting a South Dakota farmer friend, asked him to show him his farm. After seeing the 1,000 acre spread, the Texan bragged that down home he could get into his car, drive all day, and by evening would not have gotten to the distant point of his ranch. The South Dakotan simply [...]
The company I work for sometimes puts on what they call “Lunch and Learn” seminars during the employees’ lunchtime, dealing with a variety of physical and mental health issues. If the seminar lasts beyond the normal lunch hours, we’re supposed to get managerial approval to attend. So, last week, this flier came around: LUNCH AND [...]
Long ago, on New York’s lower east side, Mrs. Spinelli and Mrs.Goldberg were bragging about their respective abilities to overfeed dinner guests. With evident pride Mrs. Spinelli says, “When they walk home from my house, they’re all doubled-over.” Without a beat, Mrs. Goldberg answers, “From your house they can walk?”
A porter loaded down with suitcases followed the couple to the airline check-in counter. As they approached the line, the husband glanced at the pile of luggage and said to the wife, “Why didn’t you bring the piano, too?” “Are you trying to be funny?” she replied. “No, I really wish you had” he sighed. [...]
Two snails were standing on the side of the road, a turtle stopped and said, “Do you guys want a ride on my back”? One of the snails took him up on his offer and off he went. As the turtle reached the intersection another turtle came along and crashed into him. The poor little [...]
Top ten things you don’t want to hear from your real estate agent when you go to settlement on your new home: 1. “I think unexplained crop circles add a unique flair to any home’s garden.” 2. “Actually, it’s only the rear portion of the yard that overlaps the ancient Indian burial ground.” 3. “Yes, [...]
The following is an ad from a newspaper which appeared four days in a row – the last three hopelessly trying to correct the first day’s mistake. MONDAY: For sale: R. D. Jones has one sewing machine for sale. Phone 948-0707 after 7 P.M.. and ask for Mrs. Kelly who lives with him cheap. TUESDAY: [...]
The newly-married husband came home from the office to find his young wife in floods of tears. “Darling, whatever is the matter?” he asked. “Sweetheart,” she sobbed, “the most terrible thing has happened! I cooked my very first Beef Bourguignon for you, and I got it out of the oven to season it, and the [...]
Unable to attend the funeral after his Uncle Charlie died, a man who lived far away called his brother and told him, “Do something nice for Uncle Charlie and send me the bill.” Later, he got a bill for $200.00, which he paid. The next month, he got another bill for $200.00, which he also [...]
Sometimes when building web forms, you may need to collect multiple values for a single field. Perhaps you have a form which gives a list of common hobbies, and visitors can check all hobbies which interest them. But how do you get PHP to realize that the user has made multiple selections? All you need [...]
You may have noticed that scripts which take a long time to execute often display nothing but a blank “loading” page in the web browser until they finish running. If you find yourself in this situation with a script you’ve written, it’s possible to make the script output incrementally. To do this, use the flush() [...]
Are you struggling with “date math?” If you’ve fallen into the trap of converting string-based timestamps into month, day, year, hour, minute, and second, and then trying to perform some sort of math or calculations based upon these values, consider storing timestamps in epoch format instead. Today’s tip is a bit longer than usual but [...]
For months he had been her devoted admirer. Now, at long last, he had collected up sufficient courage to ask her the most momentous of all questions: “There are quite a lot of advantages to being a bachelor,” he began, “but there comes a time when one longs for the companionship of another being — [...]
If you have a need for a unique string, consider using PHP’s built in uniqid() function. uniqid() will return a string value based upon the current system time, comprised of both letters and numbers, such as “3e5f173a6d6ed.” This can be useful in a number of situations: – Creating unique order IDs – Generating default passwords [...]
“Everyone has feelings, except for snakes and principals.” – Donna Maria G, age 9 “Laugh and the world laughs with you, cry and the world laughs at you.” – Rob P, age 8 “If life gives you nothing but lemons, make up a better shopping list for it.” – Steven B, age 8 “Moses came [...]
Before using the rand() function, it’s a good idea to seed the random number generator first. This can be done with the srand() function. Its most common form is: srand((double)microtime() * 1000000); If you don’t take this step before using rand(), it’s possible – likely, even – that your “random” numbers will not necessarily be [...]
A woman was taking her time browsing through everything at a friend’s yard sale, and said to her, “My husband is going to be very angry I stopped at a yard sale.” “I’m sure he’ll understand when you tell him about all the bargains you found,” her friend replied. “Normally, yes,” she said. “But he [...]
If you want to read the contents of a file into a variable, it is not necessary to use the fopen(), fread(), and fclose() commands. Instead, take advantage of PHP’s file() command, which will read a file into an array which is automatically split on newlines: $text = file(“text.txt”); If you’d rather have the file [...]
My husband and I took our two-year-old daughter to the home-improvement store. Madison got tired of walking, so my husband let her ride on his shoulders. As he walked, Madison began pulling his hair. Although he asked her to stop several times, she kept on. Getting annoyed, he scolded, “Madison! Stop that!” “But, Daddy,” she [...]
When writing a MySQL query, it is not necessary to use escaped double quotes (\”) when representing literal strings within the query. Single quotes (apostrophes) will work fine. For example, the following two lines of code will perform the same query: $result = mysql_query(“SELECT foo FROM bar WHERE baz=\”test\””, $db); $result = mysql_query(“SELECT foo FROM [...]