Category Archives: Programming

HTML Checkboxes

Occasionally, you discover something that you have been doing wrong for a long time.  Sometimes it wasn’t something outright wrong but was just stupid.  That is what happened to me. When using an HTML checkbox, it “POSTS” to the form submit page with the value of “on”.  I have always converted that on the page… Read More »

PHP and jQuery – Reduce Long String to Preview Length and Reveal Full Text OnClick

Goal: Reduce long string to specified length for end-user preview.  Reveal entire string when clicked.  Go back to preview when clicked again. Check out the php and jQuery code: https://gitea.rnsworth.com/ben/PublicPosts/src/commit/b4f180878df7edc1b7ab71918d566736d619c87b/PHP%20and%20jQuery%20-%20Reduce%20Long%20String%20to%20Preview%20Length%20and%20Reveal%20Full%20Text%20OnClick.md YHTSZWNS7R6V

C# Database Connections and Queries

Create connection string:SqlConnection conn = new SqlConnection(“Data Source=DATASOURCE\\\\SQLEXPRESS;Initial Catalog=DATABASE_NAME;Integrated Security=True”); try { conn.Open(); SqlCommand sql = new SqlCommand(“SELECT * FROM tableName”, conn); SqlDataReader reader = sql.ExecuteReader(); while (reader.Read()) { this.TARGET_ID.InnerHtml += reader[“column”] ; } } catch (SqlException sqle) { sqle.Message.ToString(); }

PHP explode and trim the results?

php.net – where I posted this Overview This is something that I used to use on this site before I went to WordPress. If you checked “view source” and looked at the meta keywords, you would notice a comma separated string. When programming, you may want to take a comma separated string and grab the… Read More »

JavaScript stripslashes

Sometimes you have to add slashes to javascript text. PHP has it built in, javascript does not. Here is the code to put into your javascript to get the same functionality: function addslashes(str) {      str=str.replace(/\\\\/g,’\\\\\\\\’);      str=str.replace(/\\’/g,’\\\\\\”);      str=str.replace(/\\”/g,’\\\\”‘);      str=str.replace(/\\0/g,’\\\\0’);      return str; } function stripslashes(str) {      str=str.replace(/\\\\’/g,’\\”);      str=str.replace(/\\\\”/g,'”‘);      str=str.replace(/\\\\0/g,’\\0’);… Read More »