New mtvan booking page

I’ve just finished putting the final touches on a new mtvan booking page. It replaces a rather old and clunky version that I did when I was first starting out building dynamic websites in PHP. So what have I improved… … Continue reading

PEAR Date Daylight Saving Bugs

The clocks went forward in the UK last night and fortunately I was working on a site today which involved manipulating dates and times between timezones so I immediately noticed a problem in PEAR Date that I have been using … Continue reading

UK dates and strtotime

In PHP, strtotime cannot parse the UK date format (i.e. 30/02/2011) as there’s no 30th month. Here’s a quick fix I came across that seems to work for me (so far)… Just replace the “/” with a “-” before parsing … Continue reading

jQuery slideDown problem on IE7

Just run into a problem with IE7 when coding up a fairly complex web form that needs to shrink and grow depending on the amount of detail the user wants to enter. After an hour of fiddling around and a … Continue reading