July 2008
PHP Countires, States, Provinces and Territories Array
Submitted by jebaird on Sat, 07/12/2008 - 00:00A couple of projects ago I needed the ability to have international users. I looked for some php functions that would make the task of registering users a little easier. I found some html lists and turned them into php functions that return arrays
Calculating Distance in Miles from Latitude and Longitude
Submitted by jebaird on Tue, 07/15/2008 - 00:00Finding good examples for Calculating Distance in Miles from Latitude and Longitude Using Mysql and PHP wasn’t as easy as I thought it would be. I thought I would compile the working quires and the functions that I wrote/found.
I found a very good paper on the topic at Scribd. I used one the the examples from this paper.
php session drop cookie fix for Internet Expoler
Submitted by jebaird on Fri, 07/25/2008 - 00:00I was updating some code on dirtondirt.com. We had changed the way sessions/logins where used on the site. Everything worked great in Firefox. But we were getting complaints that it was randomly dropping logged in users using IE . I was was not able to recreate the issue so it was very hard to troubleshoot. I believe that this method hacks around IE 4k size on disk issue (if the cookie is larger than 4k then IE has a tendency to drop it).After a couple hours of research I found these solutions.
