August 2008
php forcing SSL Connection
I 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.
JW player with SWFObject
Recently i was working on a project that required a flash media player. I was trying to integrate JW FLV Media Player using SWFObject. After losing a few hours of my life trying to pass a variable in a query string to a php script that generated a XML play list, I stumbled upon/discovered this solution.
the JW FLV Media Player documentation currently reads like this