Paul Cracknell

Stand out from the crowd with this WordPress Theme

I have been scouring around trying to find something that is a little bit different and I think I have found it. It is Crea which has a unique oriental theme but look beyond that and see how it works.  No scolling down the page to moves left and right with content in boxes that is neat and tidy.  I really like it and if you don’t get it I …

What makes a popular website?

Well, we all want to have a popular website but with literally millions of websites on the net you have to try a little harder to stand out from the rest.  So what makes a successful and popular website. To discover this we need to know a little about ourselves.  First off, you have probably heard the expression ‘don’t judge a book by it’s cover’.  Of course the content of …

No batch image processor in Bridge CS4

I use the batch image processor in Bridge to batch process hundreds of files.  To my surprise when I went to tools>photoshop>batch process  it was no longer there.  The only thing that remained was the cache option.  I looked at forums and this has happened to others.  There appears to be no fix.  This is very frustrating.  I checked the preferences for the start up scrips, restarted the PC.  In …

How to check you WordPress theme before sumitting it to WordPress Themes

If you have had the urge to deveolp a WordPress theme and to submit it to the WordPress theme depository you should do some automated checking so that your chances of approval are increased.  I can admit that it is a little bit denting to an ego if you think it is awesome and then you get back a rejection email with a bunch of stuff to fix.  Well to …

Simpolio Premium WordPress Theme

I am always on the lookout for new and different photography templates for WordPress. The Simpolio fits that bill easily.  Just take a look at the introduction and then the flexability for displaying images.  This would be ideal for a photographer with a good selection of images to promote their work.  Just take a look to see what I mean.…

PHP back button

Looking for a previous page or back button this is how it is done.

@$back = htmlspecialchars($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']);
echo "Previous Page";
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PHP & MySQL find the last entry in the database

So you are looking for the last entry in a table for your database that has auto increment.  Well I have this to share with you. Use the mysql_insert_id() function.

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mysql_query("INSERT INTO table1 (product) values ('$somethin')");
$lastID = mysql_insert_id();

You need to combine the insert command and then use the mysql_insert_id function to create a variable that holds the …