CURL is built-in to the usual up-to-date PHP distributions. (You may need to enable it in php.ini). CURL lets you programmatically transfer files using all the usual protocols, such as HTTP and FTP. Among other things, it lets you write PHP to simulate posting forms. In other words, it's useful for some…
Kerry Francis offers child counselling services viaĐ’ www.letstalk.co.nz/. She asked me about providing a zip file download for sale via Paypal. The zip file contains PDF activity files and audio files, though for our download purposes all zip files are the same. The site already used a Paypal basket for off-line sales, so…
This database collected telemetry from the very first UK windfarm, in the early 1990's, in North Cornwall. This was very early in the history Access, probably v 1.1. The Cornwall Camborne School of Mines ran a project to help monitor the Delabole wind farm, the first of its kind in the UK.…
The World Aid database originally existed as a DOS system for public use in the foyer of the UK DTI offices at Victoria in London. It allowed visitors to look up development aid projects around the world from a database of over 18,000 records. I converted it to run in the Microsoft…
CITS was developed for the DTI as a Microsoft Access based system designed to manage communications (visits, meetings, mail, phonecalls) between the DTI and external contacts. If a DTI Officer is planning a meeting or visit, he/she can log it on CITS. A list of the other other attendees can be accumulated…
Ben Dyer at Semore Seismics was understandably bothered that his site was invisible on Google for a handful of key phrases. It was a good site, technically "correct" (ie it had nearly perfect HTML validation ie W3C compliant) neatly implemented by Brandlab in PHP, a few months earlier. It also had been…
