Chris Hope's Electric Toolbox LAMP Blog

I mentioned in my Using + to merge arrays with PHP post the other day that I've recently started a new job and one of the interesting things about working with other people's code is the new stuff you ...

If a window has been opened with the Javascript window.open function, that window can be referenced using window.opener. This post shows some examples about how to do this.

A little while back I posted how to extract the domain, path, etc from a url with PHP and in this follow up post show how to extract the query string into an associative array using the parse_str function.

My monthly stats round up posts a summary of the most read posts over the previous month, numbers of visitors to the blog and any changes I have made over the month that may have affected visitor numbers etc. This is the monthly stats roundup for October 2009.

Following up a couple of earlier posts about get the mouse co-ordinates with jQuery and how to get the co-ordinates when an element is clicked, this post looks at how to do both of these but with co-ordinates relative to the element itself so i.e. ...

I've been working at a new job and the interesting thing when working with other people's code is you often learn a heap of stuff you didn't already know. A couple of weeks ago I came across a way to merge arrays in PHP with the + operator, instead of using the array functions (e.g. ...

This post is a quick followup to my rant piece from a couple of days ago about Windows 7 upgrade pricing. I've since found some not quite so nasty pricingand that maybe Home Premium is all I need after all.

I guess Microsoft want people to move to OS/X and Linux...

Hello people. Yes, there have been no new posts for a few days but they are coming :) My second son Sam was born on Tuesday so life is a bit crazy just now. There might possibly be a new PHP post tomorrow. But if not, something's coming real soon!

I started working for a company 4 days a week 4 weeks ago and do some other work on the 5th day and it's been hard keeping up writing a post per day on my blog. That, and our new baby that will be born by cesarean a week today, means I need to be a bit more realistic about my posting schedule.

Last week I looked at how to use letters and roman numerals instead of numbers in an HTML ordered list and in this week's HTML post look at how the numbering can be started from a number other than the default 1.

My last jQuery post looked at how to get the mouse co-ordinates with jQuery as the mouse moves around the page or over a particular element. This post looks at how to get the mouse co-ordinates when an element is clicked.