A while ago I starting playing around with Laravel on my GoDaddy Hosting account.  GoDaddy makes it really easy to… Read more Installing Laravel on GoDaddy Shared Hosting Site

As mentioned in my last post, I tried out CakePHP, which is a PHP framework for web development.  I like… Read more CakePHP to Laravel

My latest discovery in the world of PHP is CakePHP.  It is a framework for developing web applications in PHP.… Read more CakePHP

This post is about some difficulty I had in making an Apache OpenOffice Base “odb” front end work with an… Read more Mixing OpenOffice/LibreOffice, MySQL, MacOS/Windows, and ODBC/JDBC

Like many, I’ve often downloaded financial transactions from my bank’s web site.  The options for my bank (in Canada), is… Read more Importing bank transactions

While using PHP to display web pages drawing on a MySQL database, I’ve had some difficulty with strings in non-English… Read more PHP/MySQL Multibyte Characters

I’ve recently had to import a large Excel spreadsheet into MySQL.  Of course, there’s lots of ways of doing this,… Read more Importing Excel spreadsheet into MySQL

I wrote a little PHP script that shows data from any table in an HTML table, and I had a… Read more How to keep fixed width HTML tables/columns fixed

I’m using Apache OpenOffice Base 4 with MySQL 5.6.  I noticed some question marks appeared where I should have seen… Read more Weird Characters in OpenOffice Base with MySQL

So, I had a weird error with MySQL 5.6 Win 64 server.  Every time I tried to insert a record,… Read more MySQL can’t insert without default val on auto-increment