Nick Van der Vrekens blog & portfolio

A quick note to let you know I will be updating the portfolio section of this website soon. I don’t know if anyone really cares about the portfolio section but here’s a note anyway.

I will not be releasing a new version of Fhi-zin and the AJAX class due to a severe time shortage, sorry to keep you waiting ;-)

bbye

Advanced PHP Query function

February 20th, 2009

PHP

Today’s web applications are becoming more and more advanced, and most of them are relying on data stored in databases. In most cases several queries have to be executed to get the initial data in the application, so a quick way to get this job done would be usefull. Thats why I’ve made this advanced PHP query function to use in my own projects, but I’m sure many of you will find it usefull too.

Some of its features are custom SQL parameters like LAST_INSERTED_ID or INSERT_ID_FROM(n), executing different queries in one line of code, quickly returning SELECT queries as arrays, returning the new ID as the query result for INSERT-statements and so on.


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This article has been posted on the official WordPress Codex

WordPress has introduced Custom Fields for some time now, but not many people seem to know how to use them. Today I’ll try to give you some enlightenment about this, and explain how they work or what they can be used for.

I’ve been using Custom Fields in my themes too, and have created a function which enables an unlimited amount of images, files, links, flying cows or *whatever* to be attached to your posts and pages.  There are probably alot more people that can benefit from this method, so feel free to use it. I’ll explain how to do this in this post.


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Playr is an open source Flash Actionscript 3 class which takes the heavy lifting off your hands and makes the building of any kind of music player a piece of cake. Yes! Thats the short description right there.

If you need a music player in your site, this is what you need. Playr makes it incredible easy to implement any kind of music player in your flash website. And the best part of it, you only need two (2!) lines of actionscript to get it working.

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Fhi-zin is one of the best Wordpress themes for Portfolio and Photography websites on the web, and with its unique design it doesn’t even look like a Wordpress website ! On top of that, its completely driven by an AJAX engine, is Googlefriendly, SEO-optimised and capable of attaching an unlimited amount of images on each post.



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