Many changes to dog database (haven’t updated in a few years), many new additions.
Author Archives: billb
phpGedView [Genealogy]
Updated phpGedView from version 4.1.1 to 4.2.3
Calendar PDF
Modify Calendar programs to generate nice PDF calendar’s that can be printed. Much harder than the simple PDF I created on 10/28/09.
Dynamic PDF
Added a PHP program that dynamically generates a PDF report. I generate a birthday report based on the current day. Data is read from the SQL Birthday database. I use the FPDF library.
Google ads
Went to my dog-size.com website and noticed that the Google ads displayed a green rectangle where the ads should have been. Supplied the missing info to google. And created a privacy policy from a sample on one of their forum pages. This seemed to restore the ads.
Change PHP extensions
Change file extensions of older programs from ‘.php3’ to ‘.php’.
AJAX (Not Comet)
Add some simple AJAX web pages.
Python weather program
Rewrote my Python weather program to create Web page by extracting XML data instead of a HTML web page. Hopefully the XML data won’t change as much as the web page.
Home page with CSS
Redesign Home page, About page and Other page to use CSS with no table’s. Much cleaner.
Fixed Dogs database
Fixed Dogs database problem with some foreign names not displaying correctly. Records displayed OK in Windows but did not import correctly in MySQL. Solution was to open the SQL text import file using the Windows PSPad editor and change format from ANSI to UTF-8 and then import this file. Also added new feature where you …