Validating a phone number

April 19, 2008

Take few business cards or perhaps advertisements and see how they have shown the phone number. Here are some variants. Read more

Supporting many web sites with one database

April 19, 2008

If you are restricted by the web hosting company about how many databases you can create, there is a trick you can use to get the maximum out of that ‘single’ database. The answer is to use a prefix with tables. The secret is to use the key every time you refer the tables. Read more

Saving configuration information using key value pairs

April 16, 2008

There are times when you need to save configuration information for a project. I get this requirement time and again. Since most of my projects are database driven, I decided to use a database table dedicated to save this config info. I also developed few functions to read and set these settings. Read more