Over the weekend, I posted three new code snippets:

The Image Upload Form has everything you need to create a simple HTML form allowing users to upload their own JPEG images. After it verifies that the image is valid, it saves it and generates a thumbnail using the PHP GD library of image functions. The code is clean, so it’s pretty easy to manipulate it to suit your needs (other file formats, different resizing, etc.)

The Cron Job Tester is the result of an epic battle I had with the server hosting one of my client’s sites. I couldn’t figure out why these cron jobs weren’t running and so constructed this little tester to simply log an entry in a text file every minute. From there, I was eventually able to find out that the host’s “Easy Cron” function was overwriting my crontab file. Arrrgh…

Finally, I posted the PHP code to Copy All the Rows in a MySQL Table to another, identical MySQL table. You can, of course, do this easily in phpMyAdmin, but I needed to have the function automated for this particular project. Hopefully you can get some use out of it too.

I’ve been trying to juggle a million different projects lately and haven’t had much of a chance to write up here. I wish I could just pause time for a month or two and get caught up on this gigantic checklist of tasks that I want to get done on my sites.

One of the bigger tasks on the list is switching all the Lantenengo Industries stuff over to Ink Plant (I’m going to be officially changing my business name in the near future for branding reasons). Tonight, I got a decent-sized chunk of that switch taken care of: I closed down my old blog (redirecting it to here, of course) and pulled out the code snippets that I had published there, creating the new Code section of this site.

I also published a new code snippet that generates the PHP to display a MySQL table automatically. I’ve probably written this out by hand a couple hundred times, so it’ll be nice to finally have this little shortcut. Hopefully some of you will benefit from it too. Enjoy!