Tips and Tricks

A list of user-submitted tips & tricks

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searching
native SQL
databases
• Cloning a Record • Export data to Excel • Find duplicate records • Database backup
shopping
browser info
• AJAX and WEBDNA • reCAPTCHA code • Setting a 30-minute Cookie
technical
• ImageMagick • PayPal gateway • PayPal IPN • Check the Federal Government's Social Security database • WebDNA interaction with zip
text manipulation
• Annoying character on writefile • Do you hate updating the copyright notice at the bottom of all your pages? • Extracting the first sentence out of a block of text • Formatting a long list in a table • How to keep the text variable after a function has finished • Removing whitespace • Spaghetti code
miscellaneous
• How to setup CODA to work with WebDNA? • Calculating Standard Deviation • How to create a RSS feed • Using a simple Array of Variables with [interpret] • Write Once Use Many
files & folders
• File upload example
dates & times
• How old am I? • How many working days? • Redefining [date] & [time] to match your time zone
showing & hiding
• Hideif on IP range
passwords
• Handling credit card numbers • random password-generator code
xml
searching
native SQL
databases

• Cloning a Record
• Export data to Excel
• Find duplicate records
• Database backup
shopping
browser info

• AJAX and WEBDNA
• reCAPTCHA code
• Setting a 30-minute Cookie
technical

• ImageMagick
• PayPal gateway
• Paypal IPN
• Check the Federal Government's Social Security database
• WebDNA interaction with zip
text manipulation

• Annoying character on writefile
• Do you hate updating the copyright notice at the bottom of all your pages?
• Extracting the first sentence out of a block of text
• Formatting a long list in a table
• How to keep the text variable after a function has finished
• Removing whitespace
• Spaghetti code
miscellaneous

• How to setup CODA to work with WebDNA?
• Calculating Standard Deviation
• How to create a RSS feed
• Using a simple Array of Variables with [interpret]
• Write Once Use Many
files & folders

• File upload example
dates & times

• How old am I?
• How many working days?
• Redefining [date] & [time] to match your time zone
showing & hiding

• Hideif on IP range
passwords

• Handling credit card numbers
• random password-generator code
xml

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