You might run into this error if you switch over from using PHP’s built-in MySQL functions, over to a database abstraction layer, which is what I did on a recent project. After much banging-the-head-on-the-desk, I finally figured out that PEAR DB doesn’t use the same auto-increment sequence that the actual MySQL engine does.

For example, you may have a database using a CMS that doesn’t use PEAR. You do your various inserts, and inevitably, your deletes. So, your auto-increment column might start out in a perfect sequence like 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5, etc. But then say the first two get deleted, so now your sequence id’s are 3 - 4 - 5. But then you insert again, and your CMS, using the DBMS directly, knows to use 6 for the next auto-increment value.

But then say you switch over to PEAR DB, and why wouldn’t you? It’s great - and readily bundled into most PHP installations. But then you notice, taking the above example, that your next insert starts at 1. Then the next insert produces an id of 2. And then you get to 3 and WHOA what happens, “DB Error: already exists” that’s wtf happens. PEAR DB ignores MySQL’s auto-increment sequence and makes its own (jump down to the notes/warnings in red).

You may also notice that you have table names with “_seq” at the end.

Why is this? I have no idea - but it’s stooooopid. Is there some reason for this? Seriously, please enlighten me! I mean, what’s an example of where you’d like to use more than 1 sequence?

So what to do? You need to alter those “_seq” tables, that’s what. So if you’re having trouble inserting into a table named “products” - get MySQL’s “Next Autoindex” value, which you can easily do in phpMyAdmin on a table’s “structure” tab (see the screenshot, where it’s 20).

Now, go into the products_seq table, and change the id to that number (20 in this case). Now you shouldn’t have any problems.

So the moral of the story is, if you start out using a PEAR database abstraction layer, you’ll never have this problem. But if you’re unlucky enough to not have done that in the first place and switch over to it, you may have this issue and this is a quick fix.

In this example, I attach a Fancybox to any link with the class “editImage.” When it’s closed, the parent will refresh:

$("a.editImage").fancybox({
  'width': 800,
  'height': 450,
  'onClosed': function() {
    parent.location.reload(true); ;
  }
});

If you’re not sure what this means or how to use Fancybox, you should hop over here.

I guess there’s some conflict between Firefox version 3.6.x and the TextExpander engine. So the quick fix seems to be to just restart Firefox when this happens.

Evidently, this isn’t fixed in TE3 - so no need to upgrade with hope of this getting fixed (at least not of this writing).

Cheers!

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on

# block bad bots

RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Baiduspider [NC]
RewriteRule ^.*$ http://google.com/ [R,L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Mozilla/5(.*)Twiceler
RewriteRule . http://www.cuill.com/your_bot_sucks [R=301]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Yeti [NC]
RewriteRule ^.*$ http://google.com/ [R,L]

# end bad bots

The above is a combination of various Googling (I wish I kept the links so I can thank the fine folks that helped me address this). You can send them away to any site you like - in the first and last I just kicked them to Google, and for the second I sent the robot back to it’s own site. My bandwidth now seems to back down to normal levels. Try them out, monitor your bandwidth and log files, and tweak as needed - good luck!

$banks = array(14=>"bank one", 22=>"bank two);

I then want to construct a simple select form element, this WILL NOT work:

$form['drop'] = array(
 #id' => "bank_drop",
 '#type' => 'select',
 '#title' => 'test',
 '#options' => $banks,
 '#default_value' => 22  // will NOT work!
);

But this works:

$form['drop'] = array(
  #id' => "bank_drop",
  '#type' => 'select',
  '#title' => 'test',
  '#options' => $banks,
  '#value' => 22  // works!
);

This was on Drupal 6.15

Hope that saves someone some headache :)

I was recently on a project where I had to both size and place it. Sizing it it easy. Say you have a link tag with an id of opener, like this:

<a id="opener" href="http://www.google.com">Google</a>

To create and size the fancybox that will open when it’s clicked, you’d just add the following javascript to your page:

<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8">
  $(document).ready(function(){
  $("#opener").fancybox({
    'width': 390,
    'height': 400
  });
});

Note that pixels is assumed, you should not say something like “390 pixels” like you would in css, it won’t work then.

So, above we have defined a fancybox that is 390 pixels wide, and 400 pixels high. Next we need to position it.

(Note this is based on Fancybox 1.3 - I can’t say if it’ll work with other versions.)

Fancybox puts everything in a layer with an id of “fancybox-wrap” - so we can easily manipulate it with basic css, like so:

#fancybox-wrap {
  margin: -70px 0 0 290px;
}

You can do the same with padding, maybe even positioning.

Hope that helps someone!

In this example, let’s say I have a role called “treasurer” - and anyone that’s logged in and not a treasurer is an administrator. In my module (called mymod here), I knew that hook_user would do the trick somehow. Note that in hook_user, the $op variable contains what operation is being performed, and “login” is an option we can use here. So, this will fire right after the login form is processed and the user is loaded. The $account variable contains the entire $user object being worked on (so we can use it instead of a “global $user” declaration). Here’s what I originally wanted to do but it does not work:

function mymod_user($op, &$edit, &$account, $category = NULL) {
  switch ($op) {
    case 'login':
      if (in_array('treasurer', $account->roles)) {
        drupal_goto('user/' . $account->uid);
      } else {
        drupal_goto('admin/users');
      }
      break;
    default:
      // nothing
      break;
  }
}

We can’t  use drupal_goto here, surprisingly. But after a little Googling, here is the way to do it - this works:

function mymod_user($op, &$edit, &$account, $category = NULL) {
  switch ($op) {
    case 'login':
      if (in_array('treasurer', $account->roles)) {
        $_REQUEST['destination'] = 'user/' . $account->uid;
      } else {
        $_REQUEST['destination'] = 'admin/user/user';
      }
      break;
    default:
      // nothing
      break;
  }
}

In short, we just need to set $_REQUEST['destination'] to whatever we want. In the above example, if the user is a treasurer, we sent them to their user account page. Otherwise, we know that it’s an administrator (since that’s the only other role I set up), and we show the admin all the users. Tailor to your needs. Note that if your destination has a url alias setup, this will automatically fetch the alias too. Cheers.

However, I had problems getting the script mentioned in the tutorial to work. After some more searching and tweaking, I can came up with this script, which works well enough for me and gives Launchbar credit for the tweet, which makes you look super cool/geeky as most folks will probably be like what the hell is this Launchbar???

To use this script, open up Script Editor and copy it in, Compile and save it into ~/Library/Application Support/LaunchBar/Actions - where Launchbar should pick it up. From there, just use as shown in the video. Note this assumes you have Growl installed - which you should ;)

using terms from application "LaunchBar"
    on handle_string(tweet)
        -- Init
        my growlRegister()
        set charcount_max to 140
        set charcount_tweet to (count characters of tweet)

        -- Check message length
        if charcount_tweet ? charcount_max then
            -- Get credentials for twitter.com
            tell application "Keychain Scripting"
                set twitter_key to first Internet key of current keychain whose server is "twitter.com"
                set twitter_login to quoted form of (account of twitter_key & ":" & password of twitter_key)
            end tell

            set twitter_status to quoted form of ("source=launchbarat&status=" & tweet)
            try
                -- Send tweet
                do shell script "curl --user " & twitter_login & " --data-binary " & twitter_status & " http://twitter.com/statuses/update.json"
                -- Display success message
                growlNotify("Tweet Sent:", tweet)
            on error
                -- Display error message
                growlNotify("Error Tweeting.", "Try again?")
            end try
        else
            -- Tweet is too long
            growlNotify("Tweet Too Long", "Tweet is " & charcount_tweet & " characters long. The maximum length is " & charcount_max & " characters.")
        end if
    end handle_string
end using terms from

using terms from application "GrowlHelperApp"
    -- Register Growl
    on growlRegister()
        tell application "GrowlHelperApp"
            register as application "Tweet" all notifications {"Alert"} default notifications {"Alert"} icon of application "Script Editor.app"
        end tell
    end growlRegister

    -- Notify using Growl
    on growlNotify(grrTitle, grrDescription)
        tell application "GrowlHelperApp"
            notify with name "Alert" title grrTitle description grrDescription application name "Tweet"
        end tell
    end growlNotify
end using terms from

My database table consists of nothing more than an id, a part number (number), a description, and a price. Here’s the query that located all duplicate part numbers - from there I was able to easily delete them:

SELECT number,
 COUNT(number) AS NumOccurrences
FROM part_prices_new
GROUP BY number
HAVING ( COUNT(number) > 1 )

So… I would try to explain how to use Google to restrict a search to a particular website or even part of a website. That wasn’t working so well. So I just made a website that does it for you - Search a Peep’s Tweets. It even remembers your most recent searches for you.

As a comparison, I used Twitter’s advanced search to search my Twitter account (stoptime) for “beer” -  I get no results. The same search on Google gives me 10 results. So hopefully this’ll be useful and easy, cheers!