Microsoft recently announced the Beta release of its HealthVault platform. The platform is aimed at helping people better manage their health information. The information available from Microsoft is pretty cryptic, but basically it looks like the service is a massive database for storing and sharing health information. Some are perturbed by the possible privacy issues,…
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XHTML Valid Nested-List
So, I began testing all of my sites for XHTML compliance. I noticed that some of my nested lists were not validating. They all displayed properly, but (*gasp*) they weren't valid XHTML. Here's what I found the problem was, and the resulting solution: (more…)
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Control Drupal Forum Access by Role
We are developing an online community with forums which need to be private (only accessed by the members of the community). Unfortunately, the forum.module for drupal allows anyone with 'access content' privileges to access the forums. Obviously, we want visitors to be able to view the pages and almost all other content, but we want…
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Get the ID generated from the previous INSERT opereration
With the PHP function mysql_insert_id( ), you can obtain the previous index generated from an insert operation. The need for this capability came about when we were generating a MySQL database for invoice storage. Our database contains an INVOICE table for customer billing information, and an INV_ITEM table for individual items that are included in…
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Recent Comments by Soleer
- September 19, 2008 on Install Drupal Modules via CVS
- February 28, 2008 on Disabling Drupal Modules via your Database
- February 9, 2008 on Microsoft’s HealthVault Revolution