Tools of trade
How to use CURL in XAMPP
I receive many e-mails from my readers regarding my PHP & MySQL Develpment enviroment and xDebug on XAMPP most of those readers have trouble with running CURL on their XAMPP, also i find that over web have lots of explanations and How To-s for this issues some are good some are to way complicated so i decide to explain in brief what is and what is simple to do.
Install xDebug in XAMPP
Like i promised in my previous post here is tutorial how to install xDebug on XAMPP. But first i hope that you have working version of XAMPP on your computer. So let’s start …
First you will need xDebug, you can download this from this site. Choose package what you need and which is compatible with your PHP version – THAT IS IMPORTANT. For example if you have PHP version 5.1.1 you will need xDebug for 5.1.1.
PHP & MySQL development enviroment
If you are PHP/MySQL developer like me ( as you maybe know I’m freelancer ) you will need some environment for developing your web applications for you and/or your clients. Also in other case if you blog enthusiast or simple you want to try some PHP script before you go on your live webserver this is mostly recommended solution for you. So let’s start from beginning. Here is ….
Cool Google Tricks
Trick #1 — Searching in a Range
So, you are searching for Sexy Singles between the age of 18 and 25 or looking for a cake which weighs between 100 and 200 pounds? Google has a way which lets you specify the range you want to find results in.
The trick is to use “..” — double dots — between the range. For example, Cake 100..200 pound or Sexy Singles 18..25 years.
I don’t really want to give the exact query I used to test this trick — I am sure some of you are reading it from work — but don’t forget to specify the unit. Google is smart but not “THAT” smart.
SQL Dump File Splitter
Few days ago i had a little problem. One of my customer have very large database ( over 200 Mb ) and I find out that i can’t restore contents of SQL dump because upload size limit and that phpMyAdmin will be run forever ( not forever but after a while will generate error and you are doomed 
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You can resolve that problem on few different ways:
