CREATE TABLE t2 SELECT * FROM t1;

Problem is that you’ll lost your auto_increment, primary key and any other indexes you have (and any other extra meta data like that.)

This might not be the best solution, but hey it worked for me:

CREATE TABLE t2 LIKE t1;

INSERT INTO t2 SELECT * FROM t1;

Hope that helps somebody.. I only noticed I’d lost all my primary keys after copying a load of tables using the old method.

First thing’s first, create a text object in your flash file and set the instance name to something you can easily remember, in this example I set it to message. Once you’ve done that, on the keyframe for the layer in which that peice of text is, right click it and click on actions, then add the following:

this.message.text = LoaderInfo(this.root.loaderInfo).parameters.mymessage;

Easy enough, now you can publish your html. Once published, remove all the javascript stuff and the <noscript> tags surrounding the embed code [note, there's probably a better way of doing all this and I'll update this post once I figure it out.]

<param name="movie" value="test.swf" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" />
<embed src="test.swf?mymessage=workingok" quality="high" bgcolor="#ffffff"
  width="600" height="450" name="test" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain"
  allowFullScreen="false" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" 
  pluginspage="http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer" />

That’s basically where you set the variables you want to pass to flash. You have to urlencode each parameter. If you don’t know what that means, google it.

http://www.ozerov.de/bigdump.php

The reason for this warning is because PHP4 can’t communicate with a MySQL5 server unless it’s using old passwords (set by using the OLD_PASSWORD() function below.)

There are two simple ways to fix this. The first would be to upgrade your version of php. Unless you *really* need php4 (or below?!) upgrade! I’m not sure php4 is supported any more and should be considered a security risk. If you can’t upgrade, just do this in your database:

update mysql.user set password=OLD_PASSWORD('thepassword') where user = 'theusername';
and:
flush privileges;

This should do the trick. Be warned, if you issue any GRANT statements after this you will have to update mysql.user again.

Set the variable @id to 0:
SET @id = 0;

Update the column id to be id + 1 – this will re-index your id column in one fell swoop. Very nice:
UPDATE tblname SET id = (@id := @id + 1);

Set the first value for an auto_increment column:
ALTER TABLE tblname AUTO_INCREMENT = 196;
(this won’t work if there are rows with a higher value already in the table)

All in all, a few nice bits and pieces for cleaning up your tables.

If you know what clearsilver is and you use php, you might find it interesting.

Installing PHP Clearsilver module for apache on Ubuntu and Debian

After a lot of hair pulling, I finally got it to work:

#navigation ul {
  margin:               0;
  padding:              0;
  background-color:     #eee;
  height:               2em;
  border-bottom:        1px solid #888;
}

#navigation li {
  float:                left;
  list-style-type:      none;
  border-right:         1px solid #888;
}

#navigation a {
  float:                left;
  margin:               0;
  background-repeat:    no-repeat;
  background-position:  5px 50%;
  text-decoration:      none;
  color:                #333;
}

#navigation .inner {
  padding:              0 .4em 0 26px;  /* Adjust based on the width of icon + 10px */
  display:              inline;
  line-height:          2em;
  vertical-align:       middle;
}

#navigation .contacts {
  background-image: url(/crm/resources/icons/contacts.png)
}

#navigation .activities {
  background-image: url(/crm/resources/icons/activities.png)
}

#navigation .reports {
  background-image: url(/crm/resources/icons/reports.png)
}

#navigation .utilities {
  background-image: url(/crm/resources/icons/utilities.png)
}

#navigation a:hover {
  background-color:         #fff;
}

And here’s the HTML:

<div id="navigation">
<ul>
  <li><a href="" class="contacts"><span class="inner">Contacts</span></a></li>
<li><a href="" class="activities"><span class="inner">Activities</span></a></li>
<li><a href="" class="reports"><span class="inner">Reports</span></a></li>
<li><a href="" class="utilities"><span class="inner">Utilities</span></a></li></ul>
</div>

*I got my icons from the fantastic FamFamFam web site. This guy gives away loads of great icons for free. You might want to convert them to transparent gifs though as obviously IE6- won’t handle the transparency in the PNGs.

I’m no css expert, so if you can see anything silly in the css/markup or know of some way of improving this, please drop me a comment!