I came across this problem and decided to post it on http://serverfault.com only to later discover how to do it on my own, so I figured I’d publish it on here to help those who seek the solution in the future. I have made the serverfault post a community wiki, so check that for any [...]

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As the title explains, this is a PHP Progress Bar, while it cannot be in pure PHP because it cannot update DOM elements on the fly, instead it directly communicates to the browser with a flush of javascript code. Alternatively you could store the progress is PHP cache or session and then have a page [...]

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I recently wanted this ability in a PHP script I was writing, very similar to how you can search the whole database for a string using PHPMyAdmin. My first place I go when I have a problem is google,  but a google result returned no matches at that time, so I decided to write a [...]

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There are 4 things that make a good password. Hard to bruteforce – It should be a certain length and/or contain certain characters. Hard to guess – It shouldn’t contain personal things, such as a birth date. Uniqueness – It should not be the same as all your other passwords. Unforgettable – You should be able [...]

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One of the most annoying things to me is when a website will attempt to “improve security” and think they are helping out the end-user by requiring a password to be a certain length, contain certain symbols, or pass a strength meter– but then get lazy on their coding and cannot/won’t allow for special characters [...]

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