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Drop Shadow with CSS

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.shadow {
	-moz-box-shadow: 3px 3px 4px #000;
	-webkit-box-shadow: 3px 3px 4px #000;
	box-shadow: 3px 3px 4px #000;
	/* For IE 8 */
	-ms-filter: "progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Shadow(Strength=4, Direction=135, Color='#000000')";
	/* For IE 5.5 - 7 */
	filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Shadow(Strength=4, Direction=135, Color='#000000');
}

Solution found here: http://robertnyman.com/2010/03/16/drop-shadow-with-css-for-all-web-browsers/

Use the Same Arg in Sprintf

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When using sprintf you can use the same argument  like so:

sprintf(“You want the %1$s? You can’t handle the %1$s!”, “truth”);

The %1$s means it will pull from the first argument.

MySQL UTF-8

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Problem:

I have a database that needs to accommodate all languages.  Currently it is set to the default latin1_swedish_c1.  I’m thinking I need to change it to UTF8, but there are so many UTF8 encodings!

 

Solution:

“_cs” is for case sensitive collations.  So for case insensitive applications you can use utf8_general_ci.  utf8_bin is binary so it’s case sensitive.