Techie Corner

I would like to share a FREE anti virus software with u all. It’s Avast Anti Virus! Avast Anti Virus is free for home use.

So far I think Avast anti virus covers most of the area, ex: frequent virus definition update (almost daily), anti virus program automatic update, dos mode full system scan, email scanning, web shield, p2p shield and etc. In term of resources, Avast anti virus take more a bit more resources compare to AVG anti virus.

Here is the 7 types of protection avast! 4 Home Edition FREE anti virus software provides:-
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I’m facing problem in how to convert string from ISO to UTF8 previously. Due to the server configuration problem, all the UTF-8 char has been convereted into ISO (HTMLEntities) before it insert into db and those ISO character (HTMLEntities) break while showing in XML document. Now i found the solution to convert ISO character into UTF-8.

The original utf-8 chinese words: “你好”.
Converted to ISO (HTMLEntities) : “你好”

For you to convert the ISO string “你好” to become utf-8 chinese words: “你好”, you need to use Multibyte String function (or mbstring extension). Example below uses mb_convert_encoding function to convert ISO (HTMLEntities) characters to UTF-8:-
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I’m using FCKEditor for one of my project and it works brilliant for IE6, Firefox 1.5x. When we did the testing on IE7, the file manager shows some error. Before this we did some fine tune to allow only authenticated user to use FCKEditor and it’s file manager to upload pictures. Now it shows user not authenticated and it can’t even get all the session data.

We spend a lot of time go thru our code to check if our session setting having any problem, but no luck. After googling for some times, finally found out that, there is a variable we need to set in FCKEditor to solve the file manager session problem.

To solve the file manager session problem follow the steps below:-
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