XAMPP – Sending test mails with MercuryMail

XAMPP comes with MercuryMail. To use it for sending test mails, you can do the followings:

1. Start Mercury Mail from XAMPP control panel.
2. Navigate to Mercury Mail folder in XAMPP installation (Most probably C:\Program Files\xampp\MercuryMail)
3. Double click on mercury.exe and Mercury window will be opened.
4. Go to Configuration -> Local Users
5. Add a user with password (Suppose sajjad)
6. Close this window.

That’s it.

Now you can send mail to sajjad@localhost or sajjad@localhost.com (Mecury Mail should be started).

To receive mail configure outlook express with localhost as pop3 and SMTP server.

Hope these information will be helpful.

XAMPP – My favorite PHP environment

When I started coding in PHP, the main hassle was preparing the development environment. Installing Apache, PHP, MySQL was not so easy. Then I came across PHPTried and after that WAMPP. But finally I got what I wanted – XAMPP. To me XAMPP is a total PHP development environment.

XAMPP is an easy to install Apache distribution containing MySQL, PHP and Perl. XAMPP is really very easy to install and to use – just download, extract and start.

To get a copy of XAMPP, visit http://www.apachefriends.org/.

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Removing table rows using JavaScript

In my last post I have shown how to duplicate a table row. Now if you let the user to duplicate a row then you will look for a solution to remove row dynamically using JavaScript. Use the following function to dynamically remove row from a table. This code is also tested on IE6 and FF2.

/**
 * Removes row of a table. Finds the table with table ID
 *
 * @param targetTableId - Table ID
 * @param targetRowIndex - index of the target row tobe removed
 * @param skipRows - Number of rows to be skipped
 */
 
function removeRow(targetTableId, targetRowIndex, skipRows)
{
     var targetTable = document.getElementById(targetTableId);
     var tableBody = targetTable.tBodies [0];
     var totalRows = tableBody.rows.length;
 
     if(totalRows == skipRows)
     {
          return false;
     }
 
     if(targetRowIndex == undefined || targetRowIndex == "")   
     {       
          targetRowIndex = totalRows - 1;   
     }    
    
     if(tableBody.hasChildNodes())   
     {
          tableBody.removeChild(tableBody.childNodes[targetRowIndex]);   
     }
}