December 2016

RedirectMatch in htaccess with & characters

14 December 2016 baxters Comments 0 Comment

We had a problem with the contents of our htaccess file which required RedirectMatch URIs to contain & symbols. This was creating all sorts of problems with the resulting URL appearing in the browser. e.g. RedirectMatch ^/eveningclasses$ http://192.168.41.66/dumgalportal/index.php?pageid=evening.cts&site=cts The &site=cts part is lost and the word eveningclasses is appearing in place of the & before the word site. There are many solutions on the web involving Apache configuration, ReWrite rules etc. But there is a much simpler solution available: Double…

Android icon creation and layout

14 December 2016 baxters Comments 0 Comment

I have done some research into creating icons for various screen densities. I used Inkscape to create the svg files used in this layout which is a GridView. I used the website Android Asset Studio to create the various screen density png files. I have removed several views from the application and left only the login screen and student information screen which is the only really useful information area.