Posted in Development, php on April 29, 2000
Every time I've written some code to upload a file, either to send it off as an email attachment or as an image for some dynamic content piece, I've always meant to write a few functions so I don't
Posted in Development on October 16, 2004
I was playing around with a virgin DSVR (vs300) account for a few hours during the week, just getting php and MySQL ready for use. Vi was really annoying, giving me the dreaded A B C D routine when
Posted in Development on October 23, 2004
http://uk2.php.net/mysqli The mysqli extension allows you to access the functionality provided by MySQL 4.1 and above. More information about the MySQL Database server can be found at
Posted in Development on April 21, 2005
If you're using PHP to do XML-RPC and are getting odd issues with a timeout of around 60 seconds then you may want to look at the PHP.ini setting: default_socket_timeout this is by default set to 60
Posted in Development on August 18, 2005
Today I was writing some code - which is actually suprisingly rare these days - and I was getting an error about a particular function not existing in PHP5, array_diff_key() Luckily some body already
Posted in Development on September 10, 2005
I want to do some scripting to parse the contents of the iTunes XML library and ultimitely transfer the contents to a remote server. For my desktop I use Windows XP because It Just Works most of the
Posted in Development on November 21, 2005
This item assumes that you already have svn installed and this is the first time you've created a repository for this server (else leave out certain bits) All items here worked for me on my local
Posted in Development on March 25, 2006
This post is very out of date. See here for a newer version written in 2013. Following these instructions will get you a Debian based PHP/MySQL development server set-up with the ability to have
Posted in Development, php on March 27, 2006
A great one page cheat sheet for PCRE's can be found over on the PHP Guru website. http://www.phpguru.org/article.php?ne_id=67
Posted in Development, php on March 30, 2006
I've been writing code in my spare time again and have been wanting to blog little snippets but Wordpress munges any code that I add into the post body. I googled for wordpress plugins and most didn't