Building a PHP Development server from scratch
This post is very out of date.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 …
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Creating a Subversion repository
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 …
Getting a PHP CLI on Windows
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 …
PHP backwards compatibility
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 …
PHP XML-RPC timeout
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 …
PHP::mysqli_*
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 …
~/.vimrc
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 …
File uploads made easy.
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 …