Posted: December 30, 2009
I recently installed CentOS 5.3 version of Linux on a new testing server and started configuring all of the bells and whistles. I made some initial tweaks to Apache, MySQL, and PHP to set up my web server test environment. Everything seemed to be running smoothly until I happened to run an older PHP script I wrote to manipulate image files. The script resizes and renames image files in specified directories. Only one problem, the script was dying without a trace, no errors, nothing.
Posted: April 9, 2009
If you are still using the Fedora Core 4 (FC4) version of Linux you may have a need to upgrade your version of PHP. Unfortunately the Fedora Project hasn’t put out an update to PHP past version 5.0.4. There have been some functionality updates to PHP since then. The project I was working on at the time needed the functionality of SimpleXML (for handling XML responses; built into PHP 5.1.4 or higher).
The easiest way to upgrade PHP on Fedora, in my opinion, is using YUM. YUM makes it easy to download and install rpm packages on Linux systems. So let’s take a look at what we need to do.
Posted: August 18, 2008
I work with several sites that are hosted by iPower and was having some real trouble with a couple scripts that required the use of sessions. Everything worked great on my test server which runs a similar version of Linux and Apache. For some reason the session information just would not carry over from page to page like it should. After a going over the code again and again, everything looked good, I couldn’t see any problem. So I turned to the Internet to do a little research. That’s when I came across a great article by Tim Chadwick that helped shed some light on my problem.
Posted: May 17, 2008
I was having an issue using Podpress 8.8 and Wordpress 2.5 on one of my projects. Even though I set the ‘Before <!- More -> tag’ option to ‘No’, the flash player was still showing up in the short version or excerpt of the posts. Setting the option to ‘no’ is supposed to keep the flash player from showing in the short version of your posts but there was some kind of bug in the coding.