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No GD Library For PHP By Default on CentOS 5

William Buchanan — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 20:24:22 +0000

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 [...]

Need to Upgrade PHP on Fedora Core 4?

William Buchanan — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 05:27:43 +0000

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 [...]

Problem with sessions on iPower

William Buchanan — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 19:15:43 +0000

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 [...]

Podpress – ‘Before More tag’ bug fix

William Buchanan — Sat, 17 May 2008 23:32:37 +0000

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.

After taking a look at [...]