After a few years being hosted with Hostmonster, we will be switching hosts. It has been great but we’re trying to cut cost plus many of the features we’re paying for, we’re not really using. We will be going back to Godaddy. Hopefully, it will be a better experience than it was last time we…
Before using PHP5.3, I never had to worry about MSSQL support. PHP included a dll file to use with MSSQL Server 2000 and up. This is no longer true if you decide to upgrade to PHP5.3.x. For months I looked for ways to connect to our MSSQL Server using PHP5.3.x. I finally found the driver…
I was having a few problems creating a page with ampersands in the URL. This is a quick fix if it’s part of the HTML by using & but if it’s part of a javascript, it will take the code literally. For example, let’s say you have a javascript function that sends you to a…
If you think you checked every setting in MSSQL Server that allows remote connections, you may have missed the Windows firewall setting. I have installed MSSQL 2005 many times on Windows 2000 Server, 2003, and 2008 and never ran into the remote connection problem. What’s happening is I’m unable to connection using the Management Studio…
I am running Debian5 Lenny which is running Virtualmin and Webmin. The default configurations install MySQL server 5.0.51. MySQL’s website has version 5.1.x. I wanted to update the version on my Debian box. Unfortunately, Debian considers MySQL 5.0.51 as the stable version, while version 5.1.49 is considered unstable. You can install it by updating your…
This will show you how to create a CakePHP environment in MAMP on OS X. Here list of softwares used and their version. OS X Leopard or Snow Leopard MAMP version 1.91 (using PHP5.2.x) CakePHP 1.2.8 You shouldn’t have to use MAMP 1.9.1. I have it working on version 1.8.x. You will need to change…
I’ve been developing web sites for almost 10 years now. I’m still in search of a way to develop faster. I find myself doing things over and over again. I use PHP as the programming language to develop the web apps with MySQL database. I started to look for different frameworks – but most use…
Here’s a couple of quick tips to connecting to a MSSQL 2005 server using PHP on a Windows webserver. You will need to enable the php_mssql.dll in your php.ini file. Here’s the code to connect to the server. <?php $conn = mssql_connect(‘my_server’, ‘db_username’, ‘db_password’); if (!$conn) { die(‘ERROR: Unable to connect to the database.’); }…
My cousin Ronald and I had a bet on the 2010 NBA Finals. The loser buys the winner a swingman jersey, wear it while making a video and read off a speech prepared by the winner. I lost but he didn’t want to write a speech is I had to make up what I had…
I’m using the jQuery plugin from http://bassistance.de/jquery-plugins/jquery-plugin-validation. The plugin is greate. I did run into a problem with arrays. Say your form has a group of checkboxes or radio buttons and their names are checkbox or radio. To have them be in the same group, their names have to be the same and to process…