Technology Evangelist and Gadgeteer
If installing PHP 5.6 on IIS 8.5 (I used the Web Platform Installer on Server 2012 R2) you will see an error (if you run php-cgi.exe directly) along the lines of: Cannot find MSVCR110.dll To resolve this, download x64_msvcr110 and place it … Read More »
I wanted to use the Virgin Media SMTP server for a website running phpMailer. First of all the emails failed so I turned on errors with the following command:
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$mail->SMTPDebug = 1; |
It returned:
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SMTP -> NOTICE: EOF caught while checking if connected SMTP -> ERROR: AUTH not accepted from server: |
It turned out to be quite simple (ssl:// for the … Read More »
This is a post dedicated to the WordPress Link Leaderboard plugin that I wrote, Version 0.1 (Alpha) This is the first WordPress plugin that I’ve written so expect many bugs and errors and plenty of room for improvement. The basic idea was … Read More »
Had a file on an FTP server that I was logged into, the filename was similar to “c:\folder\filename.php” (i.e. the filename had c:\ in it) I think this was a result of Uploadify, which has now been removed (more to … Read More »
I’ve had The Owl running for a little while now and the software that comes with it is a little bit rubbish to be honest. I kinda works OK I guess but is very limited, so it was time to have a little … Read More »
I’ve been doing some work on our facebook page recently and thought I’d share my experiences. After a bit of reading and checking out other pages on there it seemed like a good idea to change the main images we … Read More »
We have a Moodle running which I’ve recently moved to a new server. The old server was running PHP 5.2.x and the new one is on 5.3.x. This of course now means that the PHP extension php_mssql.dll is no longer … Read More »
For reference, MediaWiki code snippets for LocalSettings.php: # Must be logged in to edit $wgDefaultUserOptions [‘editsection’] = false; # Disable reading by anonymous users $wgGroupPermissions[‘*’][‘read’] = false; # Disable registration $wgGroupPermissions[‘*’][‘createaccount’] = false; # Image Uploads $wgEnableUploads = true; $wgFileExtensions … Read More »
For one of our public sites we have different sites for different countries and to make things easier for the end users I put together a landing page where they can then choose a flag (based on the country they … Read More »