PHP Archives - dave.harris.uno

PHP 5.6 with WPI on IIS 8.5 (Server 2012 R2)

28 Jan

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...
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phpMailer ERROR: AUTH not accepted from server:

15 Mar

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: [crayon-5953e708d1583007590896/] It returned: [crayon-5953e708d15a2223384248/] It turned out to be quite simple (ssl:// for the...
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Link Leaderboard – WordPress Plugin (Version 0.1 Alpha)

5 Jul

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...
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Cannot delete file on FTP server, Invalid Filename

20 Jun

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...
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The Owl USB Energy Meter and using the SQLite Database with PHP

14 Jun

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...
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Facebook Page and PHP SDK

10 Feb

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...
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External MS SQL Database User Authentication with Moodle

25 Nov

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...
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MediaWiki Code Snippets

12 Aug

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...
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