bug
The bug If you’re running PHP 5.1.6 and just started using PDO for your database connection, it’s likely you’ll run into quite an annoying bug. Lets test a simple query partly taken from PHP documentation. $calories = 150; $colour = 'red'; $sth = $myPDO->prepare(
bash
If you want to avoid situation when after server restart you have to start lots of services manually, a little thing like chkconfig would come in handy. First you might want to take a look at a list of services handled by chkconfig: chkconfig --list You should see something like
memcache
In last two posts I described how to install memcached daemon and memcache extension for PHP. Today I'll show you how to configure your PHP to use memcache to handle sessions. One thing I should mention is that when installing memcache you should answer yes when asked 1.
CentOS
After installing memcached daemon, we have to install memcache PHP extension. yum install php-pecl-memcache or apt-get install php5-memcache If above is not an option try below method. pecl install memcache After successful installation add memcache.so extension to your php.ini file. vim /etc/php.ini
bash
Install dependancy Before we install memcached we need a dependency library libevent. Check for latest stable version at https://monkey.org/~provos/libevent/ cd /usr/local/src wget http://monkey.org/~provos/libevent-1.4.13-stable.tar.gz tar -xzvf libevent-1.4.13-stable.tar.gz cd libevent-
fun
Sad but true
CentOS
Problem Sometimes after running yum update or yum install something you’re getting missing dependency error messages. Like this: --> Missing Dependency: /usr/lib64/python2.4 is needed by package gamin-python-0.1.7-8.el5.x86_64 (installed) --> Missing Dependency: /usr/lib64/python2.4 is needed by
PHP
Problem PHP has a bug with applying summertime in some timezones. If you’ve set correct timezone in your php.ini file and running still gives you wrong time its quite possible that you’ve just stumbled upon this bug. Solution To correct this you need to install new timezone
MySQL
If your PDO scripts are crashing Apache after installing xampp 1.7 for windows all you need to do is: * download this package http://windows.php.net/downloads/releases/php-5.2.11-nts-Win32-VC6-x86.zip" * unzip * copy libmysql.dll into xampp\apache\bin and xampp\php
bash
xmpppy is a Python library allowing you to send messages from your server to any Jabber enabled communicator. Firstly download and unpack xmpppy to a local directory. Next go into the unpacked directory and run: python setup.py install Next you need a script that will do the sending. Use
registry
Usually when you uninstall something, associated service is removed with the software, but sometimes it lingers on. In order to remove service manually you need to: * Click Start -> Run… -> type in "regedit" * Find the registry entry HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Services * Find the service you
Apache
Compressing CSS and JavaScript files will put a bit more load on the server but its worth doing as it will save you some bandwidth and your site will be delivered faster to your users/visitors. Load mod_deflate First you need to make sure you have mod_deflate module