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Comment on CodeIgniter Framework Looks Promising by Sakeo

Sakeo — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 11:48:01 +0000

I completely agree with you on the documentation, it was one of the main things that won me over; having solid documentation behind you in any type of project is just great to have.

No ‘installation’ or command line stuff necessary, either. “It just works”, as they say.

Comment on Sub-Domains on Windows localhost by Felix

Felix — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 21:05:21 +0000

Bummer, it messed up my code :( here’s how the /etc/apache2/sites-available/foobar file should look like:
[VirtualHost *]


	ServerAdmin webmaster@work.localhost

	ServerName work.localhost

	ServerAlias *.work.localhost

	DocumentRoot /var/www/work/

	[Directory /var/www/work/]

		Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews

		AllowOverride All

		Order allow,deny

		allow from all

	[/Directory]
	ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/work.error.log

	CustomLog /var/log/apache2/work.access.log combined

[/VirtualHost]
Note: Replace all ‘ [ ' with ' '.
Note: The [Directory] tag is needed especially if the new DocumentRoot is outside of /var/www (or the default DocumentRoot, otherwise you will get 401 Access Denied (or something like that).

Comment on Sub-Domains on Windows localhost by Felix

Felix — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 20:57:30 +0000

How to do the same on Ubuntu (but should work on other Debian-based distros):
1. Run this command:
sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/foobar
Note: you can use any text editor for this. I chose nano because it’s the default editor that comes with Ubuntu.
2. Type this in the file:


	ServerAdmin webmaster@foobar.localhost

	ServerName foobar.localhost

	ServerAlias *.foobar.localhost

	DocumentRoot /var/www/foobar/
		Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews

		AllowOverride All

		Order allow,deny

		allow from all
	ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/foobar.error.log

	CustomLog /var/log/apache2/foobar.access.log combined

Note: The tag is needed especially if the new DocumentRoot is outside of /var/www (or the default DocumentRoot, otherwise you will get 401 Access Denied (or something like that).
3. Run:
sudo nano /etc/hosts
And add this line:
::1 foobar.localhost
Note: If this doesn’t work for you, try replacing that line with:
127.0.0.1 foobar.localhost
4. Run:
sudo a2ensite foobar
This creates a symlink to the “foobar” file in the /etc/apache2/sites-available in the /etc/apache2/sites-enabled folder, this way letting Apache know you want a new site.
5. Run:
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 reload
Note: Don’t worry if you get a warning like “apache2: Could not reliably determine the server’s fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1 for ServerName”, it’s ok :)
6. Go to http://foobar.localhost/ with your favorite browser and voila! :)
Note: If you never used nano, hit Ctrl+O and Enter to save a file and Ctrl+X to exit.
Have fun :)

(Yeah, I’m a Linux enthusiast :D)

Comment on UTF8 in PHP and MySQL by Felix

Felix — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:24:01 +0000

Here’s how :)
Mozilla Firefox 3.0.3 / Ubuntu 8.04
As you can see, the textbox can easily be widened :)

Comment on UTF8 in PHP and MySQL by Charles

Charles — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:26:46 +0000

Off topic: can you make this text box a bit wider? I’m getting a claustrophobic kind of feeling typing here

How’s this?

Comment on UTF8 in PHP and MySQL by Felix

Felix — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:40:30 +0000

Interesting :). Here’s my experience with encodings and stuff like that (I’m not an expert either):
I built this application which had a php script that ran in the command line and that was connecting to other servers and storing data in a database. This data would contain “funny characters”. The problem was not with inserting the data, which worked flawlessly (even though the tables and fields are set to the latin1_swedish_ci collation — I think that’s the default one phpmyadmin uses), but with reading the data. In phpmyadmin I would see the data just like it should appear, but in my own application it appeared incorrectly. I tried everything, utf8_decode(), iconv()m, etc. I was very frustrated and searched the web for hours, and came up with a simple solution:
mysql_query(”SET NAMES ‘utf8′”);
Pretty similar to yours, indeed :P. I should probably convert those tables to utf8_unicode_ci, shouldn’t I?
Off topic: can you make this text box a bit wider? I’m getting a claustrophobic kind of feeling typing here :P

Regards,
Felix.

PS: Yes! I’m registered! :)

Comment on Calculate Age: One-Liner Fun by nrg_alpha

nrg_alpha — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 02:47:12 +0000

Nice little script. Does indeed remind the rest of us that you can have multiple first and third comma-separated statements. I never made use of this, but can see where it streamlines things.

Comment on PHP4 Is Dead; Long Live PHP5… by Charles

Charles — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 21:36:51 +0000

I’ve added an image linked to GoPHP5.org to the page header (right beneath Noggin).

Comment on Using Akismet to Detect Spam Email by Charles

Charles — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 18:16:20 +0000

Quick update: due to a misunderstanding on my part, the API verification will be removed from the constructor and made a separate, stand-alone public function, as it does not need to be executed with each request.

Comment on Tabbed Ouput with Tidy by nrg_alpha

nrg_alpha — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:09:47 +0000

Ah.. that explains EVERYTHING :) I was wondering if I had to have that extension installed. Funny thing is, whenever I would call a function that belongs to an extension that is not installed, PHP would simply put up an error message stating that that particular function doesn’t exist (or something to that effect).

I also didn’t realize that you can omit the last ‘?>’ aspect of the PHP tags for the purposes you mention. Nice to know :)

I definitely see the use for such code snippets.. people hosting blogs / websites on coding tutorials for example would benefit from such a nice and easy formatting system.

Good topic :)