Archive for the ‘Open Source’ Category

Download a web page to a local directory that mirrors its url path - wget file command on Linux

Monday, October 17th, 2011

I was doing some work on my web site and I was about to make some big …

Gotcha - Fatal error: Call to undefined method stdClass::myMethod() in /myscript.php on line

Monday, August 8th, 2011

I had a bit of confusion trying to debug a relatively complex set of classes that …

11 minutes into the Joy of Stats and I’ve already laughed out loud 5.3 times

Friday, December 10th, 2010

I am just watching a superb documentary about statistics, called the Joy of Stats, it …

How to remove source path/web address from top of document - PDFcreator (HTML to PDF converter)

Thursday, November 18th, 2010

I have just visited download.com to grab a copy of PDFcreator which I installed …

Zend Config XML and INI files - How to Specify False and Other Non-String PHP Data Types

Friday, August 27th, 2010

Zend Config INI and Zend Config XML are handy adaptors that allow you …

How to Convert a Legacy Site over to Zend Framework - 1 Favour Refactoring over Rewriting

Tuesday, May 18th, 2010

Over the years, I have often been faced with the choice of whether to refactor or rewrite.

In …

Installing PHP-Gtk and PHP 5.2 and Pear on Windows in April 2010

Thursday, April 15th, 2010

After battling for some hours I have managed to install php-gtk with PHP  on my Windows XP …

Setting the referrer in SimpleTest web tests - faking the HTTP_REFERER

Thursday, April 8th, 2010

Sometimes you might want to make a PHP web page do different things depending on the value …

How To View Page Source without Reposting in Firefox

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

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How to fix WHM /Cpanel Apache Log Bug - Crashes Intermittently- for Linux newbies

Tuesday, September 8th, 2009

I’m more of a PHP editor than a ’system admin’. I use a PC and am NOT …