Posts filed under 'PHP Development'
PHP 5.2 - Nesting level too deep - recursive dependency?
I installed PHP 5.2 on my testing server today and a couple of bits of code that previously worked fine in version 5.1.6 threw fatal errors in the new version. The error message was “Nesting level too deep - recursive dependency?” and it took a little time to track down the root of the problem. Here’s what happened…
Posted on 13 November 2006 | 15 comments | continue reading
Dates in PHP and MySQL
I see a lot of people on forums and on my training courses asking about the best way (or any way) to manage dates stored in a MySQL database and used in PHP. Three options follow, but first the problem…
Posted on 3 November 2006 | 10 comments | continue reading
Search PHP & MySQL documentation from Firefox 2 search box
Firefox 2.0 is now available and it transpires that the search provider functionality uses the same OpenSearch specification as IE7. That means the custom search providers I created for IE7 also work with Firefox2, so here they are again…
Posted on 26 October 2006 | | continue reading
Search PHP & MySQL documentation from IE7 search box
So Internet Explorer 7 is now available and I’ve been playing around with the functionality of the new search box. These links add specialist search providers to the search box in Internet Explorer 7. They provide searching of the on-line documentation for PHP and MySQL. Just click the appropriate links to add the search functionality you want…
Posted on 20 October 2006 | | continue reading
cPanel WebHost Manager confusion
Whilst doing recent work on a client’s webservers I hit some major confusion. They seemed to have Apache 2.0.22 installed but the server claimed to be Apache 1.3.37! Various other odd things were going on but this was the strangest…
Posted on 25 August 2006 | | continue reading
Where to find apache-devel-1.3.37.rpm
I should have been easy. You would have thought rpm packages of apxs and the development headers for the latest version of Apache 1.3 would be found all over the web, but no. Seems all the Redhat, Fedora, CentOS etc. servers are using Apache2. Except, of course, for my client…
Posted on 24 August 2006 | | continue reading
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