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I’m going down to London tonight because tomorrow is the PHP UK Conference of 2009. Looking forward to it http://www.phpconference.co.uk/ More Reading:Symfony Training UKZend Framework UKSymfony Developer UK#PHPNW09 Round UpYii Setting up Authorisation – the Missing ManualPHP Force Download with Custom FilenameMagento 2 – Key Points for Developers!Magento 2 Source Code Available on GitHubHow to [...]

I recently had a really strange issue with Open Suse 11 - the contents of my home directory were totally invisible if using the file manager. I could see them in the terminal, however I was only able to run the ls -al command as root. If I did it at my normal user level, [...]

On a forum I frequent the discussion came up of guaranteed number one positions in Google. My argument here is that its easy enough to get to position number one for "something" - for example Fnargleblarglewobbady The question is whether the search keyword or phrase is one that there is any worth in being number [...]

Check this out - chromium (the open source backbone of Google Chrome) running on Linux, courtesy of the nice people at Code Weavers More... Arora, a refreshing new Qt/WebKit browser | Kev009.com Avant Browser 11.7 Build 22 winAddons.com Open Browser Window & CRP Plugins Minor Updates | Ajay - On the ... Google Chrome 2.0.167.0 [...]

A common mistake made with Magento installations is that the the standard theme (eg default) is customised to suit the look of the site but is still kept in a folder called default. If you do this then whenever you want to upgrade your Magento store, the theme folder will be overwritten causing you all [...]

If your Open Suse 11.1 network isn't working and you have the message NetworkManager isn't running. You need to start NetworkManager PLAIN TEXT CODE: $ su $ NetworkManager This gets your network up again, but it's a pain. I'm still looking for a proper fix and will update this post when I do. More Reading:Keep [...]

If you are feeling lazy, or would like to build in some future proofness into your system, you can use the MySQL Desc query to get table column information and then use this information to create dynamic SQL insertion strings. For example: PLAIN TEXT PHP: $cols_query = db_query("desc table"); while($cq = mysql_fetch_assoc($cols_query)){     $cols[]=$cq; [...]

My MySQL dump splitting script has come in handy countless times. Recently I also needed to remove keys from an SQL dump to enable me to import a dump that had keys associated with text columns. Here is the updated script *note - now updated again to strip out any drop table statements if splitting [...]

If you are extremely puzzled with MySQL error messages relating to the number 2147483647, this is actually because you are trying to use an integer number higher than 2147483647 and MySQL's maximum integer value is 2147483647. more info More Reading:

Check out this excellent introduction to debugging Zend Framework applications using FirePHP. More Reading: