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If you use nautilus to manage your files (if you are using Ubuntu, you do) and you would like a quick way to open files with sudo rights, check out the nautilus-gksu package. This extends nautilus allowing you “open as administrator” from a right click menu. This is a great time saver and a much [...]

If you are having DNS issues and you are on Be Broadband then you might be using out of date DNS servers (as they tell you to do in the instructions). Check out this page for up to date DNS server information: http://beusergroup.co.uk/technotes/index.php/DNS_Issues To update your DNS, you have to go through the setup wizard [...]

If you have a script that is receiving posted XML for whatever reason and are trying to access this XML without any filtering, escaping etc then this is the solution you are looking for. Instead of trying to access via $_POST etc, you can simply call the following: PLAIN TEXT PHP: $xml = file_get_contents('php://input'); This [...]

If you have dutifully installed the required PEAR libraries for your application (eg PHPList HTTP/Request) but its still saying that you haven't, see if you have an open_basedir restriction in place. If you do, there is a good chance that this is your problem. More Reading:Yii Setting up Authorisation – the Missing ManualPHP Force Download [...]

If you are bewildered by the choice of lightbox style javascript plugins available, you might find this page useful: http://planetozh.com/projects/lightbox-clones/ Its a well organised matrix of lightbox clones so you can compare features and choose the right one for your specific requirements. Handy! More Reading:Adding Confirm E-mail Address Field to Magento Frontend FormsGot the Insecure [...]

I've just finished my first delivery of a Zend PHP course module. It was the databases section of the higher structures course. Everyone seemed to enjoy it and I think it went really well. Its great to be able to help newcomers to PHP to get a better understanding of the language and see the [...]

Netbeans is great for speeding up development, but learning some keyboard shortcuts can speed things up even more. Here is a nice blog post I found with a few new shortcuts (eg [ctrl]+[k] == cool ) More Reading:

If you use Virtual Box for virtual machines (eg testing web sites in IE, what fun) then this is of interest to you. There is another feature which I have only just discovered called Guest Additions. This is something that you can install into your VM which gives much tighter integration with the host OS. [...]

If you see this error message when trying to access the backups section of Magento Admin: Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/*****/public_html/lib/Varien/Data/Collection/Filesystem.php on line 234 Then this simple fix is for you: replace (line 24): PLAIN TEXT PHP: foreach (glob($folder . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . ‘*’) as $node) { with this: PLAIN TEXT PHP: foreach [...]