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Installing PHP5 with MySQL extensions

Monday, March 24th, 2008

I’m generally a ColdFusion programmer but occasionally I need to install PHP for one reason or another, the last couple of times has been to use Wordpress.
I remember the last time I did this (maybe 6 months ago) I had problems with connecting to MySQL because PHP 5 no longer bundles MySQL client libraries for [...]

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Today I noticed a JavaScript error on my site, on investigation I saw the following JavaScript code in the page source:

var CCounter=2151068; var CCsite=www.chapter31.com; CCinvisible=0;
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var CCounter=2151068; var CCsite=www.chapter31.com; CCinvisible=0;

My investigations found that where I downloaded the template from was a nice (NOT) little site called http://www.templatesbrowser.com/. Now what they do is add a “functions.php” [...]

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Wordpress RSS feed validation

Tuesday, November 14th, 2006

I’ve been using Wordpress for a while now and I’m really happy with it. Only recently have I tried to validate my RSS feed using feedvalidator.
Unfortunately even though the feed validated I received the following warning:
wfw:commentRSS should be wfw:commentRss

The explanation given on the site was:
Due to a clerical error, the element Chris Sells originally spec’ed [...]

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Blogging problems with my (PHP) host

Friday, November 3rd, 2006

Last week my blog software decided to stop working. I couldn’t create or edit any posts, bugger.
It wasn’t the fault of the blog software however, it seems the host added some new ‘forbidden’ words to their list and of course I wasn’t notified.
Basically every time I wanted to create or edit a post I was [...]

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