Category Archives: PHP

March 24, 2008

Installing PHP5 with MySQL extensions

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 [...]

January 24, 2008

Don’t ever user www.templatesbrowser.com for wordpress themes– also posted in Misc

Today I noticed a JavaScript error on my site, on investigation I saw the following JavaScript code in the page source: 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” file in the original code base, then call [...]

November 14, 2006

WordPress RSS feed validation– also posted in Uncategorised

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 [...]

November 3, 2006

Blogging problems with my (PHP) host

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 [...]