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In: Web Development
26 Jul 2008The following error may appear in your Apache error log file or displayed on a PHP web page: Parse Error: syntax error, unexpected $end in ….. scripts.php on line … If you are running PHP 5 then that means you probably need to enable the PHP configuration file option “short_open_tag”. In your php.ini file enable [...]
In: Web Development
3 May 2008You can perform a SQL query against more than one database with PHP. Here is a sample generic SQL query against two databases: SELECT image.image_title, greetings.date FROM db1.image, db2.greetings WHERE greetings.image_id=image.imageid And here is some PHP sample code on how you would query two databases in a single SQL statement: $query=”INSERT INTO db1.table1 SELECT * [...]
In: General IT Info
17 Mar 2008Library files in CentOS 64 bit are stored in the directory /usr/lib64. But in normal 32 bit CentOS, library files are stored in /usr/lib so this causes a problem when trying to compile source code that looks for library files in /usr/lib. When using the default configure options for compiling PHP, the directory /usr/lib is [...]
Here is some quick and dirty PHP code to display all request variables available to a page. This is useful while debugging: foreach($_REQUEST as $var=>$val) { echo “$var=$val”; } Replace _REQUEST with _POST or _SESSION and you can see those variables too.
This blog is about technology related topics. It will primarily contain problems and solutions to IT problems that I encounter on a day-to-day basis. In addition interesting things I come across either on or off the internet will be posted here as well. I will also include step-by-step tutorials to common tasks people may need to do with their computers.