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Wordpress might give this error on uploading an image from media library. It means that wordpress isn’t able to save your file.

It is really easy to fix. However, this may not work for all:

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This is not a difficult task but people often don’t know what directory permissions are. While we need not go into depth, just know 0755 is the recommended setting for all directories.

For changing a directories permission from cPanel, follow the following steps: Read the rest of this entry »

Now that facebook supports XMPP protocol for its chat, any messenger which supports XMPP would be able to use facebook chat without much effort.

Follow these steps to add your facebook chat to pidgin:

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Flushing the output buffer doesn’t works in PHP sometimes no matter what you do. I had this code which would never work on my server but would perfectly fine on localhost. This was the code.

<?php
include('common.php');
ini_set('output_buffering','on');
ini_set('zlib.output_compression', 0);
//ini_set('implicit_flush',1);
ob_implicit_flush();
for($i=0;$i<10;$i++) {
      echo $i;
      echo str_repeat(" ", 500);
      ob_flush();
      flush();
      sleep(1);
}
?>

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A friend of mine who has Asus 1005HA deleted his recovery partition to free up disk-space. He didn’t knew what the consequences could be. He felt the need of recovery just few days after it and he realised that he couldn’t use the recovery mode anymore. He gave me his netbook. It took me a while to figure out how to restore the partition.
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I’ve developed my own libraries for rapid development of PHP applications. Email library is one area which I didn’t feel like developing a library for. Just then, I remembered how simple and robust CodeIgniter’s Email class was. I decided to try it on my own script. It was not at all difficult to get it working. It just commented out few lines of codes and voila! I was able to send my first email.

Those who are in need of a email library could use this simple library separately. I’ll guide you through the whole process step by step.

First thing you need to do is copy the Email.php from system/libraries folder and place it inside your script. Then use your favorite IDE to edit these lines:
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So, you thought you would make a web application but didn’t know where to start?
This is the place to start. You need a web server installed on your computer before you start any kind of web programming be it PHP, ASP .Net, ColdFusion, JSP.

For developing in PHP, you would have to install an Apache HTTP server, php interpreter, MySQL server. Installing all of them would be a real headache and so would be configuring them to work with each other. To simply this we have WAMPs(Windows Apache, MySQL, PHP).

One such WAMP distribution is XAMPP which is cross platform and has many features inbuilt like filezilla ftp server, a mercury mailing server etc.

To install XAMPP first download the installer file for your OS from the following link:
http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html

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Seriously guys, I got this error and I was laughing hard. The error is just too funny, don’t you think? Yes, it is but not for developers like me. Problem to this error is almost undetectable and there are more than a dozen reasons as to why this occurs and this often baffles developers.

This error generally comes when :

MySQL connection times out.

The MySQL server shuts down.

The connection is interrupted.

The query you are performing is too large for server to handle.

The query you are performing takes more space than allowed (default: 16MB).

While these are some common reasons, there maybe some unknown reasons to come across this error. I faced one of those unknown reasons. Read the rest of this entry »

Sometimes you need to edit some part of your website and unfortunately it isn’t made by you. You will, obviously, need to search for the file in which that particular part of site exists. In CMSs/forums/blogs, it get really hard to search it manually.

I was having a similar problem. I needed to edit the footer of my site http://www.techmindz.com but I didn’t know which file, out of 100s, had that particular part. I just made a script for that. Read the rest of this entry »

Just bought www.insanelyme.com for my blog. As I consider myself insane (most of you will agree with that), I found this name suitable for my blog. I bought it in the same instant when I saw it was available.

I added the domain in cPanel as addon domain but unfortunately it didn’t support second level directory (example.com/tech/blog). So I copied all the files from the directory and pasted it in a directory on top level. I pointed the domain to it and it worked. I changed the Blog URL in admin panel and it worked.

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