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[HOWTO] Fix Twitter clients (or PHP scripts) which use basic authentication.

Deepak Mittal — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:16:04 +0000

As you probably know, Twitter completely ditched basic authentication method on August 31st, 2010. It now supports only OAuth method of authentication which complicates the coding process multiple folds. Scripts which were previously 20 lines long now span several files. While there are numerous advantage of Oauth like client doesn’t need to know your password, [...]Related posts:

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[HowTo] Add expires headers to cache static files using htaccess

Deepak Mittal — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 05:52:23 +0000

Caching is one of the most important things to keep in mind when you are developing a website which is expected to get large amount of visitors. Most web developers neglect caching, some even don’t know correct ways to implement it. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to enable browser cache of static files [...]Related posts:

[HowTo] Enable or disable modules in Apache

Deepak Mittal — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 05:14:47 +0000

You can enable or disable any apache module using a2enmod and a2dismod. You don’t need to edit the conf file for that unless you are having some problem with this method. The syntax of these commands is really simple: To enable a module: sudo a2enmod module_name To disable a module: sudo a2dismod module_name For instance, [...]Related posts:

[HowTo] Check your php and server information using phpinfo()

Deepak Mittal — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 07:53:22 +0000

We can check the php configuration, apache’s loaded modules and all other kinds of PHP configuration using a simple function called phpinfo(). Create a file called infophp.php in your web’s root directory and put the following code in it: <? phpinfo(); ?> This would output all the php configuration info and apache information. You can [...]Related posts:

[HOWTO] Send emails(using mail function) from localhost in PHP through msmtp (using gmail account) on Linux

Deepak Mittal — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 07:08:27 +0000

There’ve been lots of times when I wanted to use the mail() function on my local server. I am sure lots of you would’ve been wanting it too but most of you would’ve settled for PHPMailer or just used a web host to test the code instead. I myself had been doing the same until [...]Related posts:

[HOWTO] Validate Email-address in PHP using Regular expressions (the correct way)

Deepak Mittal — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 06:40:09 +0000

Here’s a function which thoroughly checks email-address and returns true for a valid email address and returns false for invalid one. I thought it was worth sharing so I posted it on my blog. You will find the source link at the bottom. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 [...]Related posts:

[HOWTO] Use local phpmyadmin with remote MySQL

Deepak Mittal — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 16:33:43 +0000

My host recently started allowing remote connections to its mysql database. It was a really useful feature – I could not change database settings from my own computer. Since it started allowing remote connections from my IP, I could use any mysql client to connect to it. I fired up terminal and tried to connect [...]Related posts:

[SOLVED]‘Error establishing a database connection’ in wordpress

Deepak Mittal — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 01:44:45 +0000

One of my clients got this error in his wordpress: Error establishing a database connection It is one of those vague errors which give very little information about what caused it. On going to /wp-admin, it gave error: One or more database tables are unavailable. The database may need to be repaired. I added “define(‘WP_ALLOW_REPAIR’, [...]Related posts:

[SOLVED] ‘Can’t connect to local MySQL server through socket’ error

Deepak Mittal — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 01:30:49 +0000

Yesterday I got the error: ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can’t connect to local MySQL server through socket ‘/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock’ (2) when I ran the command mysql through terminal in Ubuntu 10.10 This error can also be linked to error in phpmyadmin: Connection for controluser as defined in your configuration failed. I figured out it was due to [...]Related posts:

Passing variable number of arguments to a function in PHP

Deepak Mittal — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 02:57:43 +0000

We all know about functions and how we can pass arguments to it. But did you know that we can pass variable number of arguments in a function? Consider a function sum() which adds numbers passed into its arguments. Now we want it to add all the numbers passed onto the arguments. Eg; if we [...]Related posts: