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Installing VirtualBox, CentOS 5.4, Apache, PHP and MySQL

September 11th, 2012
I've recently done a project that uses load balancing. mod_proxy is a blog for another day but it was based on a LAMP stack. I install this all the time for lots of different projects. Some are development projects and some are just system administratio… more »

Searching for backslashes in MySQL with PHP

March 5th, 2012
Came across an interesting problem over the weekend. I had a MySQL database table that contains a column of MS-DOS directory paths. I was writing a PHP program to search this column and it took a few minutes to work out how many delimiting backslashes I… more »

b2evolution plugin for Google Analytics

March 2nd, 2012
All the plugins referenced on the b2evolution site related to Google Analytics were old or dead. So I have written this one to replace them all. This page is to provide comments and suggestion. Source and instructions may be obtained from the down… more »

Small comparison of PHP Frameworks

October 11th, 2011
I'm working on a PHP web site and I want to add a user authentication component. In the past I've written hundreds of these things and couldn't be bother to write the same code all over again. You know the story: create user table in the database, add a… more »

B2Evolution Bad Request Illegal value received for parameter

March 20th, 2011
I suddenly started getting a very strange error message in my B2Evolution installation after restarting the web server. The error message read:Bad Request!The parameters of your request are invalid.If you have obtained this error by clicking on… more »