From the monthly archives: November 2007

PHP: An Array of Months

By On November 16, 2007 · Leave a Comment

I’ll be honest, this isn’t very useful. The goal was to have an array of months in the least amount of code.

for($i = 1; $i

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Reading Raw Post Data in PHP

By On November 14, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Perhaps you’d like to just sent XML over post, and not have xml=your_nodes_and_stuff_here. No sweat.

$xml = urldecode(file_get_contents(‘php://input’));

Enjoy.

This can now be called with:

curl -d “some_xml_here” http://yoursite.com/pagename

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Altering tables in MySQL Cluster 5.0.45

By On November 13, 2007 · Leave a Comment

I’m setting up my first mysql cluster, and just wanted some clarification on a few things.

In the manual, it says:

Online schema changes. It is not possible to make online schema changes such as those accomplished using ALTER TABLE or CREATE INDEX, as the NDB Cluster engine does not support autodiscovery of such [...]

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Apache: Urlencoded slash breaks multiviews?

By On November 13, 2007 · Leave a Comment

If you have a URL like the following, and you’re using multiviews:

/login/15/return_page%2F50

it won’t work. FYI, the last part is a return page. In this instance, lets just pretend it’s a return page that’s supposed to get hit after a successful login.

Using Apache 2.2.3.

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Motorola RAZR and 406 Not acceptable

By On November 9, 2007 · Leave a Comment

In trying to get a site working on cell phones, I got a “406 Not acceptable” only on the Motorola RAZR. The site loaded fine on my Treo 755 and every Blackberry I’ve tried.

It seems that the RAZR doesn’t handle Multiviews very well, or at all for that matter. If you’re using Multiviews and [...]

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Compiling Imagemagick on MacOS X – Not finding libjpeg

By On November 1, 2007 · Leave a Comment

I ran into an issue trying to get Imagemagick (convert) working on OSX last night. I had compiled libjpeg and installed it, but when I would compile convert, it would not have jpeg support.

I found this post on dzone, which I followed and was able to use libjpeg just fine.

tar zxvf jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz

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