Adam Williams - PHP Web Developer Leeds, UK

Well today is good news day for Macheads everywhere. Google has just released a Mac version of their Chrome browser. Download it from http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/huzzah.html. From the Google announcement: Here are a few fun facts from us on the Google Chrome for Mac team: 73,804 lines of Mac-specific code written 29 developer builds 1,177 Mac-specific bugs [...]

If you’re checking out an SSL hosted SVN repository in Coda you may receive the following error: Server certificate verification failed: issuer is not trusted This error is because the SSL hasn’t been trusted by your system. To fix this complete the following: Open Terminal (Applications/Utilities/Terminal) Enter the following: svn list https://www.example.com/svn/ –username user replacing [...]

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As I mentioned in my previous post I’ve just installed Windows 7 on my Macbook and one of the issues I’ve come across is the lack of a right click button on the trackpad. Here’s a way to get right clicking without having to plug in an external mouse: Make sure you have run the [...]

Hi, I just bought a copy of Windows 7 Ultimate and decided to set it up on my Macbook (running OS X 10.5) using Bootcamp. The install was very straight forward and the graphics and networking worked out of the box. The only issue I had was getting the sound to work. After a bit [...]

You can set the error reporting level in PHP and also define whether it is displayed to the user or saved to a log file. The level can be defined either in the php.ini, .htaccess or directly inside a PHP script. The logging level options are: E_ALL – will log every error, including notice messages [...]

If you have a .htaccess file in your web directory and it does not appear to be being parsed, here’s a few things to check: Check the syntax of your .htaccess. Try commenting out using # line by line to see if you can get any part of it working. Check you’re using the Apache [...]

This solution allows users to import MySQL dump files into MySQL using SSH. This can be useful when the file is too large to upload via PHPMyAdmin. Upload the dump file to the remote server using WinSCP (Windows) or the linux equivalent tool. Once the file is successfully uploaded fire up an SSH session using [...]