MySQL Error: Can’t get hostname for your address
This error is thrown by MySQL because it tries to do a DNS lookup on the address connecting to the server and it fails due to the IP not being able to …
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Adobe drops flash for mobiles!
..and it’s official – so says Adobe’s blog (read it here). Adobe will be dropping support for Flash on future devices due to performance …
Read Article →jQuery Colorbox not showing but background shows
I was using Colorbox for some lightbox type effects to show larger images when clicking on thumbnails, but for some reason the background was showing …
Read Article →Get Value of Checkbox using jQuery
This one is quite an easy one, but a good one to mention non-the-less as it does definitely come in really handy.
If you would like to get a …
Read Article →Everybody’s a web host
To cut straight to the point, “we’re living in the age where everybody’s a web host”. Whether it be small and quite pathetic …
Read Article →CSS Background Default
If you need to override an already attached class containing a background — for example, removing a background image or colour that’s being …
Read Article →Restrict PHPMyAdmin to IP Address
Would you like to restrict PHPMyAdmin from being accessible to the whole world?
Firstly you need to SSH into your box if you are not on the local …
Read Article →2014 – Commands out of sync; you can’t run this command now
#2014 – Commands out of sync; you can’t run this command now
Now that can be a really annoying error!
It happens when querying stored procedures …
Read Article →Image corrupt or truncated: “unknown”
What is “Image corrupt or truncated:
This can often be seen while using Firebug in Firefox, but it actually has …
Read Article →WordPress wp-admin use different language for user
I needed to do some work on a WordPress site a little while ago and all the admins were French – and I cannot speak French other than the popular …
Read Article →Replace all spaces in HTML with except in HTML tags using PHP
If you would like to replace all the spaces in an HTML string with so that you can render it out to the browser but you also want to retain current …
Read Article →Using PHP to validate an IP address
You can use the PHP code below to check if an IP address is valid or not.
I needed this when building a form that accepted IP addresses as input for a …
Read Article →What is the difference between is_home() and is_front_page()
Call me ignorant, or call me an ignorant geek, but I used to think is_home() and is_front_page() was the same thing, until I experimented with them …
Read Article →..near 'option o ON (po.option_id = o.option_id) LEFT JOIN option_description od ON (o.o' at line 1
So you’ve just installed Opencart 1.5.0 and when attempting to edit a product or category or etc you get the following error:
Error: You have an …
Read Article →What is 1e100.net?
So you are probably reading this because you are not sure what 1e100.net is or why you are being redirected via it when performing Google searches or …
Read Article →Hide all error messages PHP
PHP Error messages showing up in your web applications are a dangerous thing. Not only does it look unprofessional, but it is also a serious security …
Read Article →What is xmlrpc.php?
It is a script which allows clients to make procedural calls over the net.
As it says in the name, the encoding is XML and because it is used on …
Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications in a VM
Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications
I am running a Windows XP SP3 VM used for testing multiple versions of InternetExplorer through Virtualbox. …
Read Article →Force HTTP using htaccess
If you’re running a site on Apache and need to force all traffic over to HTTPS, you can do it with a simple .htaccess rewrite rule. This is one …
Stop That Referrer in PHP!
Today I will show you a method to stop the traffic that a referrer site is sending your way, you may wonder why you would want to ignore traffic, …
Read Article →Viva la 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0!
You may see this around and not have a clue what the heck it is, weirdly enough, I did..
Why “weirdly” you ask, well, because, who would …
Ternary Operation
If you do not know what the Ternary operator is, or do not use it while you are coding, let me be the first to tell you how much you are missing out! …
Read Article →Oops the system encountered a problem (#104)
If you get the following error while using Google’s Gmail Service (gmail.com):
Oops? the system encountered a problem (#104)
..then you should …
Read Article →How to Write Unmaintainable Code
I have come across the following article before and again came across it today, after a revised browse through, I thought I may as well add another …
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