Archive for September, 2009

How PHP became such a huge success

Posted under Article, News, PHP on Wednesday, 30 September 2009 by rueben
Rasmus Lerdorf is undoubtedly the most famous Greenlandic geek alive. Having created PHP as a bunch of hackish scripts to support his website in 1995, he turned it into a powerful, fully fledged language that's now used by millions around the world. Linux Format magazine caught up with him...
How PHP became such a huge success

Amazon Web Services PHP Script

Posted under Article, Development, PHP on Monday, 21 September 2009 by rueben
This amazon script was originally developed by Uioreanu Calin in 2002, in this version we have adapted it for easier reading and editing, we always found the original version a great help but such a chore to find your way around with redundant files often getting in the way. The Amazon Web...
Amazon Web Services PHP Script

Getting PHP running with Apache

Posted under Article, PHP on Monday, 21 September 2009 by rueben
The #debian IRC channel on freenode very often sees people who don’t know how to get PHP running with Apache. This is nearly always caused by missing packages – particularly the Apache mod_php module. It is very simple to get a basic setup running – depending on the version of Apache and...
Getting PHP running with Apache

PHP and C# common encryption and decryption function class, Use of 3DES encryption and decryption

Posted under ASP.NET, Article, Development, PHP on Saturday, 12 September 2009 by rueben
PHP and C# common encryption and decryption function class, Use of 3DES encryption and decryption: PHP encryption and decryption functions: [code lang="php"] function encrypt($string) { //Key $key = "xxxxxxxx"; //Encryption $cipher_alg = MCRYPT_TRIPLEDES; $iv =...
PHP and C# common encryption and decryption function class, Use of 3DES encryption and decryption

How to: Remote Root Access to MySql

Posted under Article, Mysql on Sunday, 6 September 2009 by rueben
Very quickly, another thing that I typically like to do on my server boxes is allow root access to my Mysql database from remote computers. I don’t forward the port through my router and I use a very secure password (doesn’t everyone?). I don’t want to create a security risk, I just want to...
How to: Remote Root Access to MySql

Currency Converter

Posted under Article, PHP on Thursday, 3 September 2009 by rueben
Hi there peoples, This is a currency converter, built with a combination of javascript and php, which uses an XML feed from http://www.ecb.int/ to get up to date exchange rates. I know the xml handling is not very elegant, but it is functional Additions/comments/corrections welcome [code...
Currency Converter