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How to: Test MySQL database connectivity in ASP.NET, PHP, ASP

Test MySQL database connectivity in ASP.NET, PHP, ASP; Simple MySQL connection test from your website with ASP.NET, PHP & classic ASP. Whenever you need a MySQL connectivity test from a website or server, it's handy to have various test scripts nearby. Whether it is because you are setting up a new website or you have just installed a new server and are running your tests.
26/05/2014Posted inCode base
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How to clean up Contact Form 7 temporary captcha files on IIS web servers

Contact Form 7 is a WordPress plugin that provides a simple but flexible contact form. On IIS, Contact Form 7 captcha has one HUGE disadvantage: temporary captcha files placed in wp-content/uploads/wpcf7_captcha, are not automatically removed. The files are made read only. Here is how to remove Contact Form 7 temporary captcha files on IIS...
28/04/2014Posted inWordPress
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Set or remove the read-only attribute assigned to files with PHP chmod

Chmod.php, change file attributes with PHP, to make files read only or normally accessible on Windows IIS servers. Sometimes you need chmod to make files read only on your website, or make them normally accessible in case they already are read only. For instance Drupal's settings.php configuration file, or WordPress Contact Form 7 temporary captcha files, are examples of read-only files.
27/04/2014Posted inCode base
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Validate MIME types with PHP Fileinfo

How to check the file type in PHP and secure file uploads: it is important to validate MIME types in PHP. Especially of files uploaded through an upload form to your website. Using PHP, the best way to validate MIME types is with the PHP extension Fileinfo. Any other method might not be as good or secure as you might think.
27/04/2014Posted inCode base
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Optimize all MySQL tables with PHP/MySQLi multi_query

PHP script to make your MySQL database smaller, leaner and faster! The PHP MySQLi extension supports multiple queries, which are concatenated by a semicolon, with mysqli->multi_query. We use this to optimize all MySQL tables, in a single multi-query statement. Neat! Optimizing MySQL tables is important to keep tables small and fast. This boosts MySQL, PHP and website performance and we all love that, don't we?
23/04/2014Posted inCode base
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WordPress plugin “In Over Your Archives” Call-time pass-by-reference fix for PHP 5.4

How to fix PHP Call-time pass-by-reference has been removed in errors. The following PHP fix goes for nearly all PHP Call-time pass-by-reference errors: The WordPress plugin In Over Your Archives is a plugin to display your archive page in a nice way, just like on inoveryourhead.net. The plugin hasn't been updated in quite some time and breaks with PHP version 5.4.
23/04/2014Posted inWordPress
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How to load google-code-prettify syntax highlighting without plugins

If you run a WordPress blog where you display (parts of) source code, syntax highlighting is a must! It prettifies the code which makes it easier to read and it distinguishes code from text. However, most syntax highlighting is made available through plugins, and we all know too many plugins bring a lot of overhead to your blog. So, conditional load in WordPress: Load javascript only on posts in WordPress.
23/04/2014Posted inWordPress