Safely updating TYPO3 extensions

Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012

A difference between the originally installed version and the current was detected! If you have ever read that warning in the TYPO3 extension manager, you know exactly how annoying it can be to find that difference. You made some minor tweak or fix and forgot about it and now you don’t know what it was [...]

Introducing SDML

Wednesday, September 15th, 2010

On the server-backend of a project I am currently working on, I was also faced with the task of installation and setup procedures for said backend software. It’s a PHP application with a MySQL database behind it. I was looking for a simple solution to have a PHP script that would set up the database [...]

Passing SOAP faults from NuSoap to C#

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010

I am currently implementing a SOAP interface for a PHP application I am working on. The built-in SOAP support in PHP didn’t really provide everything I needed (namely WSDL generation), so I went with NuSoap. After a lot of pain trying to get a WSDL out of it, that Visual Studio would consume, and correctly [...]

Building PHP 5.3.0 on Ubuntu 8.04 Server

Thursday, August 6th, 2009

When I wanted to build the latest PHP for a server I found several guides online. Sadly none of them worked right away. So after finally getting it all to work like I wanted to, I decided to quickly write up this guide. I start with a clean Ubuntu 8.04 install. So, first things first: [...]

Flash Player version in AWStats – Revised

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

My first implementation of this idea may have been sufficient for general use. For inclusion in WordPress however it was problematic at best. Now that I have revised (and tested) it, I thought I’d share this updated WordPress plugin. In this version I put the JavaScript code inline. Although I’m not a big fan of [...]

Including Flash Player version in AWStats

Wednesday, November 12th, 2008

I was interested in what Flash Player version people are using when visiting my site. So i looked around the web for a solution including AWStats. At first i was out of luck until i noticed that AWStats has a discussion forum on sourceforge as well. Someone there came up with a solution which was [...]