My low key technique:

1. place a printf(“made it here: %s, %s+ %s\n”, __METHOD__, __LINE__, __FILE__); everywhere…
2. put “DIE(‘something’);” to figure out the exact line that fails.  If dies, good.  move it further down.  If it segfaults, move the die statement up.  Until you’ve found the exact line that fails.
3. Figure out why it’s segfaulting…  uh… good luck with that.  Google, and look at the changelog in PHP to see if it’s been fixed.

An easier option, if I were the one controlling the box — Update to the latest PHP.

project ideas:

1.) Current IP notifier – send to my webserver, what my home server IP is. (Dynamic). I could use a dynamic dns service… this maybe interesting to learn how to do this, if I have my own VPS… have the home-server, notify the web-server to update the DNS setting. So I would have something like: homelan.lloydleung.com or whatever.

2.) wake on lan commands.
3.) vpn to the network instead… with a combo on 1. This way, everything is encrypted…

Make sure your your <form> tag is within the same <td> cell element.  Otherwise it’s not XML compliant.

You can have the form outside the <table> — but not between it, and a <td> element.

debating on writing a new gallery, or make a plugin for wordpress to have a gallery.

How the plugin would work…
1.) Create a keyword, to enable the gallery.
2.) grab uploaded files, that are images via mime type, and display them.
3.) display the images via lightbox2, or something else that’d be suitable.
4.) Get titles, and descriptions for files

Pretty handy utility, not much else needed. All the hard parts are already handled by WP.

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Use your favourite means to install mysql, probably apache, php, phpmysqladmin as well…


sudo /etc/init.d/mysql start
mysqladmin -u root password myPassword

where myPassword is your actual password.

to test
mysql -u root -p

enjoy

One thing I have to admit, the documentation for certain PEAR applications lacks dearly. Just like all OSS packages. It’s just the nature of things.

The personal support I recieved from irc://efnet.org/pear was great. After a little guidance, the members in that chat channel were able to help me out. After my refactoring, I decided to write a basic howto.

A 3 teir design paradigm:

• DATA
• LOGIC
• GUI

This is a little howto on how to use the autoschema generator, I posted this to a wiki as well.
====Assumptions====
- you have pear, DB_DataObject_FormBuilder, and all dependancies instaled.
- You know how to setup the DSN. [have link point to DSN setup]
- You have a database setup.

====Getting started====
- config/db_dataobject.ini
[DB_DataObject]
database = mysql://user:password@localhost/dbName
schema_location = E:/HTTPRoot/Calendar/config/
class_location = E:/HTTPRoot/Calendar
extends = DB_DataObject
extends_location = DB/DataObject.php
require_prefix = DataObjects/
class_prefix = DataObjects_

where database = mysql://user:password@localhost/dbName
user = username

password = password

localhost = the host/ip of your database

dbName = the name of the database

- run ->
php.exe regenerate_dabaobject_info.php
or any other method of running

php.exe DB/DataObject/createTables.php db_databoject.ini
I would recommend have db_dataobject.ini placed somewhere outside of the reach of your webserver deamon.
- …
- Profit!

====Using Foreign Keys in downdown menus===
pseudo schema
tbl_Categories
categories_id;
title;

tbl_Books
books_id;
title;
categories_id;
make a .links.ini file, that accompanies your “dbName.ini” that got generated from above.

inside dbName.link.ini file add:

[tbl_Books]
categories_id : tbl_Categories:categories_id;


inside your generated tbl_Books.php file
add the line to your class

var $fb_linkDisplayFields = array('title', 'categories_id');


inside your generated tbl_Categories.php file
add the line to your class

var $fb_linkDisplayFields = array('title');


inside your db_dataobject.ini
add the line

linkDisplayLevel = 2

You have to set linkDisplayLevel greater than 1. Read the docs for further information

Summary:
1.) Setup the DSN
2.) Run the autoschema generator script
3.) Add some minor FK setup
4.) Done.

blowfish… the saviour.

Do the whole password login algo I thought of earlier… I should probably research that better.

So we know the following after we login:

$password
$date [from server, from original login]
hash($password + $date)

we could use the $blowfish->key($password);

$blowfish->decrypt whatever comes in afterwards.

on the server each server page will be:

echo $blowfish->crypt($bodytext);

Now the problem… how does the $blowfish->key($password) stay persistant on the client side??
Hmm… I think AJAX will actually be persistant. That’s not a bad situation what so ever. Server traffic intensive, and high overhead. But whatever. The trade off isn’t so bad.

JS on the clientside to decrypt blowfish…

PHP->sessions will allow for the persistance of decrypt methods.

Problem… how does one transmit the password in the first place? Hmmmmm… that’s an issue to me. Like when the account was created. That’s gotta be an issue which I gotta figure out. Cause changing passwords would be an issue as well.

[update]
I GOT IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Setup login creation.
Ask for login, email.
email a random password to the client.
Client will then have to set a new password afterwards… but the random password will be used for the blowfish->key.

With this in mind, flash causes start/finish issues. Flash will try to use an object that hasn’t been completely loaded yet. So checks all these checks have to be put in place.

The alternative to checks, is to preload that objects. Which, if you know nothing about actionscript is a little daughting.

I’m in the middle of writing a modular preloader for dynamic content in actionscript 2. At least the dynamic content’s size can be calculated.

This really shouldn’t be that hard, except the fact that I don’t know the scruture of actionscript. Perhaps this will be the new thing I’m going to learn…

- Select what days they are free to do this project.

- Colate Dates which are good.
- Different shades from Red to Green, where the more green something is, more people can show.

User: ID / Login / Password / email / IM contact

Event: ID / Description /Map / Date Start / Date Finish / Notes (Unique rows)

Event_User: Event.ID / User.ID (Unique rows)

Attendence: User.ID / Attending_bool / Note

Populate Calender:
Given: Event.ID
Select * from attendence, Event_User where Event.ID = $EventID