hostgator upgrades all their servers to PHP & MySQL 5

February 13th, 2008 • 1 comment php, random
Tags: hostgator, mysql5, php5, webhosting

I was very pleased to receive an e-mail from hostgator today, in which they stated that they will be upgrading all servers to have MySQL 5 and PHP 5 installed by default! I hope this will send out a message to the other hosting firms, which would finally allow us to start using PHP5 in all our opensource projects.

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Microsoft boycots adsense

February 11th, 2008 • 2 comments google, microsoft, random

The title may be a bit too harsh, but it still remains a funny sight! Using the latest anti-phishing, the google adsense page is being blocked by Internet Explorer 7. You are recommended not to continue – and perhaps to use live search instead, we all know it’s better anyway!

always_populate_raw_post_data disabled? here’s a workaround

February 11th, 2008 • 2 comments php, snippets

Since HostGator does not support changing the value of always_populate_raw_post_data in PHP to “1″, I had to find a work around. After spending an hour Googling my issue and it turning zero-dot-zero results I was forced into being creative.

Appearantly you can use the input wrappers to go around this setting. Perhaps you could find this useful in the future

[snippet]<php
if(!$HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA){
$HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA = file_get_contents(‘php://input’);
if(empty($HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA))
{
// die here
}
}
[/snippet]