Posts Tagged “hack”

Vanilla forum: MySQL sockets installation

| 29 January, 2011 | 2 comments

This morning I wanted to hack around with Vanilla forums and convert a phpBB 3 installation over to it. After several attempts at the installer I found that I couldn’t run it ‘as is’ on my 1&1 managed server. The issue is that Vanilla’s PDO connection method has been written to only work with host access (such [...]

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SlideShare API without url_file_open

| 24 January, 2009 | Leave your comment

Recently while writing some code that utilised the SlideShare API I found myself on a server which had url_file_open turned off in the php.ini and this couldn’t be over-rode with a .htaccess file either. So I had to re-write the code which used file_get_contents using the cURL library. I needed to replace the get_data function [...]

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