Out 10 2008

Easily Load Your Pages Faster With Compressed CSS

Categoria: PHP=IceBurn= @ 12:16 — 665 visualizações

CSS brought us so many possibilities! Luckily, I’ve started my first HTML pages, back in 2004, using style sheets, so the old table based layout that old school designers still use these days simple because they stopped in time 10 years ago, are history.

Now that the possibilities are almost infinite, we started using more and more CSS in web design/(X)HTML structure. But most people forget the essentials, the page loading time and bandwidth spent.
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Out 08 2008

Increased Security With MySQL Based Web Sessions

Categoria: MySQL, PHP=IceBurn= @ 11:29 — 291 visualizações

Sessions are advantageous for activities such as performing log in operations and associating a logged-in user with consecutive requests, tracing multiple-stage online ordering processes and more.

However HTTP is a stateless protocol, which means that web servers treat every request independently of any other. This is where server-side session storage kicks in, but there’s still some security risks.
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Out 02 2008

Count & Display The Total Number of MySQL Queries

Categoria: PHP=IceBurn= @ 18:42 — 863 visualizações

It’s quite often to see at the end of some boards like SMF for example, the total number of the total queries made to the MySQL database.

I understand that some people believe that those queries are retrieved by an extra MySQL query, but the reality is that there is no query for that, so we have to do some extra PHP code.
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Out 01 2008

Change The Time Zone For an Entire Directory

Categoria: Apache=IceBurn= @ 23:06 — 387 visualizações

Usually just because you have your site hosted on a server located in the other side of the globe, does not mean that you have to relay on the server’s time zone.

There are several methods, I’ve used a couple of them myself in the early days when developing my first scripts.

Most of them consisted in setting the time zone in runtime, but sometimes it’s not an easy task, especially when you have a code that is not ready or is not well organized. That means you had to edit each file, setting the time zone.
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Set 30 2008

Install ffmpeg, PHP and eAccelerator on Dreamhost

Categoria: Linux=IceBurn= @ 20:45 — 1.723 visualizações

I recently had to install ffmpeg on a Dreamhost VPS client, but I’m sure that as long as you have shell access, you will be able to install it on any host. You don’t even need to have root access.

If you are looking for a way to install ffmpeg, follow the steps bellow and you will have no problems, as this is an exact transcription of what I did, and I had no problems.
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