Following the tutorial Simfony (known PHP Framework) to the preliminary pre-requisite, reflected the lack of XSL module under Apache and PHP. Specifically, the message I found was: [[WARNING]] XSL module is installed: FAILED *** Install the XSL module (recommended for Propel) *** The workaround is to install apt-get the missing modules as follows: sudo apt-get [...]

Today, services like Twitter impose the use of short URL, certainly in the network there are several free services, but if we want something we can use custom WordPress to create a dedicated service to our blog. The trick is to exploit the demand for each item, calling for his ID stored in the database. [...]

Google Buzz is now on everyone’s lips for being anti Facebook situation. It’s time to exploit this situation to your blog, because the service is heavily oriented social network. Technically Google Buzz is largely integrated into Google Reader, the aggregator of RSS feeds, so we can exploit this relationship to create an appropriate button. You [...]

If you get this error: Fatal error: session_start(): Failed to initialize storage module: The solution is changing your current php.ini settings for session.save_handler user to session.save_handler files. Edit your php.ini file from: [Session] ; Handler used to store/retrieve data. session.save_handler = user to [Session] ; Handler used to store/retrieve data. session.save_handler = files If you [...]

From Office 97 version, the World famous spreadsheet can read html table’s like a spreadsheet rows and colums. With this interesting feature we can create .xls file on the fly from php with a simple play of <table> html tag. Here the code 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 [...]

Pre-requisites: Database host or IP Database name Username and password access of db. First we need to declare some critical data like username and password, so i strongly recommended to store this value into a different file where php will ask tables and data, this for security reason. In the php convension, usually we make [...]