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After a long battle with spammers, I've finally reopened the forums.

Use this forum for discussion of the serendipity plugin.

I released version .02 into the Serendipity Additional Plugins section tonight. Here's the readme: ------------------------ About ------------------------ This plugin allows you to embed code snippets from various computer languages in your articles, and have the code color/syntax hi-lighted, and op...

Are you running this as a standalone script via php -q start.php, or running it through an apache module by putting the script in webspace and accessing it from a browser? You should be using it as a standalone script, but if you're running it through a browser, that might explain the behavior you'r...

Yes the php.ini file is a configuration file that sets things inside the php engine. If you have a virtual server account with fulll access to the root of the virtual server, you might be able to edit this yourself, but it's also possible that in a shared environment you don't have that ability. The...

I've got enough fixes and mods now that I decided to make my patched wollabot.php available. It fixes bugs that would cause the $data array to be broken in most of the module methods, incorporates my irc password protected server patch, and the other submitted patches on the sourceforge patch list. ...

Some patches have been submitted ot the wollabot project. Make sure to take a look at them here:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_i ... tid=490969

The Password Hack. This hack adds the ability for wollabot to connect to a password protected irc server. Background If you look in the start.php file, you will see that one of the first methods called is $wollabot->connect_and_register(); This method reads params set in the wollabot.ini file and p...

I've been messing around with a PHP bot package called wollabot. The sourceforge page for this package is here: http://wollabot.sourceforge.net The last version released was 0.3.0. All though it was a good start, it looks like wollabot has been abandoned by its developers. I have started messing and...

An online version of the presentation notes and files can be found here: http://www.gizmola.com/IntrotoPHP.htm Unfortunately, this presentation only seems to work correctly under Internet Explorer. The size of the frames and links seem to be broken under Mozilla. A zip archive of the presentation an...

I came up against some problems getting the Documents module to handle some 1 megabyte files. Although these issues aren't all directly related to the module, I thought some people might find this information helpful. In trying to upload a large file (1.5 mb) the behavior I was getting out of the bo...

I recently had the opportunity to do a clean install of 0.9.3-2. I talked to Wendall in irc, and he seemed to verify that the path to the icons has changed in the source, however, the images were not moved into the new location. This means that anyone installing is going to get broken icons. I simpl...

Creating and using a Timing Class. The purpose of this tutorial is to talk about two seperate concepts; profiling and object oriented programming (OOP). In this tutorial we'll create a simple class to allow you to create one or more timers. You can then use these timers to show you how long a scrip...

Yes I'm afraid it has. It appears that InterceptVector had some type of ongoing issue with their bandwidth consumption, and the site went down and remained down for close to two weeks. I noticed that Intercept Vector had returned but weather.interceptvector.com had not (which is where the weather fe...

I posted my first of what I expect to be at least a few PHP Tutorials at Phpfreaks.com. It's entitled: LAMP, MySQL/PHP Database driven website design and development, and the List-Detail-Post paradigm. Part I