A php application on a cpanel server kept throwing this: Fatal error: Call to undefined function pcntl_fork() in /path/blah.php on line 5 The fix requires recompiling php with –enable-pcntl Fortunately cpanel offers the Easy Apache script. The bad part is that it doesn’t have an option for pcntl. So you have to specify it...
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Error noticed in Joomla site apache logs
rowsing trough my web logs I found the following error in the apache error log of a Joomla site: View Code APACHELOG1 PHP Notice: Array to string conversion in aaa/libraries/joomla/html/parameter.php on line 83 One suggestion found online was: Edit parameters.php and change the line 83 as...
Web interface for Zabbix didn’t load
I was installing today Zabbix on a CentOS 5.6 machine and hit the following error when trying to load the PHP Web Interface: View Code BASH1 PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function bcscale() in /var/www/zabbix/include/defines.inc.php on line 797 The fix was one package install away: View Code BASH1 # yum -y install php-bcmath...
Add php APC and UploadProgress support to CentOS
I was playing today with some file uploading scripts and noticed that they require one of the two in order to be able to display a progress bar. Those are the steps required to enabled both of them on centos: View Code BASH1 2 3 yum install php-pear php-devel httpd-devel pcre-devel pecl install apc...
Make Joomla 1.0 work with PHP 5.3
With the recent posts regarding resurrecting old stuff, recently I had to resurrect a Joomla 1.0 site. Soon enough I discovered that the home page doesn’t display correctly. No errors, just lots of white space . The problem is that Joomla 1.0 is not really made for PHP 5.3. Of course I could have...
Uploading big files via php
I’m updating a site for a client that only has file access to his hosting account via a php file manager (extPlorer for Joomla to be precise). He needed uploaded a few flash videos (in excess of 15 Mb each) but extPlorer stated that the file limit for php was set to 8 Mb....
Custom csv export from virtuemart
One of my clients needed a custom feed of his virtuemart products. I did a quick google check and nothing came up, so I decided to write my own. Please note that I’m not a programmer and I bet it can be done faster, better and more elegant, still this works, so … View...
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