Posts under ‘PHP’

finding the perfect Virtual Private Server (VPS)

I’ve been searching for a cheap VPS for some of the projects I’m working on. I needed an affordable plan… (by that I mean CHEAP! <$20) with great stability and reasonable support.
This sounds almost impossible to pull off… even in today’s world. Most popular shared plans cost more than $20…
But wait, introducing Unmanaged VPS [...]

installing APC & uploadprogress on CentOS 5 [updated]

First, we need the pecl command so we can download and install APC from the repositories. I use the “remi” repo to give me the latest packages, so use “–enablerepo=remi” if you have it installed.
yum install php-pear
But, this will not run on its own, we need the following package for the phpize command:
yum install php-devel
We [...]

include PHP inside custom Drupal modules

In an attempt to make my sites more dynamic and easier to manage, I use PHP includes quite extensively. I like the idea of make a change in a single file and have it propagated to other sections of the site that call upon it.
However, when you want to have multiple custom modules in Drupal [...]

New projects…

busy busy busy…
Got another Drupal project booked… this time I’ll be using UberCart instead of OsCommerce. UberCart is a native Drupal module that offers comprehensive e-commerce features to the platform. UberCart does require some effort to configure and it really doesn’t work straight out of the box (unlike OsCommerce) but it takes full advantage of [...]