i had a sudden wierd problem with my site running cpanel. when ever i click on the link in my website, the browser shows a download box for the php file instead of showing a webpage. I did use mod rewrite to make url friendly

How to Fix

I figured out later …

i recently faced a real problem because of this. I decided to move from bluehost because my site kept receiving “cpu exceeded error” page frequently. I moved to a new dedicated server host running cpanel. I did a SCP cpanel account restore and very strangely, when i type my domain …

PHPMyAdmin will not work for uploading large mysql databases. If you attempt to upload a large mysql dataset you will often get this error

Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 300 seconds exceeded

Fix:

If you get this error you will need edit config.default.php inside phpmyadmin and look for this line

$cfg['ExecTimeLimit'] = …

If you are a PHP programmer and if you are using regular expressions with ereg_replace then often with replacing particular characters you might encounter error like

Warning: ereg_replace(): REG_BADRPT

Here is a simple function that causes this error

function OrigURL($str)
{
$out = ereg_replace(‘+’,’ ‘,$str);
return $out;
}

Solution: Just escape the characters. Only then it will …

I was working on a mysql search script with paging where i had to pass the same GET parameters to page numbers like

search.php?q=what+europe+scripts&page=1

I used $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'] to get the GET parameters. But the problem i got was when i was in page 2 it would show query string like

search.php?q=what+europe+scripts&page=1&page=2

and if i …

How to automatically unzip uploaded zip files with PHP

I wanted to upload a zip file with php script and unzip it within the server running PHP and linux. How to do it? i am documenting here about a solution to unpack uploaded zip files locally within the server with PHP. …

Until recently i have encountered a sudden new attacks of spam registrations and many many spam threads posted in my forum. I just cant figure out how as I have already enabled captcha in registration page and enabled email confirmation. Despite this somehow spammers managed to bypass the registration and …

CSS as we go deeper and deeper it gets harder and harder to understand, especially margins, padding and floats could be confusing at times as well. I am going to post here the tutorial to make a very simple CSS website layout (skeleton) with

- Container
- Header
-Top Navigation Menu
- Left …

i was getting this message from vbulletin after logging as administrator. I wasnt able to find the setting in vbulletin control panel that would disable this 180 day password, until i finally figured out.

Your password is 180 days old, and has therefore expired.

Please change your password using this page.

To fix …

ok, you have bought a vbulletin license and looking to customize the look of the forum. Giving a good professional look to your forum can be well worth it to attract more users to signup. If you are willing to spend $20 – $50 there are number of places …