Monthly Archives: March 2012

cPanel To End Support For PHP 4

cPanel announces that EasyApache will no longer support PHP 4 beginning May, 2012. PHP 4 has not been actively developed, or supported by the PHP developers, for several years. Many CVEs reported against newer versions of PHP are also applicable … Continue reading

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Growing your solution – Part 2

In the first part we looked at adding an additional server to your solution which took on the role of being a a dedicated database server. More Web Servers – Adding a dedicated database server should free up resources from … Continue reading

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A Useful VIM Tip

As system administrators, we often have to login to servers and modify files – whether they’re configuration files or php scripts. Occasionally these are files which may have previously been edited and uploaded by somebody using Windows, in which case … Continue reading

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Yum Shell

On Red Hat based Linux systems, such as CentOS, the most common way to install software and applications is to use the package manager Yum. The standard command line options should be familiar to anyone with even basic sysadmin experience, … Continue reading

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Get the last day of the Month with Zend Date

When you’re creating reports you will often work with a date range, a start date and end date.  If it’s a monthly report the user will select month and pass this to the report function. This function will then work … Continue reading

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PHP 5.4 Released

Last week saw the release of PHP 5.4. The new version has had the following improvements added: New language syntax including Traits, shortened array syntax and more Improved performance and reduced memory consumption Support for multibyte languages now available in … Continue reading

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