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Great AMFPHP security resource ( French )

http://wiki.mediabox.fr/tutoriaux/flash/amfphp_securite_et_authentification
( look for “secure.php” for an excellent example of code )


Categorized as Flash, Flex, PHP

When Apache ( Xampp ) refuses to start

You got to open the command promt on WinXP and type ( with quotes )
“C:\Program Files\xampp>xampp_start.exe”
If that doesn’t work you can drag the xampp_start.exe from your installation folder onto the command promt and press ENTER. ( this works for other stuff to, try it )
This will give you more information on why things fail, it [...]


Categorized as General, Hosting, PHP, Software

The story of compound keys

Short story: I needed a table that could visualize the relation between two other tables ( services & portfolio ). So I set up a “join table”; a table that has two columns: service_id and portfolio_id. Each column contains a foreign key ( services.id and portfolio.id ).
Now, what you normally do is add [...]


Categorized as Coldfusion, PHP, Ruby On Rails

Safe mode quirks ( PHP )

When working on an upload script I came across an error: “Warning: mkdir(): SAFE MODE Restriction in effect”. Luckily this post came to the rescue. Long story short: use this code snippet to avoid this annoying problem.


Categorized as PHP