Monthly Archives: July 2010

phpMailer – Could not instantiate mail function

Posted on July 27th, 2010 by Ryan

Had a client getting this error when trying to send emails last week and have now spent several hours on Google trying to find a solution. Biggest catch is that other scripts were able to send mail, so it seemed … Continue reading →

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bit.ly and PHP

Posted on July 24th, 2010 by Ryan

Needed a quick and easy way to create a bit.ly URL for another site of mine. Google came through for me. David Walsh posted a short PHP function on his site that takes your bit.ly login, API key, and the … Continue reading →

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Missing httpd.conf in WHM / cPanel

Posted on July 24th, 2010 by Ryan

Came across an error after mistakenly clicking a link in my hosting control panel. At the time, WHM was working but none of the sites on the server would load. Trying to restart httpd manually from PuTTY resulted in an … Continue reading →

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Quick PHP wrapper for print_r

Posted on July 23rd, 2010 by Ryan

Working on web apps I find myself using the print_r command a lot, and I mean a lot. It helps trace out what data is going where, and more often what’s not going where it’s supposed to. A few months … Continue reading →

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Mario on a sidewalk curb

Posted on July 9th, 2010 by Ryan

Definitely cool for those of y’all that grew up playing Mario.

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