PHP Programming

Hopefully this hasn’t already been discussed; I searched all over the web and couldn’t find a good answer, so I figured it out myself and thought I’d spread the word!

So I had a couple of DVDs of wedding footage shot by my wife’s great uncle, and I wanted to edit the footage in iMovie 08. First I tried Handbrake to create a M4V file, but no dice, iMovie wouldn’t read that format. Then I figured out this method: (more…)

1. Turn off your Mac. Perhaps hold the power button down until it turns off.
2. Hold the SHIFT key down and startup. Be patient as it may take awhile.
3. DO NOT LOGIN yet. Click the back arrow (Restart).
4. Your computer should start installing the hazardous upgrades.
5. Allow your computer plenty of time to install and auto-restart.
6. You should be able to login and access all of the files you through were destroyed. (more…)

So, you decided to upgrade to Mac Tiger Workstation and your PHP service stopped working. No fear, as PHP will still work fine once you make a simple change to your Apache 2 configuration file. Previous versions of Mac OS 10.4 and below were using Apache 1 series, not Apache 2 series. You need only un-comment a single line in the Apache httpd.conf file. Knowing where it is and how to modify it is not something most developers bother with. Assuming you have the permissions to make the needed change, your PHP service will be up in mere moments. (more…)