Php

Experiencing Technical Difficulties

Right now, for some reason, I can’t access my WordPress admin. Well, I can. In one way. I can click around on the top menu. The thing is that, nothing appears below as I do this.

WordpressAdminDisappeared

The cause: rebuilding my PHP install to add new modules.

The solution: I have no clue until I start sniffing around a bit.

Troubleshooting route:

  • Upgrading my WordPress installation to the latest version and hope for the best. This worked once for an issue I was having and I didn’t ask any questions. And it needs this anyway.

Santa Fe Office Interiors – Running on Drupal

I am not saying it’s the best site that I have built and the css and layout still needs a little work, but it works great for now and it took very little time to set this site up and modify an old Photoshop template to work. It’s using tables which, I know, in website design today is a no no, but with the deadline I was trying to meet to have at least a usable site didn’t allow for rewriting a whole table based template in css. And I know I still need to create mouseover effects on the links in the header graphic.

Wee little update

Actually a big one. WordPress recently came out with 2.2. Just found out. It has widgets now just like everything else. But they’re cool and make adding plugins easier. Thought I’d get a new theme and throw some extras in. Took the Adsense off. Always seemed tacky to me. Didn’t make much from this site anyway.

It must have an autosave function like Gmail, because it has a save time under this box I’m typing in. Added the MyBlogLog thing that I’ve seen on a lot of other people sites. Hey, what the hell, I’d jump off the bridge if other people were doing it to.

Installing PHP on Vista

I actually found the answer to this problem pretty quickly.

The php installation software did not work for some reason on Windows Vista. The only thing I saw that the installation program did incorrectly was that it id not add index.php as a directory index.

Therefore simply changing this: DirectoryIndex index.html

To this: DirectoryIndex index.html index.php

fixed the problem.

I also copied php.ini to Windows folder for good measure. Why? Because someone said to do that in a forum. I figured it couldn’t hurt anything, not being an executable to begin with.

tutorialicious

tutorialicious : Community driven Programming and Photoshop tutorial links

My type of site. I have learned more about programming by online tutorials than textbooks.

Drupal

drupal.org | Community plumbing

I have yet to use Drupal for a site, but a list of successful sites using the software shows me I might need to look into Drupal. Users have contributed everything from ecommerce packages to themes to make the software universal for any need you might happen to have.