Fix Internal Server Error when Installing GetShopped Plugin

Posted on October 23, 2011 by antbrown

In some cases you might be getting a blank (white) screen when trying to active the “wp-e-commerce” plugin from GetShopped.org

Or, a blaring 500 Internal Server Error…

This may be caused by an out of memory error thrown by PHP. To check if this is the case you’ll need to take a look in your php error_log. You’ll see something like:

PHP Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 122880 bytes) in ...

The Solution

If you’re allowed to change the php.ini file on your system then you’ll want to increase the memory_limit to something like 64M, or something bigger than it is now.

On a Shared Hosting platform, or where you don’t have access to the php configuration you’ll need to ask your kindly hosts if they’ll increase the memory_limit for you. Cite the problem, link to this post and that should give them enough info to make the changes for you.

Branching, it’s not just a fad

Posted on June 25, 2011 by antbrown

Not like planking was, anyway…

There was one quote that really got to me this week:

Why do we branch? Isn’t branching bad?

No. Branching, when used this way keeps your trunk clean.

It made me realize how dirty my trunk really is. I mean we all get dirty trunks now and then, but if you’re not branching regularly you may be suffering from a dirty trunk.

Luckily, we have some nice fellows to explain how to branch, branching in groups and general tips on how to keep your trunk clean when the going gets tough.

Sequel Pro and MAMP – Connect by socket

Posted on June 19, 2011 by antbrown

I don’t think sequel pro will ever be a replacement for phpmyadmin, but the user experience makes me want to use it as much as possible.

To get started with a MAMP server setup you just need to find the socket mysql is using, and plug it into sequel pro.

Choose connect by socket in sequel pro and enter this as your socket:

/Applications/MAMP/tmp/mysql/mysql.sock

You can check you’ve got the right path by looking for these lines in your my.cnf.

For MAMP Pro, go: File – Edit Template – MySQL my.cnf

Done.

1Password. Mac + iOS + Dropbox Sync = Ace.

Posted on April 26, 2011 by antbrown

For your security you have hard to remember, different passwords for each online account, right? I never did, it was too hard to remember them all.

Enter stage-left 1Password, the essential auto-form filler for Mac. Support for iPhone, iPad and syncs through Dropbox.

So I get 1Password to generate a new password each time I setup a new online account, it saves it for me too, so when I come back to the website I just hit a key combo (mine’s cmd+\) and it logs me in automatically.

Set it up with Dropbox and you can login to any website while you’re out, in a secure browsing session. or just copy and paste the login info into mobile Safari.

It’s pretty cool, you should check it out.

Hide Zend Studio project files from SubVersion

Posted on April 15, 2011 by antbrown

When you check out a repository and create a new Zend Studio project from it you will find three new hidden files in the root of your svn repository.

To hide these from within Zend Studio, right click the Project, go down to Team, and select “Set Property”

The property you want to set is:

svn:ignore

And the files you want to add in the value field are:

.buildpath
.project
.settings

Now commit your changes and the property for svn:ignore will be sent to the SubVersion repository, you’ll no longer get those hidden files in your repository.

[Solution] “We Were Unable To Decrypt The Certificate Id” – PayPal

Posted on April 1, 2011 by antbrown

My Mum’s website uses PayPal for handling product orders, however after adding the PayPal “Add to Cart” code to a WordPress Post page I kept getting “We Were Unable To Decrypt The Certificate Id” error at PayPal.

It turns out after adding the code in HTML mode you need to go back to Visual mode and click Update/Publish.

Do this and the error goes away, people can happily buy your products and send you praise

Peace
Ant

CodeBox gets Syntax Highlighting for PHP

Posted on March 24, 2011 by antbrown

… and over 100 other languages.

CodeBox is the code snippet management tool for Mac. Quickly create a tag/group database of code snippets and use the shortcut keys to quickly paste in snippets while you work.

Get it on the App Store here

Version 1.2 also gets TextMate theme support, which makes using all of these possible:

TextMate User Submitted Themes

Zend Studio updates to 8.0.1 – Fixes bugs on editing large files

Posted on March 21, 2011 by antbrown

In all versions leading up to and including 8.0, Zend Studio would hang for about 10 seconds when editing html in large .phtml files. (~1,500 lines)

Zend have released a fix for this, and it’s a free and easy update for you. Load up Zend Studio and…

Go to Help | Install New Software
Set Work With field to: http://beta.zend.com/studio/8.0.1/update and hit enter
Hit Select All, click Next and follow the instructions

This has made a big difference for me, hopefully it fixes a few bugs for you too- Might be nice if it updated automatically, or alerted you to updates that are available.

[Solution] configure: error: no acceptable cc found in $PATH

Posted on January 22, 2011 by antbrown

When trying to run ./configure on php for Mac OS X you may see the following error:

configure: error: no acceptable cc found in $PATH

If that’s the case, simply load up your Mac OS X install disc, go to “Optional Installs” and open the file called “Xcode.mpkg”, leave as default and install.

This will remove the error by installing a compiler that is used when building php. The ./configure script checks for its presence, which is why you see the error in the first place.

You can also run into troubles by configuring/building from a directory with a space in it. This is one example:

configure: error: Cannot find php_pdo_driver.h

Just make sure the chain of folders doesn’t include a space.

AdSense for WordPress – The Complete Toolkit

Posted on November 21, 2010 by antbrown

Plugins make it easy, if not automatic, to add blocks of Google Ads to your posts, and as you’ll discover you can customize more than just the Ad size.

Read on and have your Ads displayed on posts older than 7 days, find out which plugins adhere to the Google AdSense Terms of Service and much more.

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