When a user is submitting a form it would be nice to give them a tracking number. In order to do this it might be necessary to load the submission tree in code and locate the submission id. It is not otherwise available as a substitution token.…
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I’m having a bit of fun playing with the Twitter Module for Drupal. The project has not been updated since July but there is a lot of discussion about how to patch it. For the uninitiated, this module posts a ‘tweet’ on Twitter whenever you post something to your web site.…
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After much research and shopping around, I finally took the advice of a friend and checked out HostGator. I really liked what I found. They offer affordable hosting packages with reasonable bandwidth ceilings. I’m still worried about bandwidth but unless I’m lucky enough to get on Digg, I should not have a problem.…
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I think I finally have gotten my Apache problems settled down. I’m not sure what set it off. I made the mistake of updating the system software with a security patch. That updated PHP. Since I am running a custom PHP, I had to recompile and install PHP again to get libGD loaded.…
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I’m getting ready to release my new software version testing it here, first.
I have been hosting web sites in ASP for about 11 years now. I have a large investment in time and code in ASP. There are some tools that I want to work on in Java or PHP. I had those projects hosted on an old Blue & White G3 but the performance was never really there.…
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