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Feb 03, 2008 Temporary failure in name resolution in PHP script

This error popped on one of my clients website and it got me stumped. Through SSH, the DNS seemed to work fine. I could run host domain.com, curl, wget, etc - but when php would try to load the url, it failed with the above error. I tried setting different DNS resolver servers, restarted services, and checked for config errors but could not find the source of this problem. So I then turned to google.

Jan 27, 2008 What is XML?

XML stands for extensible markup language. There is a lot of hype over XML and it is talked about as if its a revolutionary programming language, but really it is not. It is nothing more than a way to structure data so that it can be processed and used on any platform or in any app (that is designed to use XML, that is) and in fact, it has been around for 10 years.

Jan 27, 2008 Passing variable values in the url with php

In PHP you have the ability to pass information between pages through the URL. This technique is extremely simple and great for things such as telling a script what bit of information is needs to load (example: a forum topic).

Jan 26, 2008 How to make a CSS menu

How to make a CSS menu A menu is nothing more than a list of links for navigation, so the most ideal way to code your menus are by using a list, styled with CSS. This makes the styling ability very flexible while keeping the content-end of the list completely separate from any styling and in a format that is easy to read when style sheets are not in use or disabled.

Jan 23, 2008 Linux: Automatically backup your mysql databases daily

We've all been there. In the back of your mind you know the importance of backing up critical data, but yet you still manage to let it slip into the To-Do....Later list. Thats where automation comes in to save the day[ta].