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Downgrade PHP 5.3 Port to 5.2.10

10.07.09 // PHP // (2) // 303 views

It’s pretty simple!
Just make sure subversion client is installed and then checkout the php port file with the revision number of 53555 which is the latest for the 5.2.10:

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svn co -r 53555 http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/trunk/dports/lang/php5
cd php5
sudo port install +fastcgi+mysql5+pear

Or you can simply use the branch of PHP 5.2 via:

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sudo port install php52 +fastcgi+mysql5+pear

Happy porting!

Ultimate Guestbook Tutorial: How to build a Guestbook with a honeypot, error checking, IP banning, pagination, e-mail notification and smilies with PHP and mySQL

04.26.08 // PHP // (57) // 44,670 views

In this tutorial i will teach you how to make a guestbook script with PHP and mySQL. Guestbooks are very common today on the internet and are great for getting user feedback or a simple hello from your site fan’s. This tutorial will feature form submission techniques, user input error handling, smilies, honeypot traps, and [...]

Tutorial: How to build a poll system with PHP and mySQL

04.11.08 // PHP // (68) // 42,082 views

If you have been doing the other tutorials on this site you will notice that I have been teaching PHP and mySQL through projects. Projects that you can slot into your website, or if you are building a project, code that you can use within your project. I start from the ground up, assuming you [...]

HowTo: Get Cookies Across Subdomains PHP

04.08.08 // PHP // (6) // 4,564 views

So you are using cookies on your website, but when a visitor visits www.yourdomain.com and yourdomain.com the cookie doesn’t get set across both! That is because in essence, www. is simply a subdomain. The “www” component is not a protocol, it is not necessary, instead all it is, is just a marketing ploy. But anyway. [...]

Tutorial: How to make an Image Upload and Thumbnailer Script with cURL

04.08.08 // PHP // (3) // 6,712 views

So you have completed the file upload tutorial. The tutorial has taught you how to upload an image using a form, and then it auto makes a thumbnail and shows it to you, nice. Now lets say you are on a public computer, and can’t save to the desktop or whatever. So you would like [...]

Tutorial: How to make an Image Upload and Thumbnailer Script PHP

04.08.08 // PHP // (7) // 13,083 views

In this tutorial we will make a thumbnailing script using PHP. The script will allow your users to upload their images using a html form, and then be shown the thumbnail and a link to the file on completion. Also the user will be able to specify a max height or width if they want [...]

Howto: Get Number of Rows

04.08.08 // PHP // (0) // 346 views

If you have a MySQL table and you want to know how many records there are in this table you can run a query on the entire table for example:

<?php
 
//setup a query to select all items
$query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM `tablename`");
 
//now use the magic row counter droid
$rows = mysql_num_rows($query);
 
echo $rows;
?>

This will show you how many [...]

Tutorial: Doing basic MySQL database stuff

04.08.08 // PHP // (0) // 473 views

This tutorial is quite easy. If you want to connect to a mysql database you can use something like this:

$host = ‘localhost’;
$username = ‘yourusername’;
$password = ‘yourpassword’;
$databasename = ‘yourdbname’;
 
//don’t edit this stuff okay?
 
$connect = mysql_connect($host, $username, $password);
$selectdb = mysql_select_db($databasename);
 
if($connect == true){
echo ‘Connected fine!’;
} else {
echo ‘Bad Username or Password…..or host dummy!!!!’;
}
 
if($selectdb == true){
echo ‘Connected to DB [...]