http://www.stevp.co.uk A Stevp into the unknown Sun, 03 Aug 2008 15:11:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've been doing a lot this week with PHP's built in mail function. One of the projects i'm working on will require automated emails to be sent at regular intervals, so i've been weighing up the best way to achieve this. First things is first, i needed to enable the PHP ... http://www.stevp.co.uk/?p=37 Have had a busy few weeks if you'll forgive the lack of blogging of late. I've got a number of projects on the go at work. The main achievement of the week has been adding tick boxes (thats "checkboxes" for our US listeners) to a dynamic page written in php, ... http://www.stevp.co.uk/?p=36 Have been incredibly busy this last week. I've been working on several ASP applications and not had much time for anything else. The first is a logging system. Enties are made throughout the day to a MS access database through an ASP front end.  Once the entry is submitted a ... http://www.stevp.co.uk/?p=35 Earlier I've done a couple of How Tos which require IIS to already be installed. so I suppose I should cover this in a How To aswell. To install IIS in Server 2003 you must add the "Application Server" role from the "Manage your server" page. Select the "add role" option ... http://www.stevp.co.uk/?p=34 Just a quick one. Stevp's Blog has now moved to a new URL, you should now be viewing at www.stevp.co.uk . Changing the URL required a few steps, so here they are. First I registered the new domain name and changed the site's DNS entries to point at my web hosting server. Here ... http://www.stevp.co.uk/?p=33 The last couple of days have been hectic. The planned Moodle migration was brought forward quite abruptly as the mainboard of the current webserver gave up and moved on to a better place. Migrations and disaster recovery are much easier when its not a real scenario. However, after a twelve ... http://www.stevp.co.uk/?p=32 Earlier I wrote a How To detailing the installation of PHP. One of the biggest benefits of PHP is it's ability to talk to databases. I use MySQL databases for several things, most notably for Moodle. Here is another How To explaining the procedure I use to install MySQL Server. This installation ... http://www.stevp.co.uk/?p=30 My primary use of Server 2003 is for webserving. I have no aversion to Linux / Apache but the network at work is all Windows. Installing PHP on Server 2003 can be a little awkward so I thought I'd put together another How To detailing the procedure I ... http://www.stevp.co.uk/?p=29 The trust relationships between two server 2003 domains was complicated and i got stuck, so instead turned my attentions to playing with DNS. The main thing i gained from the exercise was that i learnt how to set up and use DNS forwarders for name requests. A situation where you would ... http://www.stevp.co.uk/?p=27 I've just added the Youtube Plugin from here. Again, another thanks to gumbald for pointing this out. [youtube]dMH0bHeiRNg[/youtube] Does anybody else think this guy looks quite a bit like MrGary? (Check out MrGary's Blog.) edit: And don't forget the big round of applause and debt of gratitude owed to the plugin creator Mr ... http://www.stevp.co.uk/?p=26