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 Having a problem updating your server using EasyApache? Did you see a message like this?Your OS software management system does not appear to be functioning correctly.Please visit http://www.cpanel.net/support/could_not_ensurepkgs.htm for help with this error. Look close at the on screen message. Do you see the word conflict anywhere?  I searched Google, cPanel and some of the top tech sites to find the so...

 Who Wants A Free Blog? Host Wonderful Website Hosting and Design is giving away free blogs. Blogs are a great way yo make extra money in your spare time. The Mike Howey blog doesn't make much, but I don't put much time into it. Even with very little posts and very little time I can make a few hundred posting stuff like this.  If you didn't already know, a good blog can make as much as $10,000 a month. A great blog c...

  Sometimes you need to send several bits of info with 1 select box (Dropdown)  A simple way to do this is to separate with a pipe. |     Setup your form as normal but separate the value using a pipe. | < select name="hosting_service">     < option value="6|3.95">6 Month Basic Hosting        < option value="12|33.95">1 Year...

Sometimes you only want to grab the first image of a post. Handy for blog posts. This is really easy :)        Call your Post how ever you normally do.   $SQL = "SELECT * FROM BLOG WHERE article_status = '1'";        $result = mysql_query( $SQL );        while( $row = mysql_fetch_array( $result ) ) {    ...

Now a days most website use a index.php file that calls in PHP scripts. These pages are often unprotected. A very simple way to protect the sub pages is to do an "if empty" statement. The included page is something like the code block below. I try to never call an html page. Someone can easily view your code source using html. include_once("/function/blog/page.php");  1.) Insert something like this on your index.p...

Ok, say today id is September 9, 2011 and you need to know how many days until December 23, 2011. The example below is what I use to see when a customer owes hosting. I use a jquery calendar that displays the date like this 12/23/2011. I save it to my SQL database like this. Makes it easy for me and my customers to read.I don't like math so this is what I do.First get your due date or future date. $due_date = "12/23/2011"; &nb...