PHP Error—Even though MySQL Query is Valid

in internet, php | August 13, 2015

One of the most common errors that programmers and web developers will see is the PHP error describing an attempt to “Call to a member function on a non-object.” More often than not, this error gets thrown when trying to communicate with a MySQL database using PHP classes like PDO or MySQLi, which are two common ways to interact with a MySQL database via PHP....

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Cron Job Debugging & Server Management

in Godaddy, php, internet | August 6, 2015

Recently it came to our attention that a site we administer was creating literally thousands of temporary ZIP archive files every day, which was fine since that site relied on dynamic file downloads and creating temporary files was how the site handled this functionality. However, the problem arose when we found out that none of these temporary files were being removed… ever. Logic would dictate...

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Quickly Stop Spam E-mails Coming From Your HTML E-mail Form

in Spam, Email, php | September 26, 2012

Search Engine Optimization is quickly becoming a key piece of creating a commanding web presence. Unfortunately, getting real people to come to your Website sometimes means that Spammers and Spamming Bots or Programs will also go to your website...and then bombard your posts section or inbox with all sorts of undesirable (and sometimes grotesque) messages. If you have an HTML e-mail form on your Website's...

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