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WordPress: Increasing memory allocated to PHP

If on your WordPress Dashboard you are seeing an error something like this:

Fatal error: Allowed memory size…

try adding the following to the wp-config.php file in the root directory of your blog:

define(‘WP_MEMORY_LIMIT’, ’64M’);

Skype Message editing

I always try and keep my spelling tidy: when using any IM application, I usually retype words I mis-spell, prefixed by ** to indicate a correction.

So if you are a Skype user, and hate watching your spelling errors travel slowly up the IM window hanging their serifs in shame, help is at hand!

Skype message [...]

I recently did some work for a friend who wanted to display a PDF on a website. Rather than display a link to download the PDF, or open it in a separate browser window (or tab), I used the <embed> tag.

Simply use the embed tag to embed the pdf as an object in the page. [...]

PHP email address validation

I discovered today that the PHP email validation in my User class was not allowing dashes…

A quick search on the internet came up with:

function is_valid_email($email)
{
$result = TRUE;
if (!eregi(“^[_a-z0-9-]+(\.[_a-z0-9-]+)*@[a-z0-9-]+(\.[a-z0-9-]+)*(\.[a-z]{2,4})$”, $email))
{
$result = FALSE;
}
return $result;
}

Thanks http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/1504

Stop the Skype plugin from breaking your design

It took me a bit of searching to find this line of code to stop the Skype browser plug-in from automatically styling all the telephone numbers in your [...]

MySQL sub-query

I have blogged before about simplicity in code – how the simplest solutions are usually the best, and I normally put it down to [...]

MySQL simplicity

I love the fact that the best solutions are almost always the simplest!

I spend a lot of time sanitising data. I use Excel a lot of the time to perform most of the work – but I am slowly starting to use more and more SQL in my MySQL databases to do the work.

Today after [...]

favicon generator

I am usually really quick to share links to cool sites and utilities, but I am somehow hesitant to share this one… it is just too cool!

A “favicon” is the little icon that you will see appear in various places in your browser – if it is available it will replace the standard Firefox / [...]

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