I recently built a site for a client who sells records and CDs and wanted his catalogue of over ten thousand items available for purchase from his site. I used mysql and php for the database handling side of things and, naturally, i suggested a search box to make it easier for customers to find what they were looking for. … Read more »
I’ve recently moved my web sites to a new web hosting service. This has mostly been good, but i’ve had one major problem – and it’s my own fault, really.
I’ve been using subversion to keep some of my live sites in sync with my local development system – it makes life so much easier than manually copying files, and it’s essential if you want to keep control of a lot of files in lots of different web sites. … Read more »
I decided recently that it was time to check out Drupal. Up to now i’ve been using WordPress for web sites that need a drop-in content management system, but Drupal seems to be fairly widely used, so i thought i should learn how to use it. As part of the learning process, i decided to convert this blog from WordPress to Drupal. … Read more »
I’m in the middle of moving from one web hosting company to another and i thought i’d make a note of how i moved my wordpress installations (there are six of them, including this site). I’ve backed up moved, or copied, a few databases over the last few months, but i haven’t done it enough for the commands to stick in my head without having to refer to documentation. The information is in the WordPress codex, but it’s in two separate documents – one about backing up a database and one about restoring from a backup. … Read more »