Ever have one of those days where you find yourself copying and pasting a ton of HTML code into your WordPress install? You’re making excellent progress moving data over and you feel real proud of yourself. Then something goes wrong.The something I am referring to happened to me this evening. See, I never use the…
Tag: MySQL
A simple program to search large text files
A few years ago I took over webmaster duties for a very active community forum. About a month into the job the unthinkable happened, we lost the table that contained all of the posts! I had backups (7 day rolling system) but the backups were a good 24 hours old and the server kept dropping…
Get on the Web Part 3: FTP
This article is the third in a series of articles written to help you get online. This article does not require you to read any other article in the series (nor must they be read in order).Now that you have some web space and some software you want to install how do you get it…
How To: Use SQL to read private messages on a vbulletin forum
This applies only to super users who have db access rights. This feature should not be abused. It should only be used in cases of harrasment.A problem that sometimes arises is that of users sending nasty-grams via PM to each other. Unlike some forum software, vbulletin does a good job of keeping private messages private.If…