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APD |. It is pretty frustrating to be writing PHP without a debugger. Here’s one that some folks pointed out. I tried another debugger a while back and it was terrible. APD is the Advanced PHP Debugger. It was written to provide strace/truss capability for profiling and debugging php code,…

PHP_CodeDoc – Class: Mail. Wowk, this is a super useful site, they go into every routine that is built with PEAR and document what they are doing since the code itself isn’t documented. Very useful.

ALT-PHP-FAQ – How can I set the include path and other settings that are fixed in php.ini without having access to php.ini?. The include paths on tqhosting are busted, so here is a way to change it if I can access .htaccess or maybe I’ll ask mark@tqhosting.com

PEAR :: Manual: Mail_RFC822. Eureka, I discovered that I had just forgotten the declaration that asks for the right file that is require_once ‘Mail.php’ That’s is. Then you can use the method Mail::parserecipients(“strong”) to get the list. Wow, amazing how i figured this out just when I went to bed.…

SecuriTeam.com ? (Weak MySQL Default Configuration). Ah one last thing is the security on mysql. By default it has a root login with no password. The e-php changes this, so you have to switch it back by editing the config.inc.php file. See the link above.

TAASC: MySQL Basics — A Tutorial. The MySQL installation now can’t connect to apache, so the search goes on. Here is an installation manual.

Web installer. OK, this is very strange, why it didn’t work, but I installed mysql, iis, perl, php and then used the e-php installer and now pear seems to be there. This installation helps me to install a “package” for us.

Parsing email Well, it occurs to me that there must be quite of few people who have written code like this, so a search reveals: PHP: mailparse functions – Manual. These are some routines from the main PHP server itself that let’s you parse the entire stream. Pretty useful like…

PHP: Documentation. I’m learning how to parse an email, grab the email address in the From line and then look it up in a MySQL database. To do that, I’ve printed the source and now I need to learn PHP finally. Usually, Iearn just by reading code, but this is…