Unfortunately for all of you that are to lazy to check and modify your code for PHP 5, your procrastinating days are drawing to a close. Support for PHP 4 ends on December 31, 2007. Ever since the PHP5 official release on July 13, 2004, the PHP group has been supporting both versions 4 and 5 together, allowing plenty of time for the developers to check and tweak their code.

Now to review, the fact that they say they are not supporting it on their website does not mean that you won’t be able to use it. It just means that you shouldn’t expect any more updates. According to PHP’s website, they won’t be releasing any major updates to PHP 4.4 after this year, and they will be releasing critical updates on a case-by-case basis only until August 08, 2008.

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In this entry you will find 2 feed templates ready to work on your TinyButStrong website. All you need to to is include these templates, set some variables, and merge the data block.

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Is your phpBB board being overridden by spam? Most people may recommend that you go to their support forums and install a couple modifications, but what if they don’t work? The answer to that question is simple. All common solutions will not work. If someone puts out a common solution, the spam bots will adapt to it. Spam bots have adapted to captacha images, email verification, and other common defenses. Fortunately, the answer is simple, all you have to do is be unique. I will give you one tip on how you can do that and keep the spam bots at bay.

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This is one of the snippets that that I designed for Pivot.

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This took over 4 hours of debugging for me to figure out. Hopefully, this will save you time. Basically, the problem I was having was that I wasn’t getting the responses necessary from PayPal when I sent the requests from GoDaddy servers. This script made it much easier to get the job done.

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