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WAMP Server using PHP5.3 not starting – Status Yellow

I have used XAMPP for years and it has worked well. I decided to try out WAMP Server. It has allowed me to switch between different versions of Apache, PHP, and MySQL. Some info I run a Windows 7 Home Premium OS. Well I decide to start running it in PHP 5.3 by default and [...]

GoDaddy SMTP Email Relay

I just spent several hours trying to figure out how to send an SMTP email with attachment from GoDaddy using PHPMailer. You can only do it via GoDaddy’s email relay. Here is the code for those looking.

Malware Scanner

Well one of the latest issues out there in the development would is this issue of infected websites that drop malware. Most of the time this is caused by not keeping your code up to date in the most secure methods of coding. Most open source code is taking this into consideration. However if its [...]

Generic Input Sanitizer

With the ever increasing attacks on websites for place malware links and site defacement a programmer must be ready.  Also many times these attacks are on older systems that need to be supported.  I have developed a PHP 5.x approach to this.  The code is a block of code that can be added at the [...]