I wanted to note ADOdb - an excellent php libary, which I stumbled on a while ago. A taste:

The PHP version currently supports an amazing number of databases, thanks to the wonderful ADOdb community: MySQL, PostgreSQL, Interbase, Firebird, Informix, Oracle, MS SQL, Foxpro, Access, ADO, Sybase, FrontBase, DB2, SAP DB, SQLite, Netezza, LDAP, and generic ODBC, ODBTP

Catch that? Looks like it even has drivers for LDAP - neato! What else could you want? Well, an OAI driver would be pretty darn cool. Sounds like a fun project.

Last week, Stef asked me if I had some general guidelines for doing a wp install at UVM (on zoo).

1. Get a MySQL account.
2. Download WordPress.
3. Unzip the package you downloaded.
4. Open up wp-config-sample.php and fill in your database details (as provided via step 1). Save and rename the file to wp-config.php.
5. Upload all the files to the appropriate location in your public_html (i.e. you might create a “public_html/blog/” directory and upload all the files into there)
6. Run the installation file. Relative to where you uploaded the files, it’ll be in wp-admin/install.php.

That’s usually about it for the install - technically, you’re ready to go. Note most of the above steps are straight from the WP “5 Minute Installation“. I haven’t actually done an install in a little while, but for the most part the process shoudn’t be too different. Read on for further customization & configuration options. (more…)

A while back I ran into some problems with WP not sending emails due to the way mail() is sometimes called under safe mode.

Apparently (this may have been resolved by now - I was running 1.5.x i believe), you can’t pass mail() the optional 5th parameter when running under safe mode.

Here’s a little more info on how to address that.