Phill Sparks' Comments

• Re: cURL Error 26: Failed to open/read local data from file/application

  Phill Sparks wrote:

  Hi Jackson, how is your post data formatted? CURL needs it like this: "Hello=World&Foo=Bar&Baz=Wombat"; perhaps you could paste some code for me to have a look at?

  Sun 28th December, 2008

• Re: cURL Error 26: Failed to open/read local data from file/application

  Phill Sparks wrote:

  Thanks to Ed for fixing this error in Phlickr. This blog post will remain for anyone else dabbling with cURL.

  Wed 10th December, 2008

• Re: SSH Avahi Service

  Phill Sparks wrote:

  Ah neat trick! Are there any other % vars that you have come across? I prefer nice names rather than hostnames when I browse bonjour. Some services are bonjour aware, maybe we should look at how to go about patching each?

  Sun 28th September, 2008

• Re: Moderator CP 1.2.9

  Phill Sparks wrote:

  If you want moderators to have full power in the modcp simply copy the admin_users.php file from your admin directory and the related template files. Be warned that this will mean they can delete your admin users too! You may want to edit the script to protect against that kind of action.

  Mon 18th August, 2008

• Re: Moderator CP 1.2.9

  Phill Sparks wrote:

  Hmm, wow. I've not played with the FI themes for ages. I normally suggest that you try and stick with the SubSilver/SubBlack theme for modcp if you can. Otherwise have a look through the admin templates for your FI template. Much of the template code is the same for modcp as the admin See how the SubSilver templates differ between the admin and modcp and you should find it easy to make modcp FI templates. If you like I'll happily host any working modcp templates for future generations

  Fri 20th June, 2008

• Re: Tracking visitors with Google Analytics

  Phill Sparks wrote:

  I'm not so fussed about getting a source for people who read my feeds in an aggregator like Google Reader, but more if they are being syndicated like the LSUCS Planet and facebook. But yes that link would work

  Tue 10th June, 2008

• Re: Tracking visitors with Google Analytics

  Phill Sparks wrote:

  Heh, cheers for the comment Dan. I'm more interested in just finding out usage information for my feeds, website, etc. I also like to keep trying out new toys and features to see if they're useful for any other sites I might build

  Tue 10th June, 2008

• Re: Finding the Character Map in Mac

  Phill Sparks wrote:

  Ah, good find! It's that config button that I so often don't explore when I get a new dialogue open with "Characters" hidden right in the middle.

  Tue 22nd January, 2008

• Re: cache.php

  Phill Sparks wrote:

  I've noticed that when loading more than a couple of images from the cache for the first time it often doesn't load them all (though they're being cached) so I'm experimenting with a few tweaks including adding an arbitrary amount of time onto the Last-Modified header and also redirecting the user once they've triggered a first-time load. Hopefully this combination will help

  Mon 19th November, 2007

• Re: cache.php

  Phill Sparks wrote:

  It wasn't getting the caching quite right at times Now that I've worked out most of the kinks I've definately noticed it working a lot quicker.

  Mon 22nd October, 2007

• Re: Moderator CP

  Phill Sparks wrote:

  Hi there,

  I've successfully updated the mod following the previously linked instructions and tested installing it with EasyMod. For your convenience I've uploaded the working changes to 1255_modcp.zip.

  Phill

  Tue 2nd October, 2007

• Re: cache.php

  Phill Sparks wrote:

  I would expect you to see more of a performance increase than myself as when I visit the site I'm often getting internal network speeds the thing I've noticed dreamhost is good at is the really simple / static stuff which this is. If you have a wander around the gallery, then clear your cache and view again you should notice some improvements!

  Tue 2nd October, 2007

• Re: Moderator CP

  Phill Sparks wrote:

  Hi there,

  The instructions in "How to add new Modules" should help you here. Basically change all of the admin/ in the install script and within the php files to modcp/.

  Phill

  Mon 1st October, 2007

• Re: MilkHub Fonts

  Phill Sparks wrote:

  Cool, cheers dude

  Sun 23rd September, 2007

• Re: MilkHub Fonts

  Phill Sparks wrote:

  I need to make a list of the smilies too, and put a formatting guide on here too! I don't think that manhattan has a thumbs up smilie, have you seen any in the iconbuffet collection?

  Sun 23rd September, 2007

• Re: MilkHub's New Home

  Phill Sparks wrote:

  It is a bit worrying that my home computer can do it faster, but it's mostly because Redtop's not really doing anything else!

  Mon 17th September, 2007

• Re: MilkHub is born

  Phill Sparks wrote:

  No problem dude.

  Thu 11th January, 2007