PHP5 Installed

Well, it took me nearly two days and an entire bottle of Tylenol, but I managed to do it! Yesterday, PHP5 was installed on my development servers with a little help from Michal at Cornerhost to get ScriptAlias up and running for me.

I’ve been looking into upgrading my code to php5 for a while now, but haven’t had the time, or the capability with what’s presently installed on the servers at Cornerhost. So, after Michal telling me to try installing the programming language as a cgi handler in Apache, I started research into doing just that. Over the past couple days I downloaded and compiled the necessary programs and got them installed on my account. I spent a little while gettingn the configuration in .htaccess just right, but it’s all up and running now.

I will be posting more on what I did to make it happen (basically my project notes) later on today or tomorrow, as I’d like to think there are other people out there who are trying to do this and don’t have a clue where to get started. (Such as myself when I embarked on this quest.) As well, I know how little blatant information is out there right now for anyone trying to do this (as I spent a few hours browsing Google Web and Google Groups to little avail.).

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Happenings

To keep you up to date on what is happening here, and give you an idea of what is to come, I’m going to try my best to keep this front page up-to-date.

So far, things have gone quite well. Work on Portfolio content is coming along at an acceptable rate. I plan to have almost everything complete within the next two weeks. (With work picking up for the Christmas Season, I am going to have less time to devote to my portfolio.) I am hoping to soon get PHP configured properly as to allow for a progress bar in the Portfolio, so you and other clients don’t end up thinking the server has stalled when it is just taking a little while to get everything loaded up.

I am also spending a little time getting my Control Panel up and running again. I re-wrote the client code a while ago, but it seems to be interfering slightly with that of WordPress’s. I have to make a couple of modifications there, and then hopefully I will have the client utilities operational once more.

However, while this is all happening, I am keeping an up-to-date log of the goings-on in my site blog. Stop by there, if you wish, after you visit my portfolio and have a read of the details and / or leave me some comments there. I am also open to e-mail for any comments or questions. My e-mail address is email@chrisbraybrook.com, or you can use the contact form posted on my contact page.

Have yourself a great day, and thanks for stopping by!

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The New Design

Greetings to all of those out there who stumble across this humble little blog and happen to notice that I’m actually in the middle of redesigning my website!

I’d come to the conclusion about a month ago now that the existing site design was in a bad way, and looked absolutely horrible. So, in an effort to drive a little more business my way, and at least show that I have a little design skill in me, I’ve put together this new design and am in the process of porting over the old content of the site into it.

So far, things are going swimmingly. I’ve managed to completely re-write the client authentication code for my control panel, and have set up this article as the main page. Also, as I’m sure you can plainly see, I’ve managed to incorporate my design into the WordPress templating system, giving clients (and myself) access to my blog once more.

I’m in a bit of a hurry to get some other things done, so I’m not going to spend forever regailing you with the ins and out of ‘why I did this’ and ‘why I did that’. I’ll save that for another post. ;) In the mean time, I bid you adieu, and look forward to reading your comments should you leave any.

Have a great visit, and an excellent day!

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