Not recognizing database while installing drupal 6.9

Here is the error that I’m receiving (below):

Failed to connect to your MySQL database server. MySQL reports the following message: Access denied for user ‘govspons_bmarkfo’@'localhost’ (using password: YES).
Are you sure you have the correct username and password?
Are you sure that you have typed the correct database hostname?
Are you sure that the database server is running?

A: In your sites folder, do you have a settings.php and a default.settings.php file? if not you should.

Increase the memory-limit in php

When you run wordpress under xamm,
Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 334230 bytes) in D:\xampp\htdocs\test.php on line814.

 1. Open \xampp\apache\bin\php.ini .Do not go to the directory of phpt to find php5.ini .
2. Search”memory” and get the following:

;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
; Resource Limits ;
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

max_execution_time = 60     ; Maximum execution time of each script, in seconds
max_input_time = 60    ; Maximum amount of time each script may spend parsing request data
memory_limit = 32M      ; Maximum amount of memory a script may consume (16MB)

3. Modify the value of “memory_limit =” ,usuall change it to 64M.

4. Reboot Apache.

How to use trim() in php!

trim
(PHP 4, PHP 5)

trim — Strip whitespace (or other characters) from the beginning and end of a string

How to add ads only at the first post?

It is very simple:

<?php if ($wp_query->current_post == 0) : ?>

<div style=”float:right”>

ads come here.

</div>
<?php endif; ?>

If you don’t want the ads show at homepage, using:

<?php if (!is_home()) ?>

Sending Email (Text/HTML/Attachments)

Email is the most popular Internet service today. A plenty of emails are sent and delivered each day. The goal of this tutorial is to demonstrate how to generate and send emails in PHP.

So, you want to send automated email messages from your PHP application. This can be in direct response to a user’s action, such as signing up for your site, or a recurring event at a set time, such as a monthly newsletter. Sometimes email contains file attachments, both plain text and HTML portions, and so on. To understand how to send each variation that may exist on an email, we will start with the simple example and move to the more complicated.

Sending a Simple Text Email
Sending HTML Email
Sending Email with Attachments
Note that to send email with PHP you need a working email server that you have permission to use: for Unix machines, this is often Sendmail; for Windows machines, you must set the SMTP directive in your php.ini file to point to your email server.

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Blocking access to the login page after three unsuccessful login attempts

Sometimes you need to add an extra protection to password-protected website. This article explains how access to the login page can be restricted after three unsuccessful login attempts. This schema uses visitors IP address to store log attempts in the database and block access to login feature for 30 minutes after third unsuccessful attempt.

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How to Get the Current Page URL

Sometimes, you might want to get the current page URL that is shown in the browser URL window. For example if you want to let your visitors submit a blog post to Digg you need to get that same exact URL. There are plenty of other reasons as well. Here is how you can do that. Read the rest of this entry »