Fran's blog

Or an alternative title: “Be very careful when you cut and paste from web pages”.
I’m a bit tired of doing var_dump debug on PHP, as today I debug lot of PHP lines every day and use complexer architectures as Joomla! CMS than simpler LAMP, I need to set up Eclipse to work with XDebug [...]

I’ve found this problem many times in VirtueMart forums, but never solved. If you do not know that, VirtueMart is a virtual shop component for Joomla CMS. It’s a good piece of code, however it has some problems -often not very important ones-, and its customization sometimes need hacking its code a bit.
I’m building one [...]

I’ve wrote this script to restore rdiff-backups with regular users conserving the files ownerships.
The problem is that in modern UNiX systems -like GNU/LiNUX- regular users cannot change the owner of files because this is a security thread, so to allow that rdiff-backup could restore file ownership it must run as superuser -root-.
This script acts as [...]

I must find the manner of use the same GNUCash files from different machines, one with GNU/Linux and another one with Windows. I’ll put those files in a host that may be accessed by the two machines through SSH.
So, the first thing we need is remote SSH access to that file system. As with GNU/Linux [...]

Just an example of using xmlrpc-2.2.1 library for PHP, for creating a new post on a WordPress based blog using MetaWeblog.newPost xml/rpc function.
Of course, you’ll need xmlrpc-2.2.1 library that may be found here. MetaWeblog API documentation may be found here.

// Testing metaWeblogApi
require_once dirname(__FILE__)."/xmlrpc-2.2.1/lib/xmlrpc.inc"; // This should be changed with the place you’ve the xmlrpc.inc file [...]

Presentation of my new blog.