Linux & PHP

In this tutorial we are going to show you how to connect to your Pipe Ten MySQL databases using Dreamweaver CS5.5 (this will also work with earlier versions of Dreamweaver). In order to use the MySQL manager in Dreamweaver you … Continue reading →

To change between active and passive modes within our recommended FTP package FileZilla, we’ve put together the short guide below.

With the deployment of our new SSD shared server web3.pipeten.co.uk comes the public beta testing of softaculous, a simple interface that lets you install and keep updated over 50 popular Linux web applications including Magento, Joomla and WordPress.

Social Engine is a PHP-based social networking platform. There is a range of templates and add-ons available to extend the basic features already included in the SocialEngine core.

If your website is still showing “© 2011″ and it should be “© 2012″ then take the opportunity to update once and have it correct forever using one of the code snippets below:

It’s only a few hours/days since WordPress 3.3 ‘sonny’ was released and after many customer and staff blog upgrades via the internal automatic/FTP updater we have seen no upgrade related problems at all. Stay tuned to our WordPress feed for … Continue reading →

Pipe Ten are one of the leading providers for Drupal Hosting in the UK. Drupal is a popular PHP open-source cms with over 13,000 active developers, 710,148 users in 228 countries speaking 181 languages! It is used for high profile websites … Continue reading →

With around 8.5% of all world’s websites powered by it, and Pipe Ten customers using WordPress Hosting more and more each day, we’ve put together this post about securing WordPress and keeping your blog safe. In no particular order: 1. Avoid … Continue reading →

The first step to debugging any problem Magento is to enable and check the Magento logs and this quick guide shows you how to do that with your Magento hosting. To enable Magento error logs: Login to your Magento administration. … Continue reading →

In rare circumstances after upgrade or account migration sub-FTP users may need re-applying to the control panel in order to correct permission problems. This short tutorial below outlines how to quickly fix this issue. 1. Login to your hosting control … Continue reading →

PHP magic_quotes is a configurable option for PHP which when enabled provides automatic escaping of the ‘, “, \ and null characters within incoming data/variables. What is magic_quotes? Magic quotes had the intention of helping starting PHPers write protected SQL … Continue reading →

Magento is an open source based ecommerce web application. The Magento Community Edition is the only free version of Magento available and works perfectly with Pipe Ten’s Magento hosting. All other versions of Magento are not free. Here is further … Continue reading →

WordPress is a very popular free publishing platform powered by PHP and MySQL for creating your website or blog. There are thousands of WordPress themes and plugins available to very easily allow you to customise it to suit your exact … Continue reading →

We’re very pleased to announce that our hosting infrastructure now supports a massive 256MB PHP memory_limit for all newly created Linux shared and reseller hosting accounts. After listening to customer feedback and assessing the memory profiles of the most popular … Continue reading →

For the past few years we have as policy prevented the use of PHP allow_url_fopen on our shared and reseller web servers in order to mitigate against the most common code exploits and attack vectors seen within customers PHP code. … Continue reading →

It’s only a few days since WordPress 3.2 was released and after hundreds of customer and staff upgrades via the internal automatic/ftp updater we have seen no upgrade related problems at all. The following shared and reseller servers have been … Continue reading →

When transferring MySQL databases between hosts or servers there are various methods available from the web based phpMyAdmin to remote GUI clients such as Toad. One of our favourites is the classic mysqldump and mysql-client due to their simplicity, portability … Continue reading →

In response to a number of PHP email sending related support queries we’ve put together this post outlining the most basic sending method and referencing some of the more advanced PHP email topics. Additional information on PHP mail related functions … Continue reading →

One of the best things about WordPress is the wealth of plugins available to really let your WordPress website get the most from your WordPress hosting. We have highlighted some of the best ones below to give you the edge … Continue reading →

PHP is supported on all Linux and Windows hosting accounts however PHP support on Windows is feature limited. Linux is recommended for all serious PHP development. Linux Shared Servers dweb30.pipeten.co.uk (CentOS, Derby) PHP 4.4.9 PHP 5.2.17 dweb16.pipeten.co.uk (CentOS, Derby) PHP … Continue reading →