Coffeerings Articles

iPhone Sir? Hmmm... no thanks.

So today (18th Sept. 2007), Apple finally set the UK launch date for the eagerly anticipated cure for world poverty, or as we consumers know it, the 'iPhone'.  There was the familiar build up of press speculation, primarily ...read more

Cron Jobs Email on Completion, Stop it!

A useful function in some cases but if you have mundane scripts running quite often it can get a little annoying.  To prevent the email add the following text to the end of your cron job:>/dev/null 2>&1read more

Consuming Google Analytics using PHP

A while back I posted an article mentioning the possibility of consuming Google Analytics using PHP. The process involved emailing an Analytics report in XML format to a mailbox then use PHP to select the message and parse the X...read more

Changing the Machine/Host Name of a Fedora Box

You can find the hostname of you machine using the command:hostname -fTo temporarily change the hostname issue the command (substituting the NEW_HOST_NAME bit):hostname NEW_HOST_NAMEIf you need...read more

PHP5 and Missing DOM Functions

If you find the PHP5 DOM Functions are not installed as part of the default PHP5 install (which they should be and are - for most installations) perform a couple of yum installs on the php-xml and php-xmlrpc packages. ...read more