I visited my forum this morning and was getting a peculiar error: General Error SQL Error [ mysql4 ] Table 'phpbb_sessions' is marked as crashed and should be repaired [1194] It then goes on to describe the SQL query that it tried to run and shows some of the function calls that led up to the error. Fortunately, this is a fairly easy error to resolve. What do you do when … [Read more...]
An MP3 Player for Inline MP3 Attachments in phpBB3
phpBB has some really neat features for file attachments that you might use automatically with a post. For example, if you upload an image and hit the button "Place Inline", some BBcode will be added to the text box and when you preview or submit your post the image will be rendered inside of the post instead of just a link to download the image. Similarly, if you upload a .wma … [Read more...]
Simple Tip: Support Your Favorite Sites
Money makes the world go round as well as the World Wide Web. The revenue generating aspects of the Internet is very apparent, they practically pop-up (or pop-under) at you, but it doesn't always click with people when they are browsing a website how ads and other means are related to being able to provide content. Unfortunately, there are some up-front costs with running a … [Read more...]
Website Uptime Monitoring Services
Being a webmaster, you want to keep tabs on your website at all time. If something goes down, you want to be able to fix the problem or alert those that can. You also want to keep tabs on your hosting. If they're promising 99.9% uptime, you want to make sure that's happening and you're getting what you pay for. A website monitor can help with that, but most of the ones I have … [Read more...]
URLMetrix – Site stats in one place
I've previously covered the Popuri.us site along with a handful of other webmaster tools which performs a look up of a particular site across a wide variety of tools. While Popuri.us is nice, I found it to be a little inaccurate and slow. Since then, I've found a replacement for Popuri.us that seems to be quite a bit improved while still providing the same basic service with … [Read more...]