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How To Increase or Change the File Upload Size in the PHP ini file for Wordpress
You need to find which configuration ini file has been loaded by PHP. The easiest way to do this is to run the phpinfo() function from the command line. php -r "phpinfo(); " | grep -i "loaded configuration file" You should see something like...
Written by Sean Behan on 08/24/2013
Roll Your Own Session Based Flash Messaging w/ Sinatra
Session based flash messages are fairly common in web apps. They work well when you have a temporary status to report back to the user, such as successfully saving a form. If you use Rails it comes with the Framework. If you are using Sinatra there ar...
Written by Sean Behan on 11/01/2013
Moodle's Most Important Function Gets No Attention
Arguably the most important function in the Moodle API, is the create_course function. One would think... after all Moodle is an LMS. Courses are the bread and butter for course management platforms, right? Taking a look at the function in the course/lib....
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Scope Routes/URLs By Username (like Twitter) in Your Rails Application
There are a few things that need to be taken care of before you can get this to work. The first thing (although, any of the following steps can be done in any order) to take care of involves your User model. You need to override the to_param method, so th...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
How to Use the Ls Command on Linux or Mac OS X to Sort Files based on Second in the Timestamp
Here is the one liner. ls -lhtTr It will output something like total 24152 -rw-rw-r-- 1 sean staff 1.0M May 4 14:31:42 2019 4c2caf52cb084ea39a6a65a0e68ee382 -rw-rw-r-- 1 sean staff 1.0M May 4 14:31:44 2019 76eeeea5d...
Written by Sean Behan on 05/04/2019