Working with Regex

If you ever have to work with regular expression then I recommend testing your expressions on this website.

http://www.regexr.com/

PHP Upload Limits on GoDaddy PHP5.ini

I developed a health and safety document management website which has been running without a hitch for around a month now. I had intentionally set file size limits to be 10MB and decided I would increase this limit as and when larger documents appear. Today a user was hitting an error with a 17MB document. I made all the changes necessary to my source code and put the change live, only for the user to report back that they received an error. Straight away I tried a 12MB document and it worked, I asked how big the file the user was trying and they told me 17MB. I did some research on the error message.

“Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 67108864 bytes exhausted”

A lot of results for that error message. I managed to find some tutorials on how to resolve the issue on GoDaddy. Unfortunately the information I found is outdated (or at least no longer applicable to hosting package I am on)

The articles suggest creating a php5.ini on the root directory adding the following configuration:

file_uploads = On

post_max_size = 128M

upload_max_filesize = 128M

memory_limit = 128M

However after speaking with GoDaddy support this is no longer correct (at least not for those on the Economy Linux Hosting with cPanel package)

To resolve the issue you must create a .users.ini file. 

Download Office / Visio 2013 offline installer

The network connection at our office is horrible, it’s a long story with very little light at the end of the tunnel. I have purchased a number of copies of Visio 2013, however software these days doesn’t seem to come with an installation CD any more. After registering the product key with Microsoft I was a little miffed to find that the installer they provide you with is only 900KB in size, clearly it was going to download the rest of the application in the background. Not great when I will have to repeat the install several times over.

This took me a while to find but it is possible to download an offline install for your Microsoft Office products.

Browse to office.microsoft.com

Login to your account

Click Install Office

Click install from a disc

Click I want to burn a disc

Click Download

The download file is 2GB in size, I am not sure if this is JUST for Visio or if it includes other Office products that will be filtered by the product key.