Interversal Blog - Plesk, MySQL, SQL Server, PHP and all the web technologies in one site

After a good six months, the new version of Powerlite Lighting is live. Powerlite is a custom lighting solution company based in Leeds UK. They’re good people.

The site’s running out of the Joomla Content Management System, with a whole bunch of modules and components. Good luck Powerlite!

Here’s the standalone version of the Animated Australian Visible Satellite Image

Here’s the standalone version of the Animated Australian Infrared Satellite Image

 And these ones are animated.

After much work, I’ve finally gotten the visible and infrared Australian Satellite Images Animated and on my netvibes page.

The Standalone versions are

Infrared

Visible

3. Netvibe’s Universal Widget API still needs alot of work, yikes. But it’s getting there. I hope it catches on

 To get a better understanding of javascript, I’ve been experimenting with netvibes widgets.

I’ve been using Netvibes for a few years now to keep all my rss feeds together. I always wanted to see the Aussie Satellite map in there, as well as the weather forecast. So now, I can see the Satellite Map, as well as some regional radar maps. I’m adding more as I go.

Thanks to BOM.gov.au for upping all the images in the first place. You can see the widget here Australian Satellite and Radar Images Widget

Ok, I tried installing Web Developer Express 2008. and Visual Studio 2008, and they kept on flunking out.
Web Dev couldn’t install the patch for KB … and Visual Studio couldn’t install Document Explorer 2008 cause it couldn’t find dexplore.exe

Nothing worked. So I downloaded the Windows Installer Cleanup Utility and went nuts on everything related to old Visual Studio files and .Net framework stuff.

And guess what? Visual Studio finally installed - yay!

Ok, here’s the command I use to exclude .zip files from my zips

zip -r *.zip myzipfile directorytozip -x "*.zip"

Working on one’s own sites is much more fun that other peoples. The Internet is huge, and SEO is fascinating. I know where the rest of my life is going to be spent

PS Googling ‘fascinating‘ is fascinating.

Well, I’ve been working with Making Plans Ltd for about 4 years now. They’re nice people, honest, and make good employers.
If you’re ever in the market for a Floor Plan for your home, you know, like the ones they have on posters in Real Estate windows, these are your guys, you sketch it, and fax it to them, and they send back pretty looking floor plans,

Glenn

After buying a 1and1 managed server, and signing up for two years, I discovered that even in the days of MySQL 5.0, these managed servers are set to use MySQL 4.0,
This sucks for alot of reasons, the main one being the pain in the arse it is to migrate other MySQL databases back to 4.0

After stuffing around at the command line using options like
mysqldump -uadmin -p`cat /etc/psa/.psa.shadow` -p –skip-opt –create-options –compatible=mysql40 –add-drop-table –default-character-set=latin1 mydb > db.sql

It turns out that a bug in mysql4.1 screws up the creation of auto_increment when exporting with compatible=mysql40

Basically this means that if I export from mysql4.1 to mysql4.0, I have to manually add the AUTO_INCREMENT field type to each of the primary keys in the table. And since I’ve had alot of databases to move, each with up to 100 tables, I didn’t really fancy the idea.

So, after stuffing around I found a work around.

Export as normal from phpmyAdmin,

Do a find and replace on the SQL
Find: DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1
And Replace With:

That is just delete all occurances of: DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1

Then find: timestamp NOT NULL default CURRENT_TIMESTAMP ON UPDATE CURRENT_TIMESTAMP
And replace with: timestamp NOT NULL

This seems to do the trick

Worked for a Joomla on 4.1 to 4.0 database conversion
Worked for Zen Cart 1.2.6 to mysql 4.1 to 4.0
Worked for b2Evolution mysql 4.1 to 4.0 database conversion
Worked for Mambo 5 mysql 4.1 to 4.0 database conversion
 

I’m always having to look up and figure out all this mysql stuff online. So I’m going to save my favourite commands here. I’ll try to include versions where I can…. Stay tuned.

OK, exporting ( dumping from a MySQL database ) in Plesk

mysqldump -uadmin -p`cat /etc/psa/.psa.shadow` –add-drop-table –add-drop-database  –default-character-set=latin1 mydb > db.sql

This bit `cat /etc/psa/.psa.shadow` grabs your PLESK MySQL password.

Add –add-drop-table if you’ll be exporting over an existing database or tables

Add –add-drop-database if you’ll be exporting over an existing database

mydb is the database you want to export from.

db.sql is the file you want to export to.

To import the file in to a database, connect to MySQL on your server

Go to the directory that has your db.sql file that you’re going to be importing

mysql -uadmin -p`cat /etc/psa/.psa.shadow` -p

Then enter the password

If you’re importing in to a new database:
The type in USE mydatabasename
Where mydatabasename is the name of the database you’re writing over

now type source db.sql;

remember to put the semi colon in there,
You should see a whole lot of
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.01 sec)
Lines, which is fine. Just wait it out and your import should complete all by itself.