If you’re looking to have anyone log into your website, PHP is a great way to code this yourself securely. In this post, I’ll take you through creating a basic user authentication system using PHP. To keep things simple initially, I’ll store the user information (username and password) in the script. Once you’ve got this […]
Having struggled to find one myself, this is a genuine review from a real Hostinger customer. As at 17th November 2019, BeachyUK.com is now on the Hostinger Premium Web Hosting package. In November 2019, I decided BeachyUK.com needed to move off free/near-free web hosting. Site performance had been slow, and free hosts kept disabling the […]
Whether you have a blog, business card or e-commerce website, getting the basics right can make sure your site is secure, functional and search engines friendly. This ensures you get a natural flow of traffic, with minimal effort and cost. Whilst this article is focused on cost-free security and search engine optimisation tips, it would […]
As a keen YouTuber, I regularly embed my videos in this site. Sometimes it’s relevant to start the embedded video at a specific time, to take the viewer to the relevant point in the video. It’s simple to do… so if you find yourself needing to embed a YouTube video that starts at a specific […]
Having just spent a frustrating hour trying to trace the reason why my websites were no longer displaying Google Adsense ads, I thought I’d share in-case others have the same issue. The issue I had was that ads weren’t displaying at all, or so I thought. The odd thing was that my revenue suggested some […]
Another day, another issue to resolve… this time it was the turn of phpBB to shed some of the remaining hair from my head. I have however now got to the bottom of this, so this is another post aimed at helping others hindered by this irritating issue. It seems that the phpBB update changed […]
A prospective client contacted me yesterday asking whether it was possible to host more than one domain against a BeachyUK hosting package. The answer is yes… and having had a similar question before, I thought it was worth adding a post on this to explain how you can do this using cPanel Addon domains.
Obviously I like to keep WordPress up-to-date to ensure it has the latest security patches, and that any new features, or improvements are available to myself, and you lovely readers! Well of late I’ve had issues upgrading WordPress. I’ve tried the automatic upgrade on several occasions, but it continues to give me an “Installation Failed” […]
Well I thought I would help others who may have been facing the same problems as me. When visiting my wordpress blog several errors appeared at the top of the website stating headers have already been sent out. This made it impossible to login to the backend of my blog. After searching google for answers […]
Hi Guys, Just a really quick post for anyone who wants to increase the Product Name length in Virtuemart. Go to phpMyAdmin Locate the table jos_vm_product Find the field product_name (ot at the top of the table like you would expect!) Then click change (the second button from the left) Change Length/Values to the number […]