Problem description:Right after installing PMA, accessing it in Firefox shows a blank page with no output at all. In IE you can see a 500 error (Internal Server Error). Turn on error reporting and you find this: Warning: require_once(./libraries/common.inc.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in ***\mousebomb\pma\index.php on line 35 Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required ‘./libraries/common.inc.php’ (include_path=’.;C:\php5\pear’) in ***\mousebomb\pma\index.php on line 35 And yet the file really does exist, and IUSR (the IIS anonymous access user) has permission on it.

Problem description:At the company I use Zend Studio for Eclipse Professional Edition to write PHP projects. It’s a great piece of software, but it still has plenty of bugs. This morning it suddenly refused to start — it got stuck on loading org.eclipse.php.core and the progress bar never moved again. I tried reinstalling over the existing installation and it still didn’t work, which left me baffled. Was I going to be stuck at loading org.eclipse.php.core forever?

Today I hit an error in the PDO transaction-handling part: Fatal error: Uncaught exception ‘PDOException’ with message ‘There is no active transaction’ in /data/www/web.passport/pay/classes/class.Mydb.php:145 Stack trace: #0 /data/www/web.passport/pay/classes/class.Mydb.php(145): PDO->rollBack() #1 /data/www/web.passport/pay/yeepayOrder.php(138): Mydb->transaction(Array) #2 {main} thrown in /data/www/web.passport/pay/classes/class.Mydb.php on line 145 Looking through the error log I saw:

Based on the requirements FL鱼SH laid out originally, I’ve been tinkering with this for over a month, and the e-magazine publishing platform’s basic functionality is OK — there’s still a lot of grap...

I’m never one to back down from wrestling with the most bizarre problems—let’s see who comes out on top. It’s been ages since I hit an obstacle while coding, yet today I ran into a little snag—XML generated by PHP came out as garbled text when fetched with FLASH. After some digging I finally solved it. Recording it here, and also jotting down the general solution. If you also run into XML <-> FLASH garbled text, here’s a quick reference: 1. When you’re certain the XML is absolutely fine:First, FLASH reading XML and getting garbled text involves the static property System.useCodepage. Official description: “A Boolean value that tells Flash Player which code page to use to interpret external text files.” Defaults to false.

I’m not doing .net for now — I’ve gotten interested in PHP, so I’m learning PHP while working on it. There are a shocking number of baffling things in the beginner stage; good thing I was mentally prepared. Last night I ran into a problem: in PHP, session_start() always threw an error: Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: Cannot send session cache limiter - headers already sent (output started at D:wwwrootEZineTest.php:1) in D:wwwrootEZineTest.php on line 1 I searched all over the web and found three explanations and fixes for it: