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Bluehost wont allow gmail SMTP connections

Posted by Tim on January 12, 2010 in Open Source, PHP

According to bluehost, you cannot send emails through SMTP connections from web applications hosted on bluehost.   They only allow sending through their own SMTP servers. The problem I had was trying to send emails in Magento using GMAIL (Google Apps) using the code from this forum: http://www.magentocommerce.com/boards/viewthread/1073/ The work around is that I setup a [...]

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SimplePie Joomla Proxy Issue

Posted by Tim on June 19, 2009 in Open Source, PHP

The issue I had with a particular joomla site is that I could not load external RSS feeds.   The error was “Could not connect to {server}”.   RSS Feed load failed.   This was caused in the SimplePie.php class around line 6601. Steps to resolve: I enabled the cUrl extension in php.ini (running on a IIS platform) [...]

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Finding PHP Executable without contacting Host Provider

Posted by Tim on March 1, 2009 in PHP

Came across a interesting issue with running a script via a CRON job.   I needed to find out what the path is to the PHP executable.   I could make a educated guess and attempt to try /usr/bin/php, but I find a few ways this could be done. Use the System function and execute the ls [...]

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