call to undefined function mssql_connect()

When you Google this you mostly get the tip that you should put the file ntwdblib.dll in the /ext folder. I have a vague memory that this helped me the last time i had this problem but this time that didn’t help. I also noticed that MSSQL was not loaded when i run phpinfo().

Finally I found this post on the IIS forum that recommended me to run the command.

php-cgi.exe -v

When I did this I got an error message telling me that “This program cannot start because msvcr71dll is missing from your computer”. I then downloaded this dll file, put it in my C:\Windows\SysWOW64 (/system32 if you are on 32 bit). I also recycled my application on IIS and then everything worked. Hallelulja!

I have no idea if it’s related but i used “Web platform installer” to install PHP.

$(document).ready(function () {
 $(".sub-menu").hide();
 $(".current_page_item .sub-menu, .current_page_parent .sub-menu").show();
 $(".sub-menu li").after("<li class='sub-menu-seperator'>|</li>");
});

This will hide all sub-menus, and then if a parent happens to have the class .current_page_item we show the sub-menu. My god i love jQuery.

Update:

As sushicodeur suggest you could of course do this only with CSS, it’s basically the same thing.

.sub-menu { display: none; }
.current_page_item .sub-menu, .current_page_parent .sub-menu { display: block; }

1. Issues with permissions for PHP and WordPress. Apparently with PHP you must give your IIS_IUSRS (What is the diffrence between IIS_IUSRS and IUSR btw?)  user permission to both your temp direct (upload_tmp_dir) and your regular upload directory in WordPress (\wp-content\uploads)
2. Remember to SAVE YOUR POST AS A DRAFT (or publish it of course) before uploading. I just spent the last ½ hour trying to upload images but all i got was “403 Access Denied”. When i saved the post everything worked perfectly.

Well .. this is the issues i found so far. Will update this post if i find anything else.

Links: WordPress File Uploads With IIS, Issue with image upload .. and more

It turns out that Dean’s Permalinks Migration plugin stopped working after WordPress 2.7 (i assume at least, i didn’t do any research about it). You use Dean’s Permalinks Migration plugin to do a 301 (SEO friendly) redirect from your old permalink structure to a new one.

I used /year/month/day/post-title before but i wanted to change to just /post-title and Dean’s Permalinks Migration plugin worked great. But as i said before it stopped worked after we installed WordPress 2.7.

The solution i found was to install another plugin called Redirection that is used to do all sort of redirects in WordPress. After i installed the plugin i just added a regular expression redirect like this.

This means something like redirect any url that looks like /digits/digits/digits/text to /text. The $4 means to grab the text from the last * in the source URL.

I posted the question on both wordpress and amazon forums but haven’t got any replies. Well .. maybe i did not explain my problem good or nobody else is interested in this.

So i figured i had to take care of this myself. And as i said. I’m a total newbie in both PHP and WordPress plugins so my plugin is probably really really stupid and i would be happy if somebody could send suggestions how to make it better. But it works.

How does it work?

You just add

[S3 bucket=yourbucket text=your link text]the_object_name.txt[/S3]

to your post or page and it will generate a expiring urls that no leecher can link to. If you don’t supply and link text it will not generate a link and just print the URL. I use the same bucket names as URL’s (like netplay.whoa.nu) and if you use Amazon standard urls you must change this.

Download: Amazon S3 URL Generator

Thanks to this guy for the PHP script i based this on.