Posts Tagged “mysql”

Cannot load mysql extension. Please check your PHP configuration.

A friend recently had a problem configuring a new server. He installed PHP, Apache, MySQL and phpMyAdmin but when he launched it he got the following error: phpMyAdmin – Error Cannot load mysql extension. Please check your PHP configuration. If you’ve installed all of the above more than once you’ll know what is more than [...]

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Simple UTW Performance Boost

The Ultimate Tag Warrior plugin for WordPress is a great plugin. It does the job of handling tags rather well. I’ve noticed many hits from Google searches that go to a tag page instead of a category page of the same name so there’s something there that Google likes. I love it! Christine Davis did [...]

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MySQL: Finding the records in one table that are not in another table

OK, this’ll make users of “proper databases” cringe but because MySQL doesn’t support sub-selects you can’t do the most obvious way of selecting records in one table that aren’t in another. Here’s how it’s done, with a clear explanation of why it works! select po.id from po left join pn on po.id=pn.id where pn.id is [...]

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