Comments for The Back Burner http://www.archetype-it.com/thebackburner Occasional articles about our "back burner" projects, and handy technical tips Mon, 06 Sep 2010 20:08:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 Comment on How to install ODBC on Linux by dtbasemojo http://www.archetype-it.com/thebackburner/2007/05/22/how-to-install-odbc-on-linux/#comment-351 dtbasemojo Thu, 30 Apr 2009 09:25:27 +0000 http://www.archetype-it.com/thebackburner/2007/05/22/how-to-install-odbc-on-linux/#comment-351 Thank you. I figured as it was open source and linix it would be easy to connect from Open Office to a MySQL database... Unfortunately I think throwing Xampp (truly a great product) into the mix confused the setup a bit. First I tried running the 'recommended' JDBC driver. Which I could get to load after a bit of tutorial and install read fu, only to find out that XAMPP security closed the network connection... Searching led to the MySQL docs on exactly this problem, or from what I understood to be some kind of network connection. Which always give me a feeling of " God help ye all who read these docs" Right so back to ODBC. I have worked with this before and I know it works with Open Office, well in Windows (Vista I didn't test) anyway. When I got the WTF (What the fudge error) I knew this probably being caused by XAMPP being installed instead of regular Apache (Having dealt with that before) Changing the odbc.ini changed it right away, and got it working. :-):-) Thank you for writing it up. Did you know you can set the socket in ODBCConfig (in the ODBC Data Source Administrator) as well? When setting up a new odbc you can do it in all one shot. This was typically one of those once ya know how to do the problems. Thank you again for writing it up, it saved me a lot of time. Thank you.

I figured as it was open source and linix it would be easy to connect from Open Office to a MySQL database…

Unfortunately I think throwing Xampp (truly a great product) into the mix confused the setup a bit.

First I tried running the ‘recommended’ JDBC driver. Which I could get to load after a bit of tutorial and install read fu, only to find out that XAMPP security closed the network connection… Searching led to the MySQL docs on exactly this problem, or from what I understood to be some kind of network connection. Which always give me a feeling of ” God help ye all who read these docs”

Right so back to ODBC. I have worked with this before and I know it works with Open Office, well in Windows (Vista I didn’t test) anyway. When I
got the WTF (What the fudge error) I knew this probably being caused by XAMPP being installed instead of regular Apache (Having dealt with that before)

Changing the odbc.ini changed it right away, and got it working. :-):-) Thank you for writing it up.

Did you know you can set the socket in ODBCConfig (in the ODBC Data Source Administrator) as well? When setting up a new odbc you can do it in all one shot.

This was typically one of those once ya know how to do the problems.

Thank you again for writing it up, it saved me a lot of time.

]]> Comment on Downright Slippery Time by The Back Burner » PHP: is it a leap year? http://www.archetype-it.com/thebackburner/2007/09/20/downright-slippery-time/#comment-324 The Back Burner » PHP: is it a leap year? Thu, 29 Jan 2009 10:39:06 +0000 http://www.archetype-it.com/thebackburner/2007/09/20/downright-slippery-time/#comment-324 [...] written about date manipulation in PHP before. There are some truly horrible hacks out there. Today I needed to detect whether a [...] […] written about date manipulation in PHP before. There are some truly horrible hacks out there. Today I needed to detect whether a […]

]]> Comment on Intermediate PHP and MySQL course by The Back Burner » Chocs To Go is here! http://www.archetype-it.com/thebackburner/2008/01/24/intermediate-php-and-mysql-course/#comment-108 The Back Burner » Chocs To Go is here! Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:33:08 +0000 http://www.archetype-it.com/thebackburner/2008/01/24/intermediate-php-and-mysql-course/#comment-108 [...] goal for students on the intermediate PHP and MySQL course that I’m running for IWA/HWG is to create a working shopping cart. The course starts in only [...] […] goal for students on the intermediate PHP and MySQL course that I’m running for IWA/HWG is to create a working shopping cart. The course starts in only […]

]]> Comment on Intermediate PHP and MySQL course by Sam Eger http://www.archetype-it.com/thebackburner/2008/01/24/intermediate-php-and-mysql-course/#comment-57 Sam Eger Fri, 01 Feb 2008 17:48:15 +0000 http://www.archetype-it.com/thebackburner/2008/01/24/intermediate-php-and-mysql-course/#comment-57 That is cool that you are going to teach this class, I have been wanting to take a php/mysql class but wanted one where I can actually build a cart. Will see if I can register for this class. Thanks, Sam That is cool that you are going to teach this class, I have been wanting to take a php/mysql class but wanted one where I can actually build a cart. Will see if I can register for this class.

Thanks,
Sam

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