GEEK: Postalicious, dreamhost, and the case of the stripos function

[archerships]

If you’re using the Postalicious plugin with PHP4.x, you will get the following error:

To fix it, change the following line from this:

if(stripos($neop_del_tagfilter,$t) !== FALSE) {

to this:

if(strpos($neop_del_tagfilter,$t) !== FALSE) {

…and it should work. stripos apparently only works with PHP 5.x, and Dreamhost, my hosting company is using PHP 4.x.

Note that strpos(), and its case-insensitive sibling stripos(), returns the index of the first occurrence of a substring within a string. The function appears to be used in the code that handles tags, so tag handling may be affected by this change.

Original: craschworks - comments

Comments

[sicarii.livejournal.com]

Since you bring up Dreamhost and Wordpress, I have a question for you. I currently have a Wordpress blog that I want to have tied to a non-wordpress unique stand alone domain. However, I'm torn between purchasing the domain through a registrar that provides some whois privacy protection (e.g. GoDaddy) and hosting it on my current plan with Pair, and registering it through Wordpress without privacy protections and having them do their little domain mapping dance. If I go through Wordpress, I don't get email functionality, but the Wordpress blog stuff is all figured out. If I set it up at Pair, I've got to figure out setting up a Wordpress blog and migrating all my blog.wordpress.com stuff over. Let's throw a third wrench into the mix: I've heard good things about Dreamhost, and I've considered moving all my hosting over there as well.

Any thoughts?

[crasch.livejournal.com]

I'm registered with GoDaddy and hosted with Dreamhost. I just ported my LJ to the Wordpress blog last weekend, and so far, I've been happy with them. They also gave me an extra 3 months when I told them that I had not had time to use their service after I signed up.

I've since heard bad things about GoDaddy, though I've not had any problems with them myself.

Do you care about email functionalty? Can you install your own plugins with a Wordpress.com hosted blog? If you don't care about email, and you can install your own plugins, and you only need change the domain to switch, then I would say stay with Wordpress.com. Otherwise, I would host it at Pair or Dreamhost. I don't know much about Pair personally, but the buzz I've heard is that they're a decent hosting provider.

It was very easy to set up a Dreamhost Wordpress blog--they have a one-click install. It was quite a bit more difficult to import my LJ.

[sicarii.livejournal.com]

GoDaddy isn't that bad.. trust me. I deal with worse on a daily basis. I'd rather have a domain specific email address for a contact email address instead of the Gmail account I'm using for that blog. I have all these wonderful assorted expert technical skills; however, when it comes to website design or setup for myself, I'm lil' miss novice.