Kong Technology

My job involves a certain amount of programming and sometimes when the odd strikes a little tiny bit of web design. Today, a friend called up and asked me to check his website which shows “FATAL ERROR: register_globals is disabled in php.ini, please enable it!” error message on his OSCommerce powered storefront. That happens all of a sudden according to him…

I told him not to panic as the solution is pretty simple.

Do a .htaccess file and put the following line in it. Upload it to the server and all should be well again.

php_value register_globals 1

That blardy friend didn’t know how to do it and I have to help him with that. Helped him and his is all smiles again!

Just want to put here to share with you all should you run into the same problem. I think the likely cause is his server setting has somehow changed, perhaps by the hosting company who decided to turn off register_global for security reasons. 🙂

The tongue twisting Scalable Inman Flash Replacement may sound alien to you and me, but this may be something worth looking into and trying especially for web developers. This is a new technology that can beautify your simple and boring looking text on web pages, such as those on this example sIFR page.

Look at the smooth titles and headings which are next to impossible to do if not using images before sIFR is introduced. Now with sIFR, all these beautiful and smooth looking titles is as easy as inserting a few lines of extra codes. Isn’t it?

Well, slightly more than that actually. The implementation can be as fast as 10 minutes for experienced web developers and up to ah hour for a newbie. Anyway, I am sure detailed explanation on sIFR wiki could help you get started straight away!

sIFR allows website headings, pull-quotes and other elements to be styled in whatever font the designer chooses – be that Foundry Monoline, Gill Sans, Impact, Frutiger or any other font – without the user having it installed on their machine.

Good luck!