update: qdpm supports gantt charts from version 5.5

Here is what I found:

1. Clockingi.com, http://www.clockingit.com/  has nice graphical reports, gantt charts and svn support

2. Codeni, http://www.codendi.com from XEROX, supports svn/cvs repository browsing and gantt charts, seems a complex and mature product

3. Collabtive, http://collabtive.o-dyn.de/, it’s a simple, lightweight project management too, useful for a very small team or a freelancer

4. project-open, http://www.project-open.org/

5. endeavour, http://endeavour-mgmt.sourceforge.net, you can check it’s features here: http://endeavour-mgmt.sourceforge.net/features1.html

6. Redmine, http://www.redmine.org/, gantt charts, integrations with SVN, CVS, Mercurial, etc.. written in Ruby on Rails

so first step is adding what we need before the </head>:

<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.validate.pack.js">

now just after the above code we add our regex method:

<script type="text/javascript">
$.validator.addMethod(
 "regex",
 function(value, element, regexp) {
 var check = false;
 var re = new RegExp(regexp);
 return this.optional(element) || re.test(value);
 },
 "Please check your input"
);
</script>

and the final thing is ading the validation we need – you can use php to add them from the database for instance:

<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function(){
$("#myFieldId").rules("add", {regex: "^(0|[1-9][0-9]*|[1-9][0-9]{0,2}(,[0-9]{3,3})*)$"});
})
</script>

After a lot of headaches and a cofee I manage to detect what was wrong:
Presta uses in the email class a variable $templateVars
this was like:

$templateVars = array(
‘{date_facturare}’ =>
‘Nume Firma: ‘.$invoice->company.’<br>’.
‘Cod fiscal: ‘.$invoice->tax_code.’<br>’.
‘Registrul Comertului: ‘.$invoice->reg_data.’<br>’.
‘IBAN: ‘.$customer->iban.’<br>’,
‘CNP: ‘.$invoice->cnp.’<br>’,
‘{firstname}’ => $customer->firstname,
‘{lastname}’ => $customer->lastname, …

However the problem was because of a , instead of .
'IBAN: '.$customer->iban.'<br>',
should have been:
'IBAN: '.$customer->iban.'<br>'.

Because of the wrong “,”, $templateVars[0] was taking a long value and apparently Swift Mailer was appending it to the header date of the email hence the error with the overlength date field.

In the javascript error console I noticed the error:
JsController could not be found

The problem was that I thought cake will include the above js files automatically from it’s core libraries. Of course it doesn’t so to solve the problem just download prototype.js and scriptaculous.js and place them in the js directory inside webroot

That’s it!

Today I needed to move some sites to a different server.  A wordpress and an old oscommerce. The server was a windows server from godaddy – the hosting was a shared one

After setting up the database and the files I run into this error:

500 Internal Server Error

It’s a general server error that can be debugged only if you have access to the IIS error logs or the errors are displaying directly on the html page (which is not the case with godaddy shared hosting)

After some debugging I’ve noticed that the error was triggered by various reasons that personally I thought it can’t trigger this kind of error, like usage of $HTTP_SERVER_VARS (because register_long_arrays was disabled)

Anyway editing the php5.ini from server root did the trick:

register_globals = on (for the old and dying friend called oscommerce)
register_long_arrays = on (for the same old friend)
short_open_tag = on
log_errors = off (apparently the 500 error appears if the log file can’t be found or it’s not writable)

and other settings that are not directly related with this problem

Recently I took care of a client that had a windows hosting package and needed a script setup that required custom modifications to php.ini.

I’ve placed php5.ini to root web directory (for godaddy if you have php5 installed, php5.ini is required otherwise php.ini) the custom settings were in effect and guess what? mysql wasn’t working anymore:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function mysql_connect() in xxxxxxxx

Solution is to set up a complete php.ini file (you can take it from your computer) from which settings like upload_tmp_dir should be set up from the original php.ini

Of course how the heck you can read the original php.ini? You don’t need to, just create a a test.php and place  phpinfo(); there and you should be able to read all the variables that required path alterations to fit the server.

Questions? Please let me know

in your css file:
p {
font-family: ‘Custom-Font’, verdana, arial;
}

for safari and mozilla browsers:
@font-face{
font-family:’Custom-Font’;
src: url(‘Custom-Font.otf’) format(‘opentype’);
}

for IE:
add this to your html page (the css will be visible only to IE users):

<!–[if IE]>
<style type=”text/css” media=”screen”>
@font-face{ font-family:’Custom-Font’; src: url(‘Custom-Font.eot’); }
</style>
<!–[endif]–>
Note: in order to create an eot (Embedded Open Type) file, use the WEFT tool from Microsoft