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Website Builder Plus Tutorial - How to use Site Builder

Posted on 12/07/08, filed under Hosting Tutorials | 1 Comment

Our Website Builder Plus software is now more popular that ever!

Even though the web builder software is extremely easy to use and designed for beginners / people with little or now experience, we still want to ensure that those of you who want to get the most out of the software…. can!

That’s why we are encouranging anyone who purchases our fantastic Web Site Builder software


How do I query a MySQL database from a PHP script?

Posted on 12/07/08, filed under Hosting Tutorials | No Comments

In todays web hosting tutorial we are going to cover :

How do I query a MySQL database from a PHP script?

Use the following outline to connect and begin querying the MySQL server from within your PHP scripts. Remember if you are a Pixel Internet customer you cannot connect to your databases remotely for security reasons; you can only connect from localhost.

1. Connect to the… Read full story


Setting “register_globals” to ON in PHP

Posted on 29/06/08, filed under Hosting Tutorials | No Comments

You can create your own php.ini file inside whatever sub-directory your script is in. You can then determine the exact behaviour for your PHP scripts yourself.

There’s a lot of documentation on how to use the various configuration features inside php.ini online at .

In this case, to set “register globals” on, you can just create a file called “php.ini” in the subdirectory of your website that the script is in, simply… Read full story


How to create a custom php.ini file

Posted on 29/06/08, filed under Hosting Tutorials | No Comments

There are some variables in the php.ini file that can be overwritten, a common request is how to change the PHP file upload limit.

You can do this by creating a custom php.ini file in the directory you want to use (where your script resides).

Here is an example;

On your computer open a new document in Notepad, inside enter the command;

upload_max_filesize = 5M
post_max_size = 5M

(this example shows the limit being set to… Read full story