Lantean

It seems this is one of the oldest issues of PHP develoment, right?. I’ve developed a PHP website, based on codeigniter framework (and a mysql database), and i ran into a lot of problems with the ñ, not showing up well in google.

Here’s what i’ve done to fix this problem:

1. Set the database collation / columns to utf8_general_ci (by means of phpmyadmin).
2. In codeigniter’s ‘config.php’ file.
   $config['charset'] = 'UTF-8';
3. In codeigniter’s ‘database.php’:
   $db['default']['char_set'] = 'utf8';
   $db['default']['dbcollat'] = 'utf8_general_ci';
4. In the ‘general’ html-rendering, before anything else gets echo’ed (beware, i’m using HTML5.. HTML4 is different):
   <meta charset="UTF-8">
5. And finally… in my .htaccess file:
   AddDefaultCharset UTF-8

I hope this helps. I’ve spent many hours reading… testing… and a couple days waiting for Google’s update!.

Long short story. If you wanna update, say, a plugin, or a theme.. using wordpress, and you get the following error:

SAFE MODE Restriction in effect. The script whose uid is  is not allowed to access /tmp

I’ve got news for you!. It’s caused by the php_safe_mode flag. If you’re on a shared hosting, and you cannot change that flag (or maybe you just don’t want to)… here’s what you need to do:

1. Create a temporary folder, somewhere in your hosting, and set the permissions to 777.
2. Open your wp-config.php file.
3. Add this line: define(‘WP_TEMP_DIR’,’/absolute/path/to-a-tmp-folder/’);

That should do the trick.