PHP Version of CFDump

Thu, 20 Sep 2007 08:33:00-0400

I needed to debug a php script today. I needed to see the output of some queries. My first thought was cfdump. If I only had a way to do cfdumps in PHP. Well a quick search in Blingo revealed 3900 results. The first result is the only one I needed. dBug. It's exactly what I needed and best of all it is free. It is also very easy to use:


include_once("dBug.php");
new dBug($myVariable);

It can't get much easier than that.

phpBB Password Changing

Fri, 25 May 2007 12:05:00-0400

Before CFMBB our company used the phpbb if our clients needed a forum. Getting the passwords for the admin area was always a pain. The client would forget their password and I would have to go in, change the email address for the administrator account and go through the reset process. A while ago I found a better way to do this and forgot to mention it. Simply go into your mysql client or command line and run this query:


Select md5('NewPassword');

Then you can cut and past the results into the password section in the database if you are using a gui or you could do something like this:


update phpbb_users set user_password = md5('NewPassword') where username='randy';

I am not sure if this will work in the V3 of phpbb or not. It works in the latest version of 2.x

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PHP Version of CFDump

phpBB Password Changing