I recently switched my sites to Media Temple and I think for the most part it’s been a pretty successful experience.  All four of my main sites (brandonquintana.com, brandonquintanaconsulting.com, lightenment.com, and webdevtwopointzero.com) have all been transfered and after some tweaking and fine tuning I think they are running pretty well.

Media Temple offers a great hosting package which allows you to host up to 100 sites on one account.  My sites are relatively small so I think the allocated bandwidth of 1TB a month will be more than enough for me.  On top of the typical PHP/MySQL setup, other nice features include SFTP connectivity and the ability to run Subversion.  Their hosting control panel is laid out well and easy to use.  Tech support issues are resolved in a timely manner.  As of right now, I’m a happy customer.

If you are looking for a hosting provider, Media Temple is worth a shot and if you are interested in having me host your site, I would be more than happy to work some arrangements with you.

PHP Hacks has a tutorial using the PEAR SOAP module of PHP to pull data for use on your site. There are many other ways of doing similar things a lot of which deal with RSS feeds since they have become so popular, but this tutorial does a pretty good job of explaining how to use SOAP with Google’s web services. Read the rest of this entry »

There’s a pretty cool PHP 5 tool that converts HTML to PDF called dompdf. So what do you need to run this app? Well first you will need to download dompdf from Digital Junkies website. Your server needs to be running PHP 5 with the DOM extension enabled. There is also an option of installing additional fonts. Read the installation documentation to find out how to do this. Read the rest of this entry »