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UK Yankee -community website management

Expat community websiteWebThreads has sponsored and maintained the UK Yankee website since its inception in 1999. It is a reputable and busy resource for expat Americans in the UK. It is driven by several integrated PHP content management systems such as Dokuwiki, Nucleus and Simple Machines Forum.

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Kneeguru – Health Support Community

Web Threads has provided technical support and advice to KNEEguru.co.uk for over 5 years. This is a large site with knee condition information and a thriving support community.

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Drupal: mq4 File Attachments Open As Plain Text

A quick fix this morning for a client with a Drupal issue, links to mq4 files were opening as plain text in the browser window instead of presenting a download file prompt.

This is due to the server configuration, apache mime-types. It is usually easily fixed in an .htaccess file.
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Filed under: Development

How to Empty Tables in PhpMyAdmin (MySQL)

Recently I needed to empty the Drupal sessions and cache tables which had grown to some million+ rows and were causing weekly database errors on a busy health community website. In PhpMyAdmin, permissions to empty tables weren’t available.
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Filed under: Website Management

Facebook, For Business and Pleasure

Media has been buzzing with the success of social networks Facebook and Twitter. Information is being exchanged at a viral rate and is influencing the success of businesses and organisations. If you aren’t on Facebook, you might be wondering what’s the point. Myspace, Bebo, blogging, is it all the same? Not quite.

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Filed under: Social Networks