As GoDaddy does not provide scripting support, we were left with attempting to configure our htaccess files such that they would actually work with the 4GH hosting. We were finally able to find the proper configuration and would like to share our findings with anyone who may be experiencing the same issue:


Options FollowSymLinks
Options -MultiViews
RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php


1. sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces
2. Set the following in the file:
   auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.1.10
netmask 255.255.255.0
network 192.168.1.0
broadcast 192.168.1.255
gateway 192.168.2.1

3. Restart networking
   sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart

Set DHCP

1. sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces
2. Set the following in the file:
   auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
3. Restart networking
   sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart

Assuming the MySQL table appears as follows:

+--------------+
|         code |
+--------------+
| Hello World! |
+--------------+

This can be displayed in the browser by using the following PHP code:

<?php echo $row_table['code']; ?>

Which will appear in the browser as follows: “Hello World!”

However, if the table contains mixed, PHP and HTML content, as follows:

+-----------------------------------------------------+
|                                                code |
+-----------------------------------------------------+
| <p>My PHP script: <?php echo 'Hello World'; ?>.</p> |
+-----------------------------------------------------+

This can be displayed by using the following PHP code:

<?php eval('?>'.$row_table['code'].'<?php '); ?>

The browser will display “My PHP script: Hello World.”

This essentially tells the web server to execute the PHP code between the PHP tags and print the output along with the rest of the string not between the PHP tags.

If however, the MySQL field is storing only PHP code as follows:

+------------------------------------+
|                               code |
+------------------------------------+
| echo 'Three plus five is: '.3 + 5; |
+------------------------------------+

The eval() function may be used as follows:

<?php eval($row_table['code']); ?>

The browser would display “Three plus five is: 8″

Omega Fraternal still has the ability to manage your main distribution list as well as auto-joining new members to the default list. For those discretionary lists however, membership administrators can specify which distribution lists each member is a subscriber to.

From the front-end interface, members can view all of the distribution lists the Chapter utilizes and who is a subscriber to each list.

Just as before, when a membership manager or a member updates an email address, that changes is automatically rippled and reflected throughout all of the distribution lists.

We’re really excited about this release because this is just another small step in making Omega Fraternal the premier fraternity and sorority management system.

//Twitter Feed
function twitter_feed($username, $rss) {
  $hostname_connection = "db_hostname";
  $database_connection = "db_database";
  $username_connection = "db_username";
  $password_connection = "db_password";
  $connection = mysql_pconnect($hostname_connection, $username_connection, $password_connection) or die(mysql_error());
  
  $twitter_feed = '<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="content_twitter" valign="baseline"><a href="http://twitter.com/'.$username.'" target="_blank"><img src="twitter-follow-me.png" alt="Twitter" border="0" align="right"></a>';
  
  $feedURL = $rss;
  $doc = new DOMDocument();
  if($doc->load($feedURL)) {
    $arrFeeds = array();
    foreach ($doc->getElementsByTagName('item') as $node) {
      $itemRSS = array ( 
        'title' => $node->getElementsByTagName('title')->item(0)->nodeValue,
        'pubDate' => $node->getElementsByTagName('pubDate')->item(0)->nodeValue
      );
      array_push($arrFeeds, $itemRSS);
    }
    
    $limit = 5;
    for($x=0; $x<$limit; $x++) {
      $title = str_replace('bavotasan: ', '', $arrFeeds[$x]['title']);
      $string = ereg_replace("[[:alpha:]]+://[^<>[:space:]]+[[:alnum:]/]","<a class=\"twitter_link\" href=\"\\0\" target=\"_blank\">\\0</a>", $title); 
      $pattern = '/[#|@][^\s]*/';
      preg_match_all($pattern, $string, $matches);    
      
      foreach($matches[0] as $keyword) {
        $keyword = str_replace(")", "", $keyword);
        $link = str_replace("#", "%23", $keyword);
        $link = str_replace("@", "", $keyword);
        if(strstr($keyword, "@")) {
          $search = '<a href="http://twitter.com/'.$link.'" target="_blank">'.$keyword.'</a>';
        }
        else {
          $link = urlencode($link);
          $search = '<a href="http://twitter.com/#search?q='.$link.'" target="_blank">'.$keyword.'</a>';
        }
        $string = str_replace($keyword, $search, $string);
      }
      $length = strlen($string);
      $string = substr($string, 15, $length);
      $twitter_feed .= '<a href="http://twitter.com/'.$username.'" target="_blank">@'.$username.'</a>: '.$string.'<div class="twitter_time">'.twitter_time($arrFeeds[$x]['pubDate']).' via Twitter</div><br />';
    }
    
    $twitter_feed .= '</td></tr><tr><td align="right"><a href="http://twitter.com/'.$username.'" target="_blank">..::Follow Us!</a></td></tr></table>';
    
    $updateSQL = sprintf('UPDATE twitter SET details="'.$twitter_feed.'" WHERE account="'.$username.'"');

    mysql_select_db($database_connection, $connection);
    mysql_query($updateSQL, $connection) or die(mysql_error());
  }
  
  else {
    mysql_select_db($database_connection, $connection);
    $query_twitter = sprintf('SELECT * FROM twitter WHERE account = "'.$username.'"');
    $twitter = mysql_query($query_twitter, $connection) or die(mysql_error());
    $row_twitter = mysql_fetch_assoc($twitter);
    $totalRows_twitter = mysql_num_rows($twitter);
    
    $twitter_feed = $row_twitter['details'];
  }
  
  return $twitter_feed;
}

The twitter_time() function takes the RSS time and converts it to human readable current server time.

//Twitter Time
function twitter_time($rss_time) {
  $time = date('Hm', strtotime($rss_time));
  $date = date('m/d/Y', strtotime($rss_time));
  
  if($date == system_date()) {
    if(system_time() - $time < 60) {
      $time_result = system_time() - $time;
      if($time_result <= 1) {$time_display = 'about a minute ago';}
      else {$time_display = $time_result.' minutes ago';}
    }
    else {
      $time_result = round(((system_time() - $time) / 60), 0);
      if($time_result == 1) {$time_display = 'about '.$time_result.' hour ago';}
      else {$time_display = 'about '.$time_result.' hours ago';}
    }
  }
  else {
    $time_result = date_difference($date, system_date());
    if($time_result == 1) {$time_display = $time_result.' day ago';}
    else {$time_display = $time_result.' days ago';}

    if($time_result > 7) {
      $date_explode = explode('/', $date);
      if($date_explode[2] == date('Y')) {
        $time = date('g:i A', strtotime($time));
        $date = date('M jS', mktime('00', '00', '00', $date_explode[0], $date_explode[1], $date_explode[2]));
        $time_display = $time.' '.$date;
      }
      else {
        $time = date('g:i A', strtotime($time));
        $date = date('M jS, Y', mktime('00', '00', '00', $date_explode[0], $date_explode[1], $date_explode[2]));
        $time_display = $time.' '.$date;
      }
    }
  }
  
  return $time_display;
}

Usage:

echo twitter_feed('your Twitter username', 'the URL to your Twitter RSS feed page');