I’ve just finished another site release that allows you to specify that invoices are emailed to you along with your order confirmation. The invoices will be in HTML and PDF format. They will be attached to the normal confirmation emails dispensed on purchase.

By default invoices will not be emailed to customers and so you will have to tell us if you do require it.

To do this login to your 34sp.com account and click on ‘invoices’. You should see a check box and button labelled ‘Submit’ at the top of the page. Make sure the check box is ticked and click the ‘Submit’ button.

Once this is done the proceeding purchases will have the invoices attached.

Another addition allows you to view previous invoices in PDF and HTML format. To see this login to your 34SP.com account and click on ‘invoices’. Scroll down until you see a list of your most recent invoices. To the right of this list will be two buttons ‘PDF’ and ‘HTML’. To view your invoice in one of the formats click on the respective button.

If for some reason you need to receive an invoice by email from 34SP.com contact us and quote the invoice number and/or date to receive the email.

The last couple of weeks I have been working on some 34SP.com website upgrades and I am pleased to announce that they are finished. As of the 20^th of September 2005 you will be able to upgrade your standard hosting accounts and store payment information for ease of use.

To upgrade your standard hosting account simply login, select the hosting account you wish to upgrade and click ‘More’. You will now see the details of you hosting account, click ‘upgrade’. You will see a drop down list of all of the available upgrades for your hosting account. Choose the upgrade(s) you require, once you are happy click ‘Basket’ and continue to pay as normal. Alternatively you could click ‘More upgrades >>> ‘ to add further upgrades to your hosting account.

Payment details can be added when you pay. To store payment details when you’re on the card details page tick the box next to ‘Remember my card’. Once you’ve stored your details you can use your Account Management Page to manage them.

PEAR is a collection of code that can be used for many php applications, ranging from database connections to templating systems.

For those using (or those wishing to use) PEAR, the list of available packages on the 34SP servers was updated today. A full list is shown below.

If you wish to take advantage of the PEAR installation on the server, please drop us an email and we can update your account accordingly.

Installed packages:
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Package Version State
Archive_Tar 1.3.1 stable
Console_Getopt 1.2 stable
DB 1.7.6 stable
Date 1.4.3 stable
File 1.2.1 stable
HTML_Common 1.2.1 stable
HTML_QuickForm 3.2.5 stable
HTML_Table 1.5 stable
HTML_Template_Flexy 1.2.2 stable
HTML_Template_IT 1.1.1 stable
HTML_Template_PHPLIB 1.3.1 stable
HTML_Template_Sigma 1.1.3 stable
HTML_TreeMenu 1.2.0 stable
HTTP_Request 1.2.4 stable
Log 1.8.7 stable
Mail 1.1.8 stable
Net_SMTP 1.2.7 stable
Net_Socket 1.0.6 stable
Net_URL 1.0.14 stable
PEAR 1.3.6 stable
PHPUnit 1.3.0 stable
Pager 2.3.3 stable
Pager_Sliding 1.6 stable
PhpDocumentor 1.2.3 stable
XML_Parser 1.2.6 stable
XML_RPC 1.4.0 stable
XML_Tree 1.1 stable

If there are other packages that you feel may benefit yourself and other users please let us know. Please note that we do not install Alpha versions of packages.

For a regularly updated list of packages see http://pear.34sp.com

For full information on PEAR please take a look at their website at http://pear.php.net/