Google is trying to join all of their services into one main account, often times directly linked to a Google+ account, whether you want one or not.

When signing up for a new Youtube account, your username will show up as the first and last name you entered when you signed up. To change this, follow these directions:

How to change Youtube username to a nickname:

• Click on your name/email in the upper right of the screen to open your account options.

• Under the YouTube section on the left, click YouTube settings

• In the Account Information area, click the Advanced link, found under your email address

• Under Channel Settings, click Rename channel

This is how not to use your first and last name, or a Google+ account as your Youtube username/screen name

 

I have been running the same free version of PHP Link Directory (phpLD) for the last 5+ years without any upgrades or problems.

Recently, out of nowhere, there was about 8 lines of errors above the site reading:

Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in /home/mysiteid/public_html/mydomain.com/libs/adodb/adodb.inc.php on line 3790

I believe this is due to an upgrade to PHP5 by my hosting company, but I am not too sure.

Here is a simple fix that worked for me. I recommend saving a backup of the “adodb.inc.php” file before you make any changes.

Open the file “adodb.inc.php” (mydomain.com/libs/adodb/adodb.inc.php)

Read the error message on your site, it should have an error line number, go to that line number in the source code for “adodb.inc.php”

On that line you should see a portion that says: “=& new”

Take out the “&” and change it to “= new”

Change all “=& new” to “= new” and this should solve the error messages on the header of your site.