NotesBrewBlogger 2.3.2 is a easy to set up, easy to use, browser-based homebrew logging and calculation suite. It is a PHP/MySQL-based system that provides today's brewer not only a fast and easy way to record their brewing activities, recipes, and awards, but also forum to share their zymurgistic efforts and expertise with the homebrewing community around the world.Unfurl
NotesSabreDAV allows you to easily add WebDAV support to a PHP application. SabreDAV is meant to cover the entire standard, and attempts to allow integration using an easy to understand API. Unfurl
NotesSo you develop PHP 5.3 on a Mac? Mebbe you, like me, are a fan of Symfony2? Then you might have noticed a few deficiencies in the pre-loaded version of PHP 5.3 on your computer. Here’s how to …Unfurl
NotesThis page explains various methods to update feeds with tt-rss and caveats involved. You have to setup one of this methods before you can start using tt-rss properly, otherwise your feeds won't be updated.Unfurl
NotesDirCaster is a PHP script that allows one to very easily start Podcasting MP3 files from their web host. This allows original content creators to easily provide a feed for the Juice Podcast Receiver, jPodder, and other "podcatching" software. The feed is also fully iTunes compliant!Unfurl
NotesBehat was inspired by Ruby's Cucumber project and especially it's syntax part (Gherkin). It tries to be like Cucumber with input (Feature files) and output (console formatters)Unfurl
Notes"Memcached is the de facto standard for caching in dynamic web sites. PHP is the one of the most widely used languages on the web. So, naturally there is lots of interest in using the two together. There are two choices for using memcached with PHP: PECL/memcache and PECL/memcached. Great names huh? But as of this writing there are issues with the two most popular Memcached libraries for PHP. This is a summary of those issues that I hope will help people being hurt by them and may bring about some change."FeedUnfurl
Notes"The following guide will walk you through setting up possibly the fastest way to serve PHP known to man. If there is a faster way, I’ve not yet found it climbing through zillions of blog posts out there on the subject. In this article, we’ll be installing nginx http server, PHP with the PHP-FPM patches, as well as APC. The end result? Pure awesome."Unfurl
Notes"PHP 5's SimpleXML module is one of the the biggest reasons to upgrade to 5. If you're parsing RSS feeds or the results of webservice requests it works beautifully and saves a ton of time. The only problem with it is that it'll only load valid XML. I banged my head against it for way to long before coming up with the following:"Unfurl
Notes"The PHP Thrift extension doesn't compile on Mac OS X, because it's missing byteorder.h.
The attached patch works around this issue, but probably isn't the correct implementation. I imagine that it needs to be integrated into autoconf, but it gets the extension compiling for now."Unfurl
Notes"One saving grace is that they didn’t patent it. I have an email in my inbox from one of the HPHP developers saying he couldn’t talk to me about the compiler because they might patent it. That’s pretty shitty. Thank god they open-sourced it instead [9]. It sounds like it was a bit touch and go for a while."Unfurl
Notes"APC is the Alternative PHP Cache, which is a free, open, and robust framework for caching and optimizing PHP intermediate code. I posted about how to install APC on Linux a couple of days ago, and will now look at the apc.php script which comes with APC and shows information about how much of the cache is being used, what files are being cached, the number of times they've been accessed etc."Unfurl
Notes"The point I am trying to make is we’re getting a little crazy with our architectures. These days, we write PHP just like Java, but it’s not Java. It works completely differently, and we shouldn’t try to force patterns that aren’t necessarily the best fit. You don’t need all that. Just write good code."FeedUnfurl
Notes"In plain English, what developers want to be able to do is be able to design assertions that can accept application models that implement the Resource or Role interface, and be able to apply some dynamic or custom logic to assess whether or not the given role has access to the given resource. ... For the purposes of this example, we’ll take a simple concept: a user needs to be able to only edit their own blog post. The user in this case, would be our applications model for users. The actual class will implement the Zend_Acl_Role_Interface. We will also have a BlogPost model which will serve as the resource in question, thus implementing the Zend_Acl_Resource_Interface"Unfurl
Notes"When it comes to template languages in PHP, many people will tell you that PHP itself is a template language. But even if PHP started its life as a template language, it did not evolve like one in the recent years. As a matter of fact, it doesn't support many features modern template languages should have nowadays"Unfurl
Notes"So, you think PHP is a templating engine? So did I... for a very long time. But recently, I changed my mind. Even if PHP can be used as a templating engine, the syntax is just plain ugly as a template language."Unfurl
Notes"I recently have spent a little time putting together a new WordPress plugin called HookPress. HookPress lets you add webhooks to WordPress, letting you easily develop push notifications or extend WordPress in languages other than PHP."Unfurl
NotesSurprised the code is so short. "Lately, I've been looking for ways to detect faces in photos with PHP. Nowadays, face detection is built in many consumer products (camera obviously, but also Google and iPhoto), and seems to be a pretty common job. So I expected to find many solutions for doing it with PHP. Surprisingly, the only one I could find is OpenCV, an opensource lib that was originally developed by Intel. OpenCV seems to perform well but you need to be able to install it on your server. In my case, I wanted to have a pure PHP solution, so it can work with most hosts."Unfurl
Notes"SpiderMonkey support in PHP comes through PECL's ext/spidermonkey extension, which is maintained by Christophe Robin, and provides an object-oriented API for accessing the SpiderMonkey library. Although this extension is currently in beta, it still allows you to do some fairly interesting things, including registering and using variables, functions and classes from PHP in JavaScript."Unfurl
Notes"CodeIgniter is a web application framework for PHP. It enables developers to build web applications faster, and it offers many helpful code libraries and helpers which speed up tedious tasks in PHP. CodeIgniter is based on a modular design; meaning that you can implement specific libraries at your discretion - which adds to the speed of the framework. This tutorial will attempt to show you the basics of setting up the framework, including how to build a basic hello world application that uses the MVC approach. "Unfurl
NotesI think this whole "abstract the browser away behind my favorite language" thing is kind of batshit insane. The problem is, though, I've yet to think out a well-articulated argument against it and the arguments for seem very compelling. Of course, I also happen to *like* JavaScript. "Only by going the whole hog - fully into Javascript, augmented by Compiler Technology such as GWT and Pyjamas (and more specifically Unity) that allows both the Web Server and the Web Client to be programmed in exactly the same language - can the MVC approach be properly implemented and the user's expectations be satisfied, and thus both the developers' and the user's lives made easier. Gmail is the quintessential example of how this "whole-hog-Javascript" MVC approach can be achieved successfully. "Unfurl
Notes"Take a look at this list with 20 great PHP frameworks and suggest that you prefer or a new link to a framework not included into this list."Unfurl
Notes"Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YARPP) gives you a list of posts and/or pages related to the current entry, introducing the reader to other relevant content on your site."Unfurl
Notes"Start changing one single line of code in an application build on top of Drupal or ezPublish, to name only the two major ones, and you are in trouble. The moment you need something that is not natively supported, you enter the Dark Zone of CMS hell. You are going to spend a lot of money on development. You will never see the end of the tunnel. That is, until someone says, a few years from now, “Do we need all that crap? Let’s build something that fits our needs and that actually works”.Given number of available open-source CMS solutions, building one on your own sounds like a stupid idea. But if your website is 50% content management and 50% something else, you probably need to start with a web application framework like symfony or Django, rather than a CMS. These frameworks provide plugins that do part of the Content Management job already, so creating a CMS today is like assembling Lego bricks to build something that exactly fits your needs."Unfurl
Notes"This class adds CSRF protection to existing PHP applications that make use of PHP's session support for authentication. If you are writing an application from scratch you shouldn't use this; it's designed to protect legacy apps that were not built with CSRF in mind."Unfurl
Notes"As I wrote this blog engine, the need for a commenting system arose and I reflected about a small and simple commenting system with just a flat file JSON store. This is my solution, which can be used on any static page on a server with PHP support."Unfurl
Notes"jQuery-PHP is a PHP library that allows to tie jQerry with PHP most natural way. You don't need to think in terms of transmission, parsing and other boring staff. Now you have a bridge that brings DOM right onto your server :) and you can ealisy manipulate it in jQuerry-style way." This seems like one of the worst ideas - maybe it's just me, but "shortcuts" and other encapsulations of client-side JS within server-side code-generation in PHP / Ruby / Python / Perl / etc seems like one of the worst forms of magical obfuscation there is in webdev. Of course, I also feel the same way about most psuedo-ORM SQL / database abstractions.Unfurl
Notes"Phar archives are similar in concept to Java JAR archives, but are tailored to the needs and to the flexibility of PHP applications. A Phar archive is used to distribute a complete PHP application or library in a single file. Unlike Java's implementation of JAR archives, no external tool is required to process or run a PHP Phar archive."FeedUnfurl
Notes"All data is sent via a set of X-FirePHP-Data response headers. This means that the debugging data will not interfere with the content on your page. Thus FirePHP is ideally suited for AJAX development where clean JSON or XML responses are required."Unfurl
Notes"Using Webgrind and Xdebug, you to tack on ?XDEBUG_PROFILE=true to any URL and view profiling information for that particular URL instantly."FeedEmbedUnfurl
Notes"Hear the story of the evolution of PHP from being a purely procedural language to its current state of a full-fledged object oriented language, from its creator Rasmus Lerdorf."Unfurl
Notes"I’m very proud to announce the release of CodeIgniter 1.6, the kick ass open source web application framework for PHP developers working in the real world."Unfurl
Notes"You can set an HTTP proxy for the XSLT document() function to use (as well as DTD external references) by setting http_proxy in the environment."FeedUnfurl
Notes"Mostly because it lets two groups separate their work: system administration types (including hosting companies) set up the environment, and developer types use the environment, and they don’t have to interact much. "Unfurl
Notes"Could an app like WordPress, easy for users of medium technical knowledge to run and customize, easy for developers to extend, and easy for hosts to provide, be written in Ruby? If so, how?"Unfurl
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