PHP Project files">Finding syntax errors in your PHP Project files

Till posted this lit­tle snip­pet; It’s so use­ful I just had to share it find . \( –name “*.php” –o –name “*.phtml” \) –exec php –l {} \; Just go to your project direc­tory and fire it off, it will help you find those pesky unmatched {}

PHP for Android project (PFA)">PHP for Android project (PFA)

Here is an inter­est­ing project that could prove quite use­ful for us PHP buffs; PHP for Android project (PFA) aims to make PHP devel­op­ment in Android not only pos­si­ble but also fea­si­ble pro­vid­ing tools and doc­u­men­ta­tion. We cur­rently have an APK which pro­vides PHP sup­port to ASE (PhpForAndroid.apk). Iron­tec is the com­pany behind this project. About […]

PHP">11 easy steps for installing Apache ActiveMQ for PHP

Take a peak at Web Devel­oper Juice’s writeup on how to con­fig­ure and use ActiveMQ (Mes­sage Queues), defen­itely worth the read. Apache ActiveMQ is one good option for imple­ment­ing mes­sage queue in your PHP appli­ca­tion. It can be eas­ily installed on your server and it’s web acces­si­ble admin inter­face really makes administrator’s life easy. It can […]

PHP on Windows">Microsoft won’t tell Zend how to build PHP on Windows

Justin writes: It all started with a sim­ple bug encoun­tered while try­ing to get PHP and WCF to play nice. Before you know it I was attempt­ing to com­pile PHP on win­dows myself. That’s when I real­ized how deep the rab­bit hole really goes. via Microsoft won’t tell Zend how to build PHP on Windows.

Bootstrapping Zend_Translate with a LangSelector Plugin

As an update to the method of hav­ing every­thing related to Zend_Translate and Zend_Locale in the Boot­strap, here is an alter­na­tive using an Con­troller Plu­gin that does the grunt work of val­i­dat­ing, select­ing and updat­ing the Zend_Locale, Zend_Registry & Zend_Session using Zend_Session_Namespace. And we are using poedit .po & .mo files as the source as usual.

Deep Integration between Zend Framework and Doctrine 1.2

There’s been a lot of talk online about find­ing the best approach for bring­ing Zend Frame­work and Doc­trine 1.x together. This video is my hum­ble approach of com­bin­ing some of the learn­ing brought about over the last few weeks on Zend­casts, as well as sug­ges­tions from Doc­trine devel­op­ers. The goal of this video is to […]

PHP — phpUnderControl & CruiseControl">Continuous Integration for PHP — phpUnderControl & CruiseControl

Did you know that you can auto­mate unit tests (which is the PHP worlds equalient of com­pi­la­tion checks ).

Set up your devel­op­ment team using local check­outs of the project and have them do local PHPUnit tests, check their changes in and then get Con­tin­u­ous Inte­gra­tion checks done on a cen­tral server using phpUn­der­Con­trol that emails the team with success/fail reports, it’s a good way to work.

Generate Doctrine models/classes that extend a custom record class

When using using Doc­trine 1.2.1 and Zend Frame­work 1.9.x to gen­er­ate classes from Yaml/db each Base class (which includes the table def­i­n­i­tion) extends the Doctrine_Record class.

PHP — Using Amazon EC2 with the Zend Framework">Cloud computing with PHP — Using Amazon EC2 with the Zend Framework

Doug Tid­well is a senior soft­ware engi­neer in IBM’s Emerg­ing Tech­nol­ogy group. He just wrote a two part arti­cle on Mov­ing data into and out of the cloud with the Zend Frame­work and Using vir­tual machines with the Zend Frame­work. Sum­mary: The Zend Frame­work con­tains sev­eral classes that make using cloud-based stor­age ser­vices easy. Part 1 […]