I am profiling too!
Earlier this year (march 2007) I went to the PHP Quebec Conference in Montreal where I met Rasmus Lerdorf. He gave a very interesting presentation where he talked about various things, including...
View ArticleUnder used resources - Get all the answers
In any development shop with more than one developer, there is always at least one developer that is THE reference for the project/platform/framework/cms that most developers go to with questions.Let's...
View ArticleWatching a file on disk
Paul Reinheimer wrote an article on a bug he was trying to solve.He wrote: Something I would love to have: An application that watched a file on disk, reporting all versions of the file over time. tail...
View ArticleDetecting mod_rewrite using PHP
The following post is about a solution to the problem of detecting if mod_rewrite is enabled or not. I worked on a project where CS-CART was used and after it was installed, it was complaining that the...
View ArticleSelenium and popups.
I wanted to write a selenium test script to validate calculation done in a page to make sure they match those of another page. I used the store* functions to grab the values from the source. My problem...
View ArticleReading book: Zend Framework 1.8 Web Application Development
I am currently working on a PHP project which involves creating web services with Zend Framework. I started reading the book "Zend Framework 1.8 Web Application Development" and I plan on doing a...
View ArticleIndentation: Tabs vs. Spaces
This is one of these archaic question.Short answer: Spaces, and only spaces.Long answer:Origins The tab key on the keyboard seem to have first been introduced with typewriters and then with computers....
View Articlearray_unique returns NULL
I am dealing with legacy code written by another team and someone asked me why his images were not showing up...Took me an hour to dig that one out.Simply because the optional second parameter to...
View ArticleInstall pear without network (no internet access/offline)
I was faced with a problem. I wanted to use drush on a server that had no internet access. Well, I could connect to it but it could not (for security reasons) connect to the outside world.Drush...
View ArticleRemoving extra whitespaces on bunch of PHP files using Ack-grep and Emacs
As a follow up to my own post on Indentations: Tabs vs. Spaces, I wanted to cleanup a number of files that contained a lot of extra and useless whitespaces that were getting on my nerves.I did not want...
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