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The Zend Framework - part 1

I've been playing with the Zend Framework and have started a little How-To mostly for my own benefit. Using the Zend Framework - Part 1

Wordpress PHP syntax highlighting

I've been writing code in my spare time again and have been wanting to blog little snippets but Wordpress munges any code that I add into the post body. I googled for wordpress plugins and most didn't …

Building a PHP Development server from scratch

This post is very out of date. See here for a newer version written in 2013. Following these instructions will get you a Debian based PHP/MySQL development server set-up with the ability to have …

Creating a Subversion repository

This item assumes that you already have svn installed and this is the first time you've created a repository for this server (else leave out certain bits) All items here worked for me on my local …

Getting a PHP CLI on Windows

I want to do some scripting to parse the contents of the iTunes XML library and ultimitely transfer the contents to a remote server. For my desktop I use Windows XP because It Just Works most of the …

PHP backwards compatibility

Today I was writing some code - which is actually suprisingly rare these days - and I was getting an error about a particular function not existing in PHP5, array_diff_key() Luckily some body already …

PHP XML-RPC timeout

If you're using PHP to do XML-RPC and are getting odd issues with a timeout of around 60 seconds then you may want to look at the PHP.ini setting: default_socket_timeout this is by default set to 60 …

Bealers.com vN

Where N is a number > 5 Bealers.com now runs WordPress, and, as of this post, is out of beta, i.e. I have copied over the few Blogger.com posts I made. I initially tried Blogger.com, then tried …

PHP::mysqli_*

http://uk2.php.net/mysqli The mysqli extension allows you to access the functionality provided by MySQL 4.1 and above. More information about the MySQL Database server can be found at …