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Setting PHP error reporting from a vhost or .htaccess

· Development, Php

Here on our dev servers, we turn PHP error reporting full on so we get to know of any issues with our code well before it hits production (where errors are turned off). This does, however, cause …

Symfony's most popular plugins

· Development, Php

Francios a core member of the Symfony team recently blogged about the 20 most popular plugins of the Symfony project based upon page views. That list is: sfSimpleCMSPlugin sfGuardPlugin …

installing the Symfony plugin sfSimpleCMS

· Development

I was recently asked if I'd sucessfully got the Symfony plugin sfSimpleCMS working and I'm afraid my answer was no. I had tried briefly when preparing for my talk, but something didn't work and I …

Symfony at Skillswap

Gave a talk at Skillswap Bristol tonight: A pragmatic look at Symfony, the PHP5 framework. (Did it again at the PHP West Midlands group a few months later.)

Google Developer Day 2007 (London)

· Web / Meetups

On Thursday, I attended the Google Developer Day 2007 event in London, and overall, I'd say it was worth the day out of the office. My headline excuse for going was that I'm working on a project that …

Things that suck about Mac OS X

· Development

I recently bought a Mac, and today was the first day that I only had a Mac on my desk (as I took the Windows PC to use at home). After a week or so of build-up to today, using it more and more, I …

Simple hack to get PHP to install on Etch with Apache 2

· Development

I was stuck for a few mins just now when trying to do a 'make install' for php 5.2.1. I was getting the following error: apxs:Error: Activation failed for custom /etc/apache2/httpd.conf file.. …

Updated: PHP Debian development server how-to

· Development

With the recent release of Debian Etch to stable I've updated my aged Building a PHP development server article. In it I finally admit that Apache 2 exists plus I fix an embarrassingly large amount of …

UK PHP Conference 2007

· Development, Web / Meetups

Yesterday, I attended the UK PHP Conference 2007, organised by the guys at PHP London; it was held at Keyworth Centre, a part of South Bank University, near Elephant and Castle Tube. The first talk …

Symfony and AJAX

· Development

I've been playing with the AJAX support in Symfony this weekend and I'm blown away by how easy it is. Today I put together a detailed/summary view switcher for a list of items coming from a database …