A general titillation around the PHP ecosystem
Dear honourable member of PHPc (and dear kind reader), I thank you for being part and parcel of The PHP Community, for doing all that you do for PHPc and PHP and for so many of us. You are forever remarkable for being you, for doing all that you do for the community – each… Read more Serving for the Passion, for the Values That Defines Us
The Interview… >> Hi Giorgio, please tell us a bit about yourself I’m a software developer, humanist and risotto maker. I am interested in testing and in general in tools that help us achieve an high level of internal quality – sometimes the best tool to have is a bit of theory. >> How… Read more PHP Interview With Giorgio Sironi | Only Reinvent The wheel If You Want To Understand How A Component Works
A Small Intro.. For those that are new to this blog, back in October 28, 2012 I hosted Mr Matthew Weier O’Phinney (MWOP) for the very first time on 7PHP, for a… wait for it.. PHP interview of course! At that time, I also tagged him as the “Sir Alex Ferguson of the Zend Framework… Read more Making Zend Framework Components Compatible With PHP 7.2 & Is It The End of Monolithic Framework at Zend | Hear It From The Mouth Of The Principal Engineer at Zend Technologies a.k.a Mr Matthew Weier O’Phinney
Review Of The Ebook Career Advice by Uncle Cal A Small Intro | #1st Edition This is the very first review that I’m doing on 7PHP. This is something that I’m going to implement as part of my new reload this year (2017). I have laid down a framework for myself to do all reviews… Read more Ebook Review For Uncle Cal’s Career Advice To Developers
Two New Changes In this 7PHP Reload this year, I’m introducing two new things: Trying to ask my interviewees to do a short audio or video recording of themselves. I want my readers to get more connected with them. I’m also introducing a new section called as The Rapid Fire Section. A Small Intro.. Today… Read more Interview With Mihail Irintchev Team Leader At SiteGround Web hosting
Purpose Of This Interview | The 3rd One This is the 3rd edition in a series of “It’s The Tools Talking”. Something which I kickstarted right on the 1st of Jan to start off the year 2016. I am continuing with it, breaking my 1yr Hiatus as I announced last week. For this episode #3,… Read more What Tools Does The PHPrince Of Persia Use In His Daily Adventures?!
A Small Intro.. “It’s The Tools Talking!“ Aye! We are back after the first awesome one back on the 1st Jan 2016 to kick-off the New Year with Michelangelo van Dam in a rocking way! In this #2nd edition, I’m overwhelmed but also quite ‘on my guard‘ as I talk with The Grumpy PHP Programmer aka Chris Hartjes –… Read more What Secret Tools Does The Grumpy Programmer ‘Chris Hartjes’ Harness, To Be So grumpy?! It’s The Tools Talking! Aye!
What Is This All About.. This early morning, while going for a walk at National Park (Mauritius) to relax and regenerating myself, I constantly have a thinking mind. And this time, I was “with” nature and also thinking about php/#PHPc (as always) – and thus came the idea for #phpGreen. To know more, watch the small… Read more Let’s #phpGreen – With 7PHP At National Park Mauritius
A Small Intro.. A little more than over 2 years ago (in June 2013), I did my 34th 7PHP interview with a young dynamic (can very much say as explosive as a dynamite as well – explosive in the good sense) named as Phil Sturgeon. I still remember at that time while I hit the “publish”… Read more Happy New Year 2016 Message From Phil Sturgeon To The PHP Community
A Small Intro.. Hey! First of all I would like to wish you all an amazing 2016 full of every good thing coming your way! And thank you so much for being and sticking with 7PHP, I’m really thankful to all of you. Kickstarting this very first day of this fresh New Year 2016, 7PHP… Read more What Tools Does PHP Superstar Michelangelo Use In His Daily PHP Routine!
This is a quick post on a “simple” thing which took me like like 40mins (too long) to figure out why. All the issue was revolving between how I was using Try-Catch with Finally and a return statement. Let’s consider this block of code: NOTE: The code indentation is not rendering great below, so I have… Read more Wrongly Positioning a ‘Return’ Statement Inside An Inner ‘Finally’ Block Can Be Lethal
ZendCon is said to be The Global PHP Conference and every year is an amazement in itself. But this year, 2015, will be one of those “once in a blue moon” type of event with the arrival of PHP 7. So Zend Inc., The PHP Company, promises to deliver one of the most unique and… Read more The #ZendCon Interview | The Unique 2015 Edition of ZendCon
‘A Lil bit’ About #DC4D, And May Be ‘A Lil bit’ more.. Oh wait, what’s #DC4D you ask? Let me tell you that you are doing it wrong if you don’t know about it! Aye elePHPant!! Day Camp 4 Developers is a virtual ‘mini’ PHP conference. Meaning you can watch in realtime 5 awesome speakers,… Read more #DC4D Brings You Debugging Beyond The var_dump() Approach
Welcome To The Pacific Northwest PHP Conference >> Could you, the leader(s), tell us a bit about yourself I’m Jeremy, or @jeremeamia on Twitter, and I’m currently the president of the Seattle PHP User Group (@SeaPHP). Until very recently, I was working at Amazon Web Services on their PHP SDK, but now I’ve joined the… Read more Pacific Northwest PHP Conference | Sneak Glance At The Pre-Event!
Quel est le but de ceci? Ceci est la 2ème série de notre #20YearsOfPHP! OUI $this->year[‘2015’] doit être inonder avec beaucoup, beaucoup d’amour et de bonheur pour célébrer ce moment unique et incroyable. Tout ce que PHP a réalisé aujourd’hui, est le travail acharné de myriades de ‘PHP rockstar’ de partout dans le monde. C’est aussi dû… Read more [2] #20YearsOfPHP – 20 ans Déjà Pour PHP, Écoutons Ben Ramsey
What Is This About? This is the 2nd serie of our #20YearsOfPHP ! YES $this->year[‘2015’] needs to be over-brimmed with lots and lots of love and happiness to celebrate this amazing unique moment. All that PHP has achieved today, is the hard work of myriads of PHP rockstar from all over the world. It’s also because of a super-fantastic… Read more [2] #20YearsOfPHP – Let’s Hear It From Ben Ramsey
Quel est le but de ceci? Comme la plupart d’entre vous le savent, PHP a célébré son 20e anniversaire le 8 Juin 2015. Chris Cornutt fait déjà une tâche impressionnante de maintenir une liste de toutes les histoires de personnes PHP qui font partie intégrante de #PHPc – voyez toute la liste ici (cliquez svp)!… Read more #20YearsOfPHP – 20 ans Déjà Pour PHP, Écoutons Cal Evans
What Is This About? As most of you know, PHP celebrated it’s 20th birthday on the 8th June 2015. Chris Cornutt is already doing an awesome task of maintaining a list of all the PHP stories of people who are part and parcel of PHPc – see the whole list here (click)! Here over 7PHP,… Read more #20YearsOfPHP – Let’s Hear It From Cal Evans
Small Intro This article tries to demonstrate how to setup an AWS (EC2) instance, installing a LEMP stack, preparing the server environment to meet Magento’s requirements and then to finally install Magento v2 using commandline approach. While, I completely agree that: – you can use any other VPS – you can git clone using https… Read more Installing Magento version 2 on an AWS (Amazon) Free Tier EC2 Instance On LEMP – Everything Command Line Way!
What Is This All About? In January 2015, I reach out to some of the members and rockstars of The PHP Community. The objectives being about how these PHPers see 2015 and also about how year 2014 has been community-wise, PHP-wise and their own self. So Let’s Hear From Michelangelo van Dam Michelangelo needs no… Read more 2015 Message & 2014 Retro of Michelangelo To The PHP Community
The PHPorce, In You It Resides! Three days back (that is last Friday 20th March 2015) our living PHP Community Legend, our PHP Icon, our own Mr Cal Evans tweeted something profound which most of us in one way or the other understand – if you have the ability to view it by summoning your PHPorce. No your 3D… Read more The PHP Community Is Also About Promoting Lifestyle Changes & Nurturing Healthy Habits – Get OnBoard #BiggestLoserPHP15 With Coderabbi! #CommunityWorks
Help Someone Win If You Already Have A Ticket If you already have a ticket or if you are not planning to be in, please share this with someone who can benefit from it. I have nothing to gain here, it’s a humble and generous donation which is made possible by Cal Evans of NomadPHP. So… Read more [NomadPHP – 19th March 2015 Tickets] – Win (Two) Free Ticket(s) To Hear A Talk scheduled for EU time or US time!
Refreshing Thyself – What Is This About? If you did not know, NomadPHP is virtual PHP User Group mainly for people who do not have the chance to avail of a local PHP user group. But it is open to ANYONE around the world. I also remind you that NomadPHP is an initiative brought forward by the icon of… Read more [NomadPHP – 19 February 2015 Tickets] – Win A Free Ticket To Hear A Talk scheduled for EU time or US time!
Who’s David Heinemeier Hansson aka DHH Back in March 2013, I was honored to interview DHH for the first time. For those who might not have heard about him, David Heinemeier Hansson is the creator/father of Ruby and Rails. Yeah, I know! That’s not related with PHP, but the Programming world is Universal. Let’s Hear The New Year… Read more Happy NewYear2015 Message From David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) To The Wider Programmer Community
Who’s Stefan Koopmanschap? I previously did a PHP interview with Stefan aka Skoop on twitter, which you can read here! And as I also mentioned in my November 2014 post, I was honored to meet him in person back in Oct 2014. Let’s Hear The New Year Message From Stefan Koopmanschap! >> Hey Skoop! How has 2014… Read more Happy NewYear2015 Message From Stefan Koopmanschap To The PHP Community
Welcome To The PHP South Coast Conference >> Could you, the leader(s), tell us a bit about yourself I’m James Titcumb or known on Twitter and IRC as “asgrim“. I lead the PHP Hampshire user group and the PHP South Coast conference itself. For a day job I work at a life insurance comparison website,… Read more Know Thy PHP Conference Know The PHP South Coast Conference – It’s All ‘About & For’ The PHP Community
What Is This About Today I have the pleasure and honor to welcome Rafael Dohms the 2nd PHP ninja turtle (the other one being of course Michelangelo van Dam) on 7PHP, after his first which dates back to April 2012. Rafael has recently come up with an awesome initiative (some days back): the elePHPant family will soon witness the… Read more The Black AmsterdamPHP elePHPant – A New PHPamily Member Is Born
A Small Intro.. PHP North West 2014 was the first PHP Conference ever that I attended. I was full of emotions and excitement – this conference has a special meaning to me, it was like a ‘magical dream but in reality!‘ (Urm, I hope you get that craziness, passion involved here). I was sponsored fully to… Read more 7PHP Attended PHP North West In Oct 2014 – Emotions & Review of #PHPNW14
What Is This About? In October 2014, I attended my first ever PHP Conference which was at PHP North West in London / Manchester. But few of you actually know that this whole thing was magically made possible because of The PHP Community & it’s valiant members. #CommunityGivesBack My Passion – I Somehow also PHPleep… Read more A Glaring Example Of The Unique Spirit of The PHP Community => 7PHP Says Thanks To The PHP Community For PHPNW!
A Small Intro Rambling.. Prestashop has been gaining a lot of traction down the last couple of years and 2014 has been a great year for Prestashop. I have been working on Prestashop for over a year for my best client ever which is Neopost France. I have been doing about anything and everything except… Read more Prestashop – A 7PHP Comprehensive Interview You Don’t Wanna Miss! Showing The World Why PHP Is Amazing.
Welcome To The EndPoint – API Conference >> Could you, the leader(s), tell us a bit about yourself My name is Ivo Jansch, I’m the founder of Egeniq.com, I’m a developer, book author and conference organizer. I’m currently working on the book ‘N ways to be a better developer‘ together with Lorna Mitchell. >> What… Read more Know Thy Conference Know The EndPoint API Conference – APIs Will Be Everywhere & Every Service Will Offer Them
Assumptions for this article: For this article we are using Windows 8 (64-bit) – but this should work for windows 7 too I’m using PHPstorm 7.1 (the latest one at the time of this writing) I’m using SVN 1.8 You know how to install PHPstorm (the awesome PHP IDE) & have it handy on your machine What Is… Read more How To Use SVN 1.8 With Jetbrains PHPstorm 7.1 (On Windows 8)
I was installing this package from github and I came across the following issue: – Installing doctrine/annotations (dev-master e93f3b7) Cloning e93f3b718c421daddff58c4a4af1aee574472cd6 Failed to download doctrine/annotations from source: The process “git clone –no-checkout ‘git://github.com/doctrine/annotations.git’ ‘/var/www/pagekit.com/pagekit/vendor/doctrine/annotations’ && cd ‘/var/www/pagekit.com/pagekit/vendor/doctrine/annotations’ && git remote add composer ‘git://github.com/doctrine/annotations.git’ && git fetch composer” exceeded the timeout of 300 seconds. Now trying… Read more Composer Issue + ” exceeded the timeout of 300 seconds “
Welcome To The Las Vegas PHP User Group >> Hi Adam Englander, tell us a bit about yourself.. I am a technology profession with nearly 30 years of development experience with the last 7 having PHP as my primary language. >> What is a user group? A user group is a place where users of a particular… Read more Know The Las Vegas PHP User Group – Help Each Other & We All Benefit
An 7PHP Profile for Michelangelo van Dam All 7PHP Articles Featuring Michelangelo van Dam Michelangelo’s 7PHP – PHP interview His Zend Certification Advice interview His wise thoughts on PHPwomen His wishes to Cal Evans who just turned 50 He bitcoinized 7PHP Michelangelo talks about What is an uncon 2015 Message & 2014 Retro of… Read more The 7PHP Rockstar Profile of Michelangelo van Dam
Purpose Of This Interview This is the #1st set of Magento Certification Tips and Advice to help anyone taking either of the FOUR Magento Exams powered by Magento – an Ebay Inc. Company: the Magento Front End Developer Certification, the Magento Developer Certification, the Magento Developer Plus Certification and/or the Magento Certified Solution Specialist. The aim being… Read more Magento Certifications Tips & Tricks – Hear It From Magento Certified Engineer Phillip Jackson
What is this all about.. Last time, I’ve introduced the Captain America of The PHP Ecosystem to you, aka Josh Lockhart, via a 7PHP ‘PHP Interview series to help drive thy PHP aspirations‘. This time we go a little bit further with Josh to find out ‘as much as we can‘ about his little masterpiece,… Read more A Comprehensive Interview About Slim The Micro PHP Framework
What Is This All About? Lone Star PHP is a PHP conference which takes place yearly in Dallas/Texas. This year, it took place some weeks back on the 25th-26th April 2014. So what was the buzz, the happenings and the PHPing all about in there? To serve this purpose, 7PHP brings you some reviews based on… Read more Lone Star PHP 2014 Review 02 :: Spotlight On Jeremy Lindblom’s Stay @ #lsp14 – Let’s Continue To Learn & Share #CommunityWorks
What Is This All About? Welcome to the 7PHP PHP-eatre (theatre) where the screens never tires of diffusing everything that has PHP deep down inside the DNA. Tonight, we’ll watch the “after-the-show” of a yummy PHP Conference, named as the Lone Star PHP which took place last week. The screen tonight, features our PHP Rockstar, the… Read more Lone Star PHP 2014 Review 01 :: Spotlight On Chris Tankersley’s Stay @ #lsp14 – We Need To Talk To Each Other To Learn & Grow
A Small Long Intro.. “It’s just PHP, it’s dead easy.. even my kid can do this” – if you have been coding PHP for a while and/or been mingling with different developers or colleagues at some point, you have most probably heard something similar. When these kind of unhealthy mists are diffused around (coupled with… Read more PHP Interview With Josh Lockhart The Guy Behind ‘PHP The Right Way’ – Find Good Online Resources And Communities & Use Them To Your Advantage
A Small Intro.. Back on the 5th November 2013, I landed on three quotes from Jacques Woodcock – published by SouthernAlpha. Those quotes were the outcome of a chat between the ‘World Famous’ Jacques (as Jeremy Kendall tags him) and Clark Buckner on: “about giving back to the community“. The article (I felt) did not… Read more The PHP Community Is Much More Than PHP Codes or Frameworks. It’s About Good Involvement, Humility, Empathy, Relationship & Giving Back – Jacques Woodcock Shares His Wisdom!
A Small Intro.. You have all heard of recruitment; we have it in all sphere and The PHP Sphere is no exception to that. Have you ever had a talk with a recruiter? Are you considering reaching out to a PHP recruiter? Or may be, as a company, you are looking to hire one to… Read more A Talk With PHP Recruiter Lonnie Brown – Forget About Money & Take Care Of Your Candidates
A Small Intro.. Have you been to an unconference aka uncon? I have not unfortunately (at least not yet)! But I was curious of what it actually is, the benefit you can reap from it, the responsibilities that it presents and how it’s different from a conference. I started looking around of a possible interview… Read more Michelangelo van Dam Shares His Insights On Unconference
Bitcoin Came To Me Via Michelangelo van Dam That Wednesday 8th January 2014, I got a twitter private message from Michelangelo van Dam. [And each time I pronounced his name, I feel like I hear Cal Evans‘ words: “Michelangelo is the man with the coolest name ever in The PHP Community”]. When I clicked on the small “blue… Read more 7PHP Have Been Bitcoinized By Michelangelo :: My First Bitcoin Experience & My First Bitcoins From Michelangelo – The Green Ninja Turtle With A PHP Black Belt!
A Small Intro :: PHP & The PHP Community.. If you know how to echo “Hello, PHP’s simplicity is actually awesome; I do not need magical programming skills to use it like this“, – you are a PHP beginner.. If you’ve pushed your first commits on github, you are possibly an intermediate PHPer.. If you’ve… Read more How & Why Did The PHP Mascot Come To Birth? The elePHPant Secret Story!
A 2nd** Magical PHP Surprise Early today (Monday) morning before starting my working day, I was having a hot cup of tea (Mauritius has one of the finest black tea) while just hovering through my 7PHP email quickly. One email caught my attention, it was from the Creator of The Magical elePHPant, I named Vincent… Read more 7PHP Has Been Blessed Today By The ‘PHPather Spirituel’ aka Elroubio
My Heart Started Beating.. That day (some weeks back in November**) I was busy with my new PHP mission – a Prestashop-based project for a client (NeoPost.com) – yep I’m the (new) sole PHP guy behind Neopost France & Neopost Benelux since the last 6months. I was very motivated and was peacefully focusing on my… Read more Look The Green Zend elePHPant Is In Mauritius With 7PHP
Icon Of The PHP Community Completes Half A Century! “The PHP community may very well be the greatest feature of the language. So many great people that are all willing to sit down and share what they know” – Cal once revealed on 7PHP. So if The Community is the greatest feature of the PHP language, Cal… Read more Icon Of The PHP Community Turns 50 – Happy Birthday Cal Evans!
A Small Intro.. Have you ever tried to use Slim PHP micro framework? Or you are in a confusion whether to choose it or not? Well, today I bring you a small chat with Jeremy Kendall [@jeremykendall] who’s been using Slim PHP for quite some time now and he is even using it on his side… Read more Slim PHP Micro Framework Through The Lens Of Jeremy Kendall
How To Win The Free Ticket Two possible ways to participate: Just make a comment below, that’s it! Also do provide your active email so that I can contact you easily and quickly! If you are on my email list, you will receive an email soon to which you just have to blank reply for your participation So,… Read more [NomadPHP European Time – 19 December 2013 Tickets] – Win Free Tickets To Hear Matt Frost Talk About “Mocking Dependencies in PHPUnit”
How To Win The Free Ticket Two possible ways to participate: Just make a comment below, that’s it! Also do provide your active email so that I can contact you easily and quickly! If you are on my email list, you will receive an email soon to which you just have to blank reply for your participation So,… Read more [NomadPHP US Time – 19 December 2013 Tickets] – Win Free Tickets To Hear Sara Golemon Talk About “Scaling PHP with HipHop”
What I Want To Achieve When coding a project, at times (or most of it?) some classes might have more than 3 fields (for whatever reason it suits you) So instead of each time writing and repeating setters and getters (accessor methods), I would like to have a piece of reusable code for all my… Read more How To Auto Generate Properties Dynamically For All Your Classes Using Magic Methods & Reflection
This is week is a major step in the Jetbrains PHP world, yes PHPstorm 7 is out and full of awesomeness. So before I install phpstorm 7, I want to completely remove the previous phpstorm 6 on my Mac OS X 10.8. Here are the steps I did: Make sure you disable or uninstall any… Read more Mac OS X 10.8 + How To Completely Remove / Uninstall PHPStorm – Jetbrains PHP IDE
What Is This About? Here I am again for another NomadPHP Ticket(s) give-away. Two tickets will be given away – to the 1st & 2nd draw winner! If you did not know, NomadPHP is virtual PHP User Group mainly for people who do not have the chance to avail of a local PHP user group.… Read more [NomadPHP US Time – 24 October 2013 Tickets] – Win Free Tickets To Hear Adam Culp Talk About “Clean Application Development”
A Small Intro.. Today I bring you an interview with someone (named Michael Wallner, @_m6w6) who has been hired to work full-time on PHP. Yes you heard it right: this guy is paid to work on The Core of PHP. As you know PHP is open-source, so why would a company hire someone to work… Read more PHP Interview With Michael Wallner A Full-Time Core PHP Developer – Try To Understand How Things Work & Why They Work That Way
Welcome To The New PHPWomen >> A brief history of PHPWomen The 8th of October, 2006 as a call for the women of PHP to “stand up and be counted” Ligaya Turmelle and Elizabeth Naramore founded PHPWomen. Since this time, PHPWomen has grown as a group and now has an active community spanning the globe.… Read more Welcome To The New PHPWomen – Interview with Michelle Sanver and Lineke Kerckhoffs-Willems
What Is This About? Here I am again for another NomadPHP Ticket(s) give-away. Two tickets will be given away – to the 1st & 2nd draw winner! If you did not know, NomadPHP is virtual PHP User Group mainly for people who do not have the chance to avail of a local PHP user group.… Read more [NomadPHP EuropeanTime – 17 October 2013 Tickets] – Win Free Tickets To Hear Chris Cornutt Talk About “Dispelling the Myths About Authentication & Authorisation”
A Small Intro.. In this edition I talk with Maarten Balliauw who is the technical evangelist at Jetbrains (the php ide PHPStorm is one its product you can recall). @maartenballiauw is of those few programmers who is indulged closely with both PHP and .NET worlds – meaning this interview will also have questions on both… Read more PHP Interview With Maarten Balliauw Technical Evangelist at JetBrains – Learn From Others & Talk About What Your Experiences And Issues Are
Who Are James Titcumb & Organisers Of PHP Hampshire? Last time I welcomed the PHP Hampshire User Group here on 7php – where James talked about the group, the crew, how it all started and everything else.. How-To PHP User Group From The Experience Of James Titcumb & Organisers Of PHP Hampshire >> What are… Read more How-To User Group – Hear It From James Titcumb & Organisers Of PHP Hampshire – “Be Decisive & Take The Lead”
A Small Intro.. Whenever we talk about web development nowadays, there has to be an awareness or at least an interest towards cloud computing. We, as PHP Developers, should be aware of what development in the cloud has to offer and how we can leverage it to stay in the game. To this end, I… Read more A Chat About Cloud Computing & PHP Development In The Cloud
A Small Intro.. In this edition I talked with Corey Ballou who is the co-organizer of the Queen City PHP meetup group. @cballou has also been working as a developer with the cool mojoLive team. To be noted that Corey will be the speaker for the next, 3rd NomadPHP Online Talk this week and he… Read more PHP Interview With Corey Ballou Co-Organizer Of The Queen City PHP Meetup Group – Start A Web Development Blog & Write About New Things You Learn
What Is This About? NomadPHP is already on their 3rd edition and I’m hence also on my 3rd Ticket(s) give-away. So by now you should have heard about NomadPHP. If you still haven’t, you should probably read: the (first) Ticket Give-away here the second ticket give-away +++ also read about the NomadPHP interview with Cal Evans – The… Read more [NomadPHP July 2013 Tickets] – Win (TWO) Free Tickets To Hear Corey Ballou Talk About Creating Realtime Applications with PHP and Websockets
A Small Intro… Previously on thursday 27th July 2013 (8pm CDT), NomadPHP hosted their 2nd talk which was about “Laravel 4” – the speaker being Phil Sturgeon. I also announced my 2nd free ticket giveaway for this online event – a generosity awesomely made possible by the ever-awesome @NomadPHP organizer; Cal Evans. In this short (as… Read more Speaker & Attendee Feedback Of The Previous Laravel4 Talk Of NomadPHP June 2013
Welcome To The PHP Hampshire User Group >> Could you, the leader(s), tell us a bit about yourself.. I am James Titcumb (@Asgrim) – I’m part of a team of 5 organisers of the PHP Hampshire user group – the other 4 are: Richard Holloway – (@richardjh_org) Lee Boynton – (@leeboynton) Simon Wade Jon Wigham… Read more Know Thy PHP User Group Know The PHP Hampshire User Group – Find An Independent Venue Rather Than Conference Venues
A Small Intro.. In this edition I talked with Phil Sturgeon who is the founder of the CMS named as PyroCMS. He also wrote a book about it called “Catapult into PyroCMS“. @Philsturgeon is very much involved in The PHP Community; he regularly participates in conferences, is a prominent voice and voting member of The PHP-Fig… Read more PHP Interview With Phil Sturgeon The Man Behind PyroCMS – Follow A Standard It Doesn’t Have To Be PSR-1 or PSR-2
What Is This About? If you did not hear about NomadPHP, you should probably read about the previous (first) Ticket Give-away here and also read about the interview with Cal Evans – The NomadPHP organizer. NomadPHP is already on their 2nd edition and a 3rd one also is looming around. For more info, see their… Read more [NomadPHP June 2013 Tickets] – Win (TWO) Free Tickets To Hear Phil Sturgeon Talk About Laravel 4
A Small Intro.. In this edition I talked with Vito Chin who is a multi-talented, cool geek; @vitoc has a first class honors degree in Software Engineering, is a co-founder of lentor.io, is the lead maintainer of the Gmagick extension for PHP and is the co-author of the PHP book “PHP Development in the Cloud… Read more PHP Interview With Vito Chin Lead Maintainer Of Gmagick Extension For PHP – Learn More About The Ecosystem That PHP Is Usually Part Of
A Small Intro… (Last) Wednesday 22nd May 2013, NomadPHP hosted their first talk which was about “Zend Framework 2” – a talk by Rob Allen. I even announced a two-ticket giveaways which was made possible by NomadPHP. In this article you’ll find short interviews which will showcase the opinion, feedback and suggestions from the NomadPHP… Read more Things You Don’t Know About NomadPHP + The ‘After-First-Talk’ Of NomadPHP – Features 5 interviews with The Organizer, The Speaker & 3 Attendees
How-To PHP User Group From The Experience Of Craig Willis >> Could you tell us a bit about yourself + the user groups you created I’m Craig Willis, the founder/organiser of LeedsPHP >> What is a user group Our user group is aimed at PHP Development. >> What is the aim of a user group?… Read more How To Start A PHP User Group – Hear It From Craig Willis Founder Of The LeedsPHP Usergroup – “The Meetup Must Have A Theme”
Welcome To The Leeds PHP User Group (LeedsPHP) >> Could you, the leader(s), tell us a bit about yourself Hi. I’m Craig Willis. I’m a PHP Web Developer based in Leeds, UK. I’ve been a PHP Developer for about 7 years. >> What is a user group? In my opinion a User Group is a… Read more Know Thy PHP User Group Know The Leeds PHP User Group (LeedsPHP) – “Choose A Sponsor That Is Actually Interested In Promoting PHP In The Community”
A Small Intro.. Adminer, formerly known as phpMinAdmin, is a full-featured database management tool to be used as a more simple, effective and fast alternative to the famous PHPmyAdmin. Being curious about it, I had a chat with the creator of Adminer, Jakub Vrana. Who Is Jakub Vrana? Last time I did a thorough PHP… Read more A Chat About Adminer – A Simple, Yet Effective, Database Management tool written in PHP
What Is This About? This is about winning a (two giveaways) free ticket to attend a premium online PHP talk by a PRO PHPer, organized by NomadPHP.com scheduled for Wednesday 22nd May 2013 You do not have to travel, you just have to sit in front of your pc! What Is NomadPHP? NomadPHP is like… Read more [NomadPHP May 2013 Tickets] – Win (TWO) Free Tickets To Hear Rob Allen Introduce Zend Framework 2
Welcome To The Dutch PHP Conference (DPC) & The Dutch Mobile Conference (DMC) >> Could you, the leader(s), tell us a bit about yourself? Our conference work is a company wide effort done through Ibuildings, a Dutch agency specializing in web and mobile app development. Everyone helps out in different ways, from graphic design to… Read more Know Thy PHP Conference Know The Dutch PHP Conference (DPC) & The Dutch Mobile Conference (DMC) – “If You Can Do It Ahead Of Time, No Matter What It Is, Do It!”
A Small Intro.. In this edition I talked with Jakub Vrana who is a co-author of The Official PHP Manual. @jakubvrana is also the creator of the two successful projects namely Adminer and NotORM. I invite you to know him better and to learn from his 7php PHP interview. And Now The Interview… >> Please… Read more PHP Interview With Jakub Vrana Co-Author Of The Official PHP Manual – Learn How To Use Arrays + Use Classes In A Smart Way
upd: The below template has been discontinued 7downStrap – A Clean HTML5 Template For “download pages” 7downStrap is to be used as a website template for a page where you need to present a downloadable content. For example, on the 7downStrap demo page, I present the download of 7downStrap itself. In brief, 7downStrap is a… Read more 7downStrap – A Free Clean Simple Responsive Fluid HTML5 Template Using Twitter Bootstrap For Single Download Pages
WordPress Keeps Updating Like Hell If you use wordpress (like me) to power up your blogging engine, you would know that wordpress keeps on releasing new versions. Year 2012 saw 15times releases! That can get irritating at times, but you have no choice than to keep your software/systems up-to-date. You can see all the releases… Read more How I Update WordPress Manually On A VPS Server Like Linode.com
Purpose Of This Interview This is the 3rd set of Zend Certification Tips and Advice to help anyone taking either of the two Zend Exams powered by Zend Technologies: the Zend PHP Certification Exam and/or the Zend Framework Certification Exam. The aim being to help people who want to sit for those exams and inform… Read more Zend Certifications Tips & Tricks – Hear It From Zend Certified Engineer Eric Hogue
A Small Intro.. In this edition I talked with Manuel Lemos who is the founder of the famous and huge PHPClasses.org. @ManuelLemos has been rambling a lot about PHP, doing all sorts of stuffs on phpclasses back since 1999 – podcasts, interviews, sharing scripts, writing scripts, blogging, shouting and I even doubt he drinks-eats-sleeps there… Read more PHP Interview With Manuel Lemos Founder Of PHPClasses.org – Focus On The Problems Rather Than The Means To Solve Them
A Small Intro.. In this edition I talked with Lineke Kerckhoffs-Willems who is the Co-Founder Of ProTalk. @the_linie is the third #phpwomen I’m hosting on 7php.com after Lorna and Ligaya. Lineke is a very active member of and promoting the purpose of PHPwomen.org. She is indulged in a lot of stuffs; she attends a lot… Read more PHP Interview With Lineke Kerckhoffs-Willems Co-Founder Of ProTalk.me – Start Learning PHP Properly First Before Diving Into Any Frameworks
A Small Intro.. In this edition I talked with [Stefan Priebsch @spriebsch] who is one of the Elite members of The PHP Consulting Company, thePHP.cc. He is regarded as a highly knowledgeable gentleman, has rewritten an array of books related to Software Development and software life cycles; in short Stefan is an acclaimed expert for PHP… Read more PHP Interview With Stefan Priebsch A Co-Founder Of The PHP Consulting Company aka thePHP.cc – Look Beyond PHP!
A Small Intro.. As much as learning is a continuous process, it’s also important to learn from different people. Going a step further, it’s insightful to learn from people that are doing different stuffs than you. As a software engineer, I see a programming language as a tool; but the concept and principles of software… Read more Interview With David Heinemeier Hansson – Creator Of Ruby on Rails
A Small Intro.. Zurmo caught my attention on social networks recently. With all the buzz words and cool stuffs it says it is using/implementing, I was was intrigued. It is also redefining the way CRM is used, introducing new concept as you will see. Since it’s PHP-based, I had a closer look and was quite… Read more A Comprehensive Interview With Zurmo CRM Tool + What Is A CRM & Its Relevance In Today’s Era
A Small Intro.. If you are pretty much hooked to The PHP World and like to keep abreast with PHP frameworks, you have surely heard of The PHP Meta Framework called as The PPI Framework. It is said to be moulded by “taking the good bits from Symfony 2, ZendFramework 2 & Doctrine 2“. PPI… Read more Interview With PPI – The PHP Meta-Framework
Purpose Of This Interview This is the 2nd set of Zend Certification Tips and Advice to help anyone taking either of the two Zend Exams powered by Zend Technologies: the Zend PHP Certification Exam and/or the Zend Framework Certification Exam. The aim being to help people who want to sit for those exams and inform… Read more Zend Certifications Tips & Tricks – Hear It From Zend Certified Engineer Lorna Jane Mitchell
Purpose Of This Interview This is the 1st set of Zend Certification Tips and Advice to help anyone taking either of the two Zend Exams powered by Zend Technologies: the Zend PHP Certification Exam and/or the Zend Framework Certification Exam. The aim being to help people who want to sit for those exams and inform… Read more Zend Certifications Tips & Tricks – Hear It From Zend Certified Engineer Michelangelo van Dam
Assumptions You are using a linux distro, in my instance I’m using Linux Mint, but this is applicable to any deb-based linux for example Ubuntu or Debian Your LAMP Stack is XAMPP You are familiar with using phpize and can install it You know how to configure your web server Overview Installing the xdebug extension… Read more Linux Mint + XAMPP + How To Install Xdebug Extension For PHP
A Small Intro.. In this edition I talked with Paul Dragoonis who is the CTO at BestBuys.com. He is to the PHP Community what the young talented and awesome footballer Javier Hernández aka Chicharito is to The Manchester United Football Community! With varied skill-sets and having his hand at so many aspects and projects as… Read more PHP Interview With Paul Dragoonis CTO At BestBuys.com – Expand Your Connections Via Twitter, IRC & Google Plus
A Small Intro.. In this edition I talked with Timothy Boronczyk who is the Managing Editor of the famous PHPmaster.com – which is a network (venture?) of the eminent SitePoint (an online media company). @zaemis is also the co-author of the book “Beginning PHP 6, Apache, MySQL 6 Web Development“. And Now The Interview… >>… Read more PHP Interview With Timothy Boronczyk The Managing Editor of PHPmaster.com – No Substitute For Real-Life Experience Of Writing & Debugging Code
A Small Intro.. In this edition I talked with Derick Rethans the Father Of The PHP developer’s Swiss-Army Knife aka Xdebug. Derick is an expert when it comes to the PHP Internals; no wonder he is viewed as a vibrant and “man of action” within The PHP Community. As a PHP Core Contributor, he has… Read more PHP Interview With Derick Rethans The Father Of The PHP Swiss-Army Knife aka Xdebug – Get Familiar With PHP Security!
A Small Intro.. In this edition I talked with the full time Goddess, Ligaya Turmelle who is the Co-Founder Of PHPwomen.org – The PHP Women User Group. [Ligaya @lig] is also the Principal MySQL Technical Support Engineer at Oracle. @lig is the second #phpwomen I’m hosting on 7php.com. She has been speaking at so many… Read more PHP Interview With Ligaya Turmelle Co-Founder Of PHPwomen.org – Find A Mentor #php-mentoring
A Small Intro.. If you were having a sky-diving on planet Mars since the past months, or if you were too enthusiastic in getting lost within The Hobbit’s World – wake up Sid! There’s news concerning PHP Land! On “its” 10th birthday, last December 2012, your “PHP Magazine for PHP Professionals” (The one & only… Read more Interview With Musketeers.me On Taking Over PHP|Architect – Goal Is To Make Existing Processes More Efficient With Fresh Bloods
A Small Intro.. In this edition I talked with Geeky Boy, [Adam Culp @adamculp], who is The Leader and Organizer of The South Florida PHP User Group (aka @SoFloPHP) and the organizer of the hot and buzz-ling SunShinePHP Conference for developers. @SunShinePHP will be held in Miami / Florida in feb 2013 and is promising… Read more PHP Interview With Adam Culp The Organizer Of The South Florida PHP User Group & The Sunshine PHP Conference – Don’t Be Afraid To Break Anything
You Are A PHP Fan… If you are reading this article, you are passionate about PHP and you are linked with PHP and The PHP Community in one form or the other. Just like me, you are eager to attend a PHP conference, wants to get excited about it, wants to meet, talk and get… Read more Everything You Should Know About The PHP Master Series Vol 1 – Get Prepared To Ask Your Questions Beforehand!
A Small Intro.. In this edition I talked with Francesco Fullone who is the President of the Italian PHP User Group GrUSP which is one of the biggest European PHP families. Francesco is an Open-source lover, an enthusiastic PHP Evangelist and a conference organizer. He has also been a speaker at so many conferences – his… Read more PHP Interview With Francesco Fullone The President Of The Italian PHP User Group GrUSP – Confrontation Is The first Step To Enlightenment
A Small Intro.. In this edition I talked with Rob Allen who is the main author of the famous PHP book “Zend Framework in Action“. He is very passionate about the whole Zend stuffs: he’s a contributor to the Zend_Config component in Zend Framework 1 he’s a member of the Zend Framework Education Advisory Board… Read more PHP Interview With Rob Allen The Main Author Of The Book Zend Framework in Action – Learn Security Best Practices From The Beginning
A Small Intro.. In this edition I talked with [Matthew Weier O’Phinney @weierophinney], the project Lead of Zend Framework at Zend Technologies Ltd. He is to the Zend PHP Community what Sir Alex Ferguson is to the Manchester United Football’s Community. And Cal Evans (Icon Of The PHP Community) calls him the Supreme Allied Commander… Read more PHP Interview With Matthew Weier O’Phinney Project Lead of Zend Framework – Read Code, Ask questions, Write Lots Of Code & Be Humble
A Small Intro.. In this edition I talked with [Patrick Allaert @patrick_allaert], the creator and lead developer of the Alternative PHP Monitor extension. Patrick is also an eZ Publish expert where he is currently a Core developer. He is an Open Source lover and used to be a prominent Board member at the famous and amazing… Read more PHP Interview With Patrick Allaert Creator Of Alternative PHP Monitor aka APM – Come To PHP Conferences
A Small Intro.. In this edition I talked with [Eli White @EliW], who is currently the Founding Partner and Chief Technical Officer Of Musketeers.me – a consulting firm. Eli was previously the CTO at the social career management platform known as mojoLive and has been working for numerous famous high profile web projects, namely Digg… Read more PHP Interview With Eli White Chief Technical Officer Of Musketeers.me – Just Get In There, Hack Some Code And Enjoy Yourself
A Small Intro.. In this edition I talked with [Matthew Turland @elazar], co-author of the PHP book ‘PHP Master:Write Cutting Edge Code‘. He currently works as a Senior Platform Engineer for Synacor Inc. Matthew was also a former technical editor for php|architect Magazine, contributor to the Zend Framework project and has spoken at conferences like… Read more PHP Interview With Matthew Turland Co-Author Of ‘PHP Master:Write Cutting Edge Code’ – Learn How To Write PHP Without Using A Third-party Framework First
A Small Intro.. In this edition I talked with [Ian Barber @ianbarber] who is a developer advocate for Google+. Ian has been working with PHP for Virgin in the UK and has an amazing run of experience in the PHP world; delivering presentations at a number of conferences – his recent talk entails “Building a… Read more PHP Interview With Ian Barber A Developer Advocate For Google+ – Try To Dip Your Toe Into Other Languages As Well
Purpose Of This Interview This is the #16th set of PHP Interview to help aspiring PHP developers and PHP fans alike to get inspired by listening from those PHP guys who are already highly involved into the PHP Ocean and being ‘there’ taming the waves and surfing better than ever to make themselves an Awesome… Read more PHP Interview With Jacques Woodcock A Leader In The Nashville PHP User Group – Engage In Conversation With Smarter People
A Small Intro.. In this edition I talked with Taylor Otwell {@taylorotwell}, the man behind Laravel (created in April of 2011) which is a PHP 5.3+ Framework. Taylor is a .NET developer who specializes in elegant, intuitive software. The fact that he comes from a .NET background and he produces such an excellent, solid PHP… Read more PHP Interview With Taylor Otwell The Creator Of Laravel PHP 5.3 Framework – Learn Good Design Patterns
[contentblock id=300squaretextlink] [contentblock id=300squareimagelink] What I Was Trying To Do I needed to do an Update Select using MySQL, I was expecting it to be something like: UPDATE MyTable SET HitCount = ( SELECT sp.HitCount+1 FROM MyTable sp WHERE sp.email = ‘test@email.com’ ) WHERE email = ‘test@email.com’ Error Message I Got Unfortunately, that returned the… Read more MySQL + UPDATE SELECT Statement + #1093 – You can’t specify target table for update in FROM clause
A Small Intro.. In this edition I talked with Davey Shafik (@dshafik), who is one of the Founding Contributor of PHP Zend Framework. He has been a co-author of several prominent books, namely: php|architect’s PHP 5 Zend Certification Study Guide, PHP Master: Write Cutting Edge Code, The PHP Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks.… Read more PHP Interview With Davey Shafik The Original Author Of PHAR (The PHP Archive) – The Best Thing About PHP Is The Community
A Small Intro.. In this edition I talked with Chris Cornutt, the Hero Behind PHPdeveloper.org. If you are a PHP fan and you haven’t heard about @phpdeveloper and @enygma, it’s just like you are a manga fan without having ever heard of Goldorak (Grendizer in english) and Actarus (Duke Fleed in english)! If this is… Read more PHP Interview With Chris Cornutt The Hero Behind PHPdeveloper.org – Don’t Ever Stop Learning
A Small Intro.. In this edition I talked with Rafael Dohms ( @rdohms ), The Brazilian PHP Evangelist. He is to the PHP Community and specially to The Brazilian PHP Community, what Brazilian Ronaldo is to the Football World! He has founded two PHP user-groups and is seen as an AWESOME active member of the… Read more PHP Interview With Rafael Dohms The Brazilian PHP Evangelist – To Really Learn Go Outside Your Comfort Zone Try New Technologies New Frameworks
A Small Intro.. In this edition I talked with Sebastian Marek, who is Software Architect at Plusnet (@plusnet) which is a Sheffield-based ISP. He is passionate about Continuous Integration (CI), process automation and everything that concerns “high quality code”. Sebastian is yet another faithful and helpful Knight of The PHP Community and has contributed much… Read more PHP Interview With Sebastian Marek Software Architect at Plusnet A Sheffield based ISP – Learn From The Best And Don’t Take Shortcuts
A Small Intro.. In this edition I talked with Lorna Jane Mitchell, the Project Lead of Joind.in – built with PHP and proud to be Open-Source. She is the first female PHP programmer (#phpwomen) I’m interviewing on 7php.com and this makes it a special one. Lorna is a highly respected and highly looked-upon PHPer in… Read more PHP Interview With Lorna Jane Mitchell The Project Lead Of Joind.in – Get started! Stop reading! Start doing!
A Small Intro.. In this edition I talked with Stuart Herbert (@stuherbert), a highly highly and highly experienced software engineer. His interview is packed with insights and experienced thoughts. Herbert is one of those rare experienced geek who also teaches the principles of T’ai Chi Ch’uan. Stuart has been involved in almost everything out there… Read more PHP Interview With Stuart Herbert The Lead Engineer Of Phix for PHP – Become A Software Archaeologist
A Small Intro.. In this edition, I talked with Amit Kumar Singh The founder of AmiWorks. Amit (@onlyphp) is a very passionate developer and has been the organizer of the Biggest Un-Conference In Pune in 2008. Following this success, he founded PHPCamp.org. He was the guy who coined the famous “Pune Effect” in India. I… Read more PHP Interview With Amit Singh Organizer Of The Biggest Un-Conference In Pune For Indian PHP developers – If Everything Is An Experiment You Cannot Fail
A Small Intro.. In this edition I talked with Chris Hartjes (@grmpyprogrammer), the co-organizer of the GTA PHP User Group (@gtaphp). Chris is a real Grumpy PHP Programmer! But grumpy in a very positive sense though. He focuses his effort in applying and transcending his best practice ideals with the codes he write. I would… Read more PHP Interview With Chris Hartjes The Grumpy Programmer Of The PHP Community
A Small Intro.. Photograph by Rob Allen In this edition I talked with Cal Evans, the Icon Of The PHP Community. He is to the PHP Community what Pelé is to the Football world, just to tell you about the influence he has on the PHP world. He shares, helps, mentors, propagates PHP wherever and… Read more Interview With Cal Evans The Icon Of The PHP Community
A Small Intro.. Photograph by Jelmer de Haas In this edition I talked with Ivo Jansch (@ijansch) ex-CTO of Ibuildings which is one of the biggest PHP service companies in Europe. Ivo is known for his involvement in evangelising the use of PHP technology in enterprise environments. He is also the PHP 5.x Certification Advisory… Read more PHP Interview With Ivo Jansch Founder & CEO of Mobile Technology Egeniq.com – Use A PHP Framework So You Don’t Re-Invent The Wheel
A Small Intro.. In this edition, I talked with Stefan Koopmanschap (@skoop) who was the co-founder of the Dutch PHP usergroup phpGG which merged with the PHPBelgium usergroup to form the PHPBenelux usergroup (Note that he is no more active @phpGG). Stefan is currently part of the events team of PFZ.nl, which is a PHP/web development… Read more PHP Interview With Stefan Koopmanschap Symfony Community Manager – Don’t Be Shy To Ask Others For Help
A Small Intro.. In this edition, I talked with Michelangelo van Dam a senior PHP/Zend Framework consultant. This man really needs no introduction; he is so much of an invaluable asset to the PHP community. At the time of this writing, as per wefollow.com, he is ranked as the 4th (out of 113) most influential person… Read more PHP Interview With Michelangelo van Dam President Of PHPBenelux PHP User Group – Give And Expect Nothing In Return
A Small Intro.. In this edition, I talked with Enrico Zimuel a computer geek since he was 9yrs old. He has written a couple of books namely “Secrets, Spies and Cipher Codes” published by Apogeo in 1999 and the recent “How to use the digital sign” published by Tecniche Nuove in 2010. Enrico has a… Read more PHP Interview With Enrico Zimuel Senior Software Engineer At Zend Technologies – Everything Is An Array In PHP
A Small Intro.. In this edition, I talked with Chris Tankersley a Zend PHP 5.3 Certified Engineer who has around 8-9 years programming experience in PHP. I’m impressed with his humbleness. He has not even mentioned his blog where he obviously rambles and grumbles about PHP and his projects. Chris has written a nice article… Read more Interview With Chris Tankersley Founder Of Northwest Ohio PHP Users Group – Any Involvement Is Good Involvement (@Microsoft)
If you’ve read the PHP|Architect Magazine – March 2011 Edition, you have surely enjoyed the nice article by Jason Austin (a PHP developer from Raleigh, NC) titled “Good PHP help is hard to find”. Jason talks about ‘the why‘ and ‘the how‘ to distinguish yourself as a qualified PHP Professional from the crowd. And the… Read more Building Your PHP Geek Cred To Publicly Be An Awesome PHP Developer
ASSUMPTIONS: I’m expecting only 1 row of data for the fetch-ing I need the fetched-data to be in the form of an stdClass object You are familiar with using PDO – PHP Data Objects This PDO error typically occurs when you try to fetch data into an stdClass object by using fetchAll() By definition fetchAll… Read more PHP + PDO + FETCH_OBJ Issue + Notice: Trying to get property of non-object
[contentblock id=300squaretextlink] [contentblock id=300squareimagelink] The Sessions Bonanza By default sessions are stored on the disk your server, you can find out the path by echo-ing for the attribute session.save_path: echo ini_get( “session.save_path” ); (You can change that path in php.ini) PHP Sessions are destroyed automatically when you close your browser. But what if you want… Read more PHP 5.3 + How To Completely Destroy Session Variables In PHP
Assumptions: You are using a linux distro, in my instance I’m using Linux Mint, but this is applicable to any deb-based linux for example Ubuntu or Debian You’ve installed your LAMP stack ‘raw-ly‘ This issue reported here is NOT applicable to a XAMPP installation, since in xampp the ‘normal’ way of configuring xdebug works fine… Read more Linux Mint + Netbeans + xdebug Issue Not Loaded in php.ini
Assumption: You are using a linux distro, in my instance I’m using Linux Mint, but this is applicable to any deb-based linux for example Ubuntu or Debian You already have a version of Netbeans installed on your machine – (click on the following link if you wanted the How To Install Netbeans Part) The uninstall… Read more Linux Mint + How To Uninstall Netbeans Fast & Simple Via Bash Shell
Today I need to download a version of VM Player. I was confused as to what version I should download for my system. The last time I installed my Linux Mint Julia 10 was so long time ago and I have forgotten what version I installed. I have found the following to be useful in… Read more Linux Mint + How To Know which Version You Are Running (Including 32bit or 64bit)
Assumptions: You know how to setup your LAMP stack and any related Apache setups to run a website You know how to use phpMyAdmin or any other MySql query browser We are setting this up in a LOCAL environment and we are not bothering about any security or good practice scenarios Step by Step Of… Read more How To Install A Fresh MantisBT – OpenSource Bug Tracker
A platform change decision comes down to how much value you get (or the cost of not changing) vs. the cost of the change. For most people the cost of switching to HTML5 will be trivial, so the long-term benefit of merely being ready to use more features is enough payoff…
Netbeans 6.9.1 Auto Completion Freezing While using Netbeans 6.9.1 on linux, I frequently encountered the frustration of seeing the IDE freeze on auto-completing classes, specially when using PHP 5.3 / Namespace structuring. I have googled a lot about it and have not come across any solution for this and the version 6.9.1 has no updates… Read more Linux + Netbeans 6.9.1 Issue + AutoCompletion Freezing Each Time For NameSpace\Class
Assumptions: => You are running a Linux-based system – this guide is mostly targeted at debian based systems like ubuntu, linux mint or debian itself..etc => You have installed Xampp at the following path: /opt/lampp/ (if you have it somewhere else, use your path) => You are familiar with the bash terminal or a linux… Read more Linux + How To Install And Configure Suhosin As A Xampp Extension
[contentblock id=300squaretextlink] [contentblock id=300squareimagelink] To install APC (APC caching extension) for Xampp on your Linux Mint or Ubuntu distro, just follow the steps below: # cd apc (to your apc folder you just extracted) # sudo /opt/lampp/bin/phpize # ./configure –enable-apc –with-apxs –with-php-config=/opt/lampp/bin/php-config # make # sudo make install Next Step is to edit you php.ini… Read more Linux Mint + How To Install APC And Configure APC On Xampp – APC caching extension
This yet another phpize error might happen when you run phpize to install an extension to Xampp. If your bash terminal complains about the error: “Cannot find autoconf. Please check your autoconf installation and the $PHP_AUTOCONF environment variable“, then it possibly means that you do not have autoconf installed on your machine. How To Know… Read more Linux Mint + Xampp + phpize + Cannot find autoconf. Please check your autoconf installation and the $PHP_AUTOCONF environment variable
When you executed phpize to install an extension on xampp, you got a xampp error. The error was similar to grep: /opt/lampp/include/php/main/php.h: No Such File Or Directory. Solution is to install xampp-devel package.
What is The Maximum Length Limit Of An Email Address. That restriction in RFC 2821 on the length of an address in MAIL and RCPT commands is 254 characters according to Dominic Sayers.
If you are trying to establish a connection handle by using PDO, you might have encountered this error: Warning: PDO::__construct() : Invalid argument (trying to connect via unix://)
This is a simple step by step guide to how to install netbeans IDE from source on Linux Mint 10 Julia. It is assumed that we will not be using ‘apt-get’ or the Synaptic Package Manager.
PHP releases have always been done spontaneously, in a somehow chaotic way. Individual(s) decided when a release will happen and what could or could fit in. Release managers role are unclear and the way to nominate them is not clearly defined either.
The goals of this RFC aim to solve these issues while giving to us, our users and 3rd parties (distributions, contributors, etc.) more visibility and the ability to actually have a roadmap, or plan developments…
WordPress, in head-to-head voting against Joomla and Drupal, has won this year’s Open Source CMS Hall of Fame award.
This Article is a glance at how the singleton design pattern can be implemented in a PHP context. Other aspects of this pattern is also discussed, for e.g pros and cons.
Wordpress announces end of life for PHP 4 and MySQL 4. One of the main success of Wordpress was its ability to run in almost any web host whether or not the PHP and MySQL version were outdated. This flexibility finally ends here.
Happy 15th Birthday PHP. It was first called as Personal Home Page.
Business goals change so fast due to the rapid evolving nature of the Internet’s ecosystem, to understand the relevance of business goals in software architectures with respect to the PHP ecosystem, Periklis Tsirakidis and Johann-Peter Hartmann of MayFlower carried out a survey..
Tom Scott has designed a new app called Facebook Evill app to show how much easy it is to get user’s phone number despite setting the privacy accordingly on facebook Privacy settings..
“We have heard the feedback. There needs to be a simpler way to control your information. In the coming weeks, we will add privacy controls that are much simpler to use. We will also give you an easy way to turn off all third-party services.”
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has admitted that the company “made a bunch of mistakes” and wants to “get this stuff right this time”
Despite Promises to preserve your personal details, Social systems like Facebook & MySpace have been sending data to advertising companies. You wouldn’t expect Facebook’s advertisers to learn who you are. After all, Facebook’s privacy policy and blog posts promise not to share user data with advertisers except when users grant specific permission.
Distracting beach babes videos could be the source of a possible malware attack on facebook. Do not get swayed by this sexy babes video, be alert!
The PHP Company Zend Technologies receives a massive $9 million in venture by Greylock Partners with participation from other Zend investors
Analysis Of The Holasionweb And Zettapetta Malware At GoDaddy. This is an observation carried out by Kevin Reville to arrive at the conclusion of a malware attack triggered remotely.
After the previous episode of Mass Zettapetta malware infection on PHP based websites, this time the malware changes platform to point to holasionweb.com
Did You Read Twitter Was Hacked? It Was More Likely A Twitter Hack To Prevent Mike Melanson From Accepting @jesus ! This article presents the difference between a hack and been hacked.
I have just been informed by the WPSecurityLock Team that the just announced Twitter ‘Force Follow’ Bug was infact resulting from a hacking attempt on Twitter’s system by #TurkishHacker.
There is a bug on Twitter which let’s any user to force anyone follow them. Twitter says to solve this bug, they had to put offline the Following/Followers count module offline.
It has come to my attention that during the last few days, as from 7 May 2010, there has been a mass attack to websites powered by wordpress. But most of those attacks came on to webmasters who were hosted by BlueHost and GoDaddy.
How To Change The Path Of Uploading File In WordPress. This article presents the simple steps with screenshots of how to change the default upload file path of wordpress to a path of your choice.
If you are a full time employee or if you are among those people to get paid to do a job for X, then you have surely hit yourself across the wall of frustration at some point, at least once. Well, I have..
{This article highlights concepts in understanding what motivates an employee.}
Facebook Has Been 7PHPed. Facebook The first Social Media to acquire the maximum number of users in a record time. A record number of 200 Million users in a record time of less than 1 yr, impressive!
I’m sure you have noticed that for the 4 possible errors related to WordPress and MySQL, the error message is still the same. But as a web developer, when your system in on local development phase, you would surely want to get precise error messages.
While installing your wordpress package, you might often have seen errors like “Error establishing a database connection”. There four possible causes to this error.
Chrome Has Been 7PHPed – Chrome The First Browser To Include Native Flash Support.
Yesterday, I mentioned in my post Do You Want To Quote Tweets Just Like Embedding A YouTube Video? that Twitter will announce this surprise today (4th May 2010). Voila! It’s done! Continue to read to know the steps involved..
If you a Twitter user, you have definitely come across some worthwhile tweets that you would want to quote somewhere on the net or on your own blog. Some of you had surely done it with some few not-so-comfortable copy and paste or a painstaking image shot. But the problem with these 2 approaches are…
WordCamp San Francisco 2010 is currently taking place, from the 1st May 2010 to 4th May 2010. Here’s two worthwhile videos of the event on the 1st and 2nd May.
This article is focused on the effect of Apple’s new section 3.3.1 policy and open anti-Flash letter; the Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) have gathered to negotiate an antitrust inquiry into Apple’s new policy of requiring software developers who devise applications for Apple’s devices, like iPhone, iPad..etc
One Million iPads Sold In 28 Days. Apple confirms that this is another milestone achieved prior to the one with iPhone. You will also get a glance of the special characteristics offered by iPad.
This article describes and list the reasons of why Steve Jobs has not adopt Flash in it’s major developments like iPhone..etc This ‘open-letter’ was addressed by Steve following criticism from Adobe.
This article is about my remarks and comments on the screencast of Jon Lebensold which talks on How To Setup Zend_Tool In Your PHP Zend Framework Application. I also list the quick steps to allow you to achieve this without viewing the video.
PHP Is Simply Effective. Simple To Learn, Simple To Write, Simple To Read And Simple To Debug. What more to it do people need to be convinced that PHP is at the top, among other rockstars?
This is a proposed solution to the current SAVANT3 __toString issue. The common error thrown is Fatal error: Method Savant3::__tostring() cannot take arguments
Ah, KISS.. life is just better with the simple action of a KISS. Do you KISS? I must admit that in the beginning it’s not something straight forward. But once you taste it’s positive aspect, it’s just magical.
You have most probably been close to KISS-ing whenever things appeared stupidly simple to the point that you started to think in a different perspective. “Wow, I should do this more often, it’s amazing how the rest goes on so comfortably well” – that’s the good feeling about KISS.
Hi I’m k.Wasseem and this is my brand new blog. It’s a quite a while now since I wanted to have one and finally after much thought, “my oven” finally baked this one. 😉