Blog posts tagged with php
Heard in the Community (2010.07.25)
"Heard in the Community" series aims to wrap up news from the PHP, symfony and other communities I find interesting and follow.
PostgreSQL installation in Ubuntu 10.04
PostgreSQL is a powerful and reliable object-relational database system. It's a great alternative for MySQL. It is as easy to set up, performs better and offers far more features.
MySQL installation in Ubuntu 10.04
MySQL is one of the most popular relational database systems which is widely used with PHP applications. It's relatively easy to set up and use. Here's a quick guide of how to install and configure MySQL in the newest release of Ubuntu.
Reply to PHP 5.3 and the Future
Mark Evans wrote on his blog interesting post about PHP 5.3 and the Future. I guess the main concern here is similar we used to have with PHP4 to PHP5 migration (GoPHP5 campaign). Mark raised three questions to the community which I'd like to reply to.
Jumping to a class, function and variable definitions in vim with exuberant ctags
Exuberant ctags make it possible to jump to the definition of a class, method, variable and any other language object in vim. Tool is able to generate an index file (a.k.a tag file) for one of 41 supported programming languages. Index can be used by editors like vim to quickly find related keyword.
Setting up a PHP development environment with nginx on Ubuntu 10.04
Nginx is a lightweight http, proxy and load balancing server. It's a serious alternative for a widely used apache. Most important advantages of nginx on a production environments are speed and small amount of memory it uses. In a development environment I really like the simple and flexible configuration. Here's a guide how to quickly prepare PHP development environment with nginx on Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx).
Symphony CMS on nginx
I decided to give a Symphony CMS a try because of its XSLT templating system and structured approach in creating websites. As most of PHP applications it's running on apache out of the box. Since I preffer using nginx I've encountered small problems with the configuration.
Using SimpleXML with sfWebBrowser to parse html documents
sfWebBrowser is a class that emulates browser calls. It gives us nice object oriented interface to navigate through document structure in a programmed way. It can return response as SimpleXML which enables us to use xpath queries on the document being parsed. Unfortunately html pages are hardly ever XML valid documents. That's why in most cases sfWebBrowser rather throws and exception than returns something. Here is how we can write a workaround for it.
