Archive for 2007

SECURITY ERROR: package in channel “pear.phpunit.de” retrieved another channel’s name for download!


Odd Pear error today. Trying to install PHPUnit3 on a newish server. Following the instructions at the PHPUnit Pocketguide. Here's the steps I did and the error I received. I'm not sure at this point if this is a bug in the Pear installer or if ...

Debug JavaScript in PHP or JSP Pages with Visual Studio 2008


Fresh from my IM, Kirk Allen Evans blog details how to debug javascript for any kind of page in Visual Studio 2008. This has already existed for awhile with the Firebug extension for debugging Javascript in Firefox. But it's nice to have choices. And it's cool if ...

PRADO framework for PHP similar to ASP.NET


For Drew, the .NET fanboy who is just dying to release his app without having to shell out the big bucks for .NET hosting.  The PRADO framework for PHP is almost like ASP.NET.   From the homepage: PRADO is a component-based and event-driven framework. Look at that example on the homepage.  That's ...

Zend Framework, Google APIs, Google Reader issue


I've been playing around with the Zend Framework and the Google API. I'm pretty bummed out that there doesn't seem to be any API for Google Reader. I was hoping to use Zend_GData_Query to suck in my starred and/or shared feeds. You can do this using ...

Unable to find the socket transport “ssl” - did you forget to enable it when you configured PHP?


Ran into this error recently... here's how to fix it, assuming you have OpenSSL already installed on your system.  For OpenSSL your PHP config values look like this: --with-openssl[=DIR]    Include OpenSSL support (requires OpenSSL >= 0.9.6) So, if you've compiled from scratch, you can just recompile adding this flag to your configure ...

Alpha Wordpress Plugin for Delicious with Zend Framework’s Zend_Service_Delicious


I have Wordpress set up on PHP5. While Wordpress is largely a PHP4 entity, I wanted to see if it could play nicely with the Zend Framework, which is a PHP5-only entity. With some careful fiddling, it works pretty well. With my Zend Framework code set up in my ...

To PHP5 or not to PHP5


I consider myself an Open Source Developer but I very rarely develop for the open source community. I create apps for businesses, where I work, and some side projects. I share code with those I work with obviously, but generally not with the PHP community as a whole. ...

Create your own Simpson character


I dub thee Rich Zimpson.  It's scary how similar this is to what I really look like. Make your own at http://www.simpsonsmovie.com/Share this via del.icio.us, digg, email, etc.

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