Archive for the ‘PHP’ Category

People work with WS-* web services in PHP? Why?


I'd love to give ws02 a fair shake because they have an open source business model. They have a web services framework for PHP which seems interesting from an academic standpoint. But I think WS-* web services are WAY too complicated when compared to REST. Just look at this ...

Open source twitter clone anyone?


Does anyone know of an open source twitter clone?  Preferably in PHP or Python.  Not a client mind you, but the server guts of receiving IMs and doing something with them, enabling followers, public viewing, etc.  I want to implement this on an intranet inside a corp network and obviously ...

Is Microsoft buying Facebook a good thing for PHP?


Microsoft is buying a piece of Facebook. What do we all think this means for PHP since Facebook is one of the "web 2.0" leaders built on PHP? The way I see it, here are the options: Facebook continues on its merry path, taking only funding from Microsoft Facebook ...

Zend Studio for Eclipse Beta


As my part time job (for no pay) is spent being a shill for Zend, I thought I'd mention that the new Zend Studio for Eclipse Beta is out and ready to be test driven. I've got a few deadlines both professional and personal to take care of over ...

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 ...

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 ...

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