Archive for the ‘PHP’ Category

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. ...

Book Review of Pro Drupal Development by John K. VanDyk and Matt Westgate, published by Apress


Quite often web developers are faced with having to overcome problems quickly and efficiently without having much background in the problem area. Good tools and good documentation are your best friends in a situation like this. Recently, I was tasked with whipping up a website driven by Drupal ...

Drupal for single hierarchy corporate website


We needed a content management system (CMS) for a website at work for 3 reasons: So the developers could be out of the content maintenance loop. So the developers could be out of the content maintenance loop. So the developers could be out of the content maintenance loop. I remember when I first started ...

Facebook.com opens up facebook platform similar to ning.com


Read about the new developer environment for Facebook.com on cnn.com. I can't tell yet if this is Facebook.com adopting some of the Ning.com philosophy of "create your own social network" or if it's just a giant widget factory on steroids. No longer will Facebook consider itself merely another social network. ...

PHP is not doomed. But perhaps open source development of it is.


Read this today from Jeremy Privett "Is PHP Doomed?"  Internal devs fighting over the future of the language could be construed negatively, but I don't think it matters at all.  Until someone starts talking about forking PHP, I think we're on safe ground. As an outsider, I wonder how much pull ...

How to for SSH, Subversion (SVN), Putty, Tortoise, and Zend Studio 5.x using svn+ssh


Attempting to connect my new Windows machine with Zend Studio 5.1 using svn+ssh to an svn repository on Linux, I am obliged to once again stand on the shoulders of giants that have come before me. Here's some "how tos" that got me through it. Logemann Blog - Subversion / ...

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