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PHP Copy and Paste detection tool installation

2012-10-10T02:17:00.001-07:00

In order to install it you will need to: 1. Upgrade to latest PHPUnit 3.7 2. Install https://github.com/theseer/fDOMDocument (see instructions inside) 3. Install https://github.com/sebastianbergmann/phpcpd (see instructions inside) Then you can run it like: $ phpcpd /path/to/project/directory You will see the copy&paste report: Found 3 exact clones with 53 duplicated lines in 5 files: -

Easy start with Jenkins for PHP developer

2012-06-10T10:39:00.000-07:00

Lets look into the quick and minimal Jenkins setup for middle sized fast growing PHP project. In order to easy follow this article you should at least: have PEAR installed on server use phpUnit for unit tests build your app with Phing Install Jenkins according to the operation system you have. On my Ubuntu 12.04 LTS its only four CLI commands: # wget -q -O - http://pkg.jenkins-ci.org/

Drupal produces warnings with file_check_directory() on low bootstrap levels

2012-05-16T03:40:00.000-07:00

I've found interesting issue with file_check_directory() in Drupal. It generates errors like: Warning: array_key_exists() [function.array-key-exists]: The second argument should be either an array or an object in /.../public_html/includes/module.inc on line 245 With back trace like: 30.06424656960 file_check_directory( )../mycustom-script.php:90 40.06434657840 t( )../file.inc:114

Convert OpenSSH keys to Putty on Linux with puttygen

2012-04-06T07:03:00.001-07:00

If you need a Putty ppk key on Linux when you don't have Windows installation, for example when using Windows application that requires ppk-key under Wine. You can use "puttygen" CLI tool in that case. On Ubuntu: # apt-get install putty-tools $ cd ~/.ssh/ $ puttygen id_dsa -o id_dsa.ppk Make sure you've replaced the "id_dsa" with your private key filename. Profit!

Xdebug PHP scipts profiling examples

2012-02-09T02:08:00.000-08:00

Look at this presentation to become familiar with PHP profiling: http://www.slideshare.net/samkeen/profiling-php-with-xdebug-webgrind And also look into this article for more details: http://devzone.zend.com/article/2899 Edit PHP.ini and add the line: xdebug.profiler_enable = 1 Restart the Apache and you will find the profiling dumps in /tmp/ . The format of those files is "Cachegrind

PHP debug process internals with xdebug

2012-02-09T02:06:00.001-08:00

Xdebug debugger allows you to interactively walk through script execution and inspect the call traces and variable values in each appropriate scope. Debugger client listens on 9000 port by default. Browser initiates regular HTTP request to 80 port indicating that debug session should be started (by parameter in request URI or cookie) . Debugger starts the debug session and connects

Why install xdebug?

2012-02-09T02:05:00.000-08:00

Even without actual integration with your IDE you are able to get benefit from xdebug on your development machine: overloads var_dump() and beautifies the output turn off "@" operator track headers that are already send by script with header() function xdebug_debug_zval() dumps variables information like ref status & ref counts provides stack traces provides execution /

PHP debug & profiling for dummies

2011-12-21T11:06:00.000-08:00

Sometimes very basic debug can be done by dumping the values of variables. The other method is about writing debug values into log files. Such approaches are hard to be successfully used on large sophisticated projects like Drupal or Magento. In such case the best solution is to use the debugger and debug your code via step by step code execution, back traces, breakpoints, variables scope

Simplest solution to enable PHP mail() function under Ubuntu

2011-10-29T09:49:00.000-07:00

If PHP mail() function doesn't works on your development desktop and your Apache error log shows something like "sh: /usr/sbin/sendmail: not found" - then you obviously need to install "sendmail" in order to fix that :) Just run the following command in Ubuntu: # apt-get install sendmail To configure Sendmail for your needs use (see appropriate configuration scripts in output): #

Preparing Ubuntu Linux desktop for web development

2011-08-14T22:29:00.000-07:00

There are a lot of articles on the Internet about configuring Ubuntu desktop for web developer. I'm using Ubuntu for 3 years already as my working desktop station for web development and want to share my own list of software each web developer should have. So here is just another guide to prepare Ubuntu powered desktop for web development. OS Installation Ubuntu is an easy to use operating

Merge two collections in Magento

2011-03-11T04:14:00.000-08:00

Searched for the way to merge two Magento collections. Here is the interesting approach I've figured out. We can extract SELECT object from both collections and then use UNION to merge the results of these collections. $selectFoo = Mage::getResourceModel('model/foo')->getSelect(); $selectBar= Mage::getResourceModel('model/bar')->getSelect(); $mergedFooBar = $selectFoo->union(array($selectBar));

What if Zend_File_Transfer_Adapter_Http receive() returns false?

2011-03-08T06:17:00.000-08:00

I wasn't able to locale comprehensive information about Zend_File_Transfer_Adapter_Http in Zend Framework documentation during couple hours of debug and digging into Google results. So when I've finally figured out everything then decided to share my experience with others and also have a little note for my self about the architecture of this component. What to do if code example from

Project tracking open source Basecamp-like solutions

2010-12-21T12:52:00.000-08:00

Once upon a time I've asked people on LinkedIn about collaboration software they prefer to manage their business and received a lot of interesting options that were optimal for different needs. But I have my own specific needs, so decided to try only those that meets the following requirements: Open source - to be able to customise the system for our own needs Free of charge - I'm starting new

ZFConf Ukraine 2010 + MageConf Ukraine 2010

2010-11-24T19:12:00.000-08:00

I'm glad to share the information according upcoming greatest web-development event in Eastern Europe. This time we will have double-conference: ZFConf Ukraine 2010 + MageConf Ukraine 2010 that will occur at 27 Nov 2010 in Kyiv, Ukraine. ZFConf Ukraine is the first Ukrainian Zend Framework conference prepared alongside with ZFConf Russia and the zendframework.ru community. Three different

T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM error message in PHP

2010-10-07T10:16:00.000-07:00

I had a trivial task a while ago - to call static method when class name defined dynamically via variable. There were no any need to instantiate class instance to do a simple check if provided class is suitable to work with the current data. So I decided to create a static method that will process a simple check before class instance will be even instantiated. foreach ($dirDataDrivers as $

Running Zend Framework From CLI

2010-09-25T09:16:00.000-07:00

My aim was to crate an easy and simple way of running ZF MVC from command line. Solution should be able to run with any existent application, based on ZF version 1.8 or higher. You should follow the standard zend framework directory placement structure to create your project or use any existent project that follows this structure in order to easy apply all direction from this post. Create a

Zend Server tips and tricks

2009-03-23T10:27:00.000-07:00

Zend Server is a “ready to use” development solution for PHP and Zend Framework developers. It includes Apache + PHP + Zend Optimizer + Zend Debug with Zend Studio debugging integration + Zend Framework pre-installed + some additional staff. Distribution is available for Windows (XP, Vista, 2003, 2008 Servers), Linux (Tarball, RPM, DEB) and Mac OS X. In August 2008 I've joined the project with

Hi! Hello! Welcome!

2007-06-27T07:46:00.000-07:00

Hey, visitor This is the first post to my web development blog. I think this blog will be interested for people that have the same interests that I have. See you soon... Joseph