PHP
PHP development on Mac – my experience
A while ago I saw a lot of people writing about their PHP development environment and tools. I didn’t get around to it at the time but yesterday I found me some time to write down my experiences of moving from Linux to MacOS X as primary OS for PHP and web development
Me and my [...]
Setting up a new company
In July, after another few months in Spain as a PHP consultant for a European debt collection company, I have been trudging along with my family in Kalmar. I am still doing consultancy work as a PHP developer and mostly for the very same company. It’s a great opportunity to work with PHP in a [...]
Recent activity…
Busy is good – but not being too busy. Recently I feel like I having been a bit too busy. A long time now me and my partner have been working on a new Swedish event guide. Completely written in Zend Framework, using MySQL as database and Sphinx as full text search engine. These tools [...]
Detecting UTF BOM – byte order mark
When integrating systems with many different data sources and systems across Europe you are bound to eventually run in to issues with UTF-8 and national character sets as for example the Swedish ISO-8859-1. Even when parsing simple UTF-8 files with comma separated values things might things might popup to bite you.
One such thing is the [...]
Moving on to php 5.3 and Zend Server CE
I have had some serious issues with one of my servers these last days. But finally things are starting to get back to normal. It seems /var was full due to mysql wreaking havoc for no particular reason. This lead – curiously enough – to network problems. If one of the discs failed because of [...]
Gartner report on PHP
A new Gartner report about PHP – PHP: Past, present and Future is mentioned in the last Zend newsletter. Even though I remain somewhat sceptical towards similar reports it is good to see that even Gartner is catching up. What they say actually do have an impact.
“PHP has been a cornerstone technology on the Web [...]
Adding support for MS SQL Server to PHP in Linux
Adding support for MS SQL Server in PHP is not very difficult. Searching (Google/Bing/whatever) reveals lots of information on how to do this with Windows – naturally – but very little on how to go about it using Linux. Most people use precompiled PHP installations and I will show how to add MS SQL Server [...]
Zend Framework 1.8 Web Application Development review
Packt Publishing sent me a copy of Keith Pope’s Zend Framework 1.8 Web Application Development a while ago. In return they asked me to write what I thought about it. I have had it lying on my desk for a while but haven’t had time to read it more carefully. Nevertheless I have actually used [...]
10 years of English blogging
Even though I’ve lost my earliest blog posts due to an early domain change as well as a later change of blogging software I have been blogging about PHP and web development here for almost 10 years. As it is just over one year since we started our Swedish company Dotvoid AB I felt it [...]
PHP, SOAP and operation signatures
After investigating SOAP further there seems to be a common confusion regarding the difference between rpc/literal and document/literal and how it is handled in PHP. There is even a bug 49169 reported because PHP ext/soap maps all operations defined in the web service with the same signature to the first defined function or method in [...]
