If you’re developing on Kohana framework and your server is setup with Apache and FastCGI, you’ll run into some weird trouble regarding URL processing. This is happening because Kohana’s Router class is not looking at the REQUEST_URI key in the $_SERVER global, and gets the PHP_SELF...

Recently I have a brand new stand-alone server for my repositories and other minor thingies. And the challenging thing: moving the repositories from my home desktop computer to this server. My setup was this: I have my home desktop computer that runs Windows XP, and the repositories were stored and managed...

Listing the files in a directory in PHP is as simple as 1 line: $aList = scandir( '/tmp' ); print_r( $aList ); This will retrieve all the files in the specified directory (including “.” and “..”): Array ( [0] => . [1] => .. ...

constant A constant is an identifier (name) for a simple value. As the name suggests, that value cannot change during the execution of the script (except for magic constants, which aren’t actually constants). A constant is case-sensitive by default. By convention, constant identifiers are always...

When I need to develop a fast-growing, flexible and complex management application that needs to be done in a very short time, I use a CodeIgniter - Rapyd “bundle” that I’ve built to work, which can be turned into a really complex application. Actually, I’ve built a complex management...

cssmenumaker.com has quite a few ready-made CSS menus that just need to be copy-pasted in your site. You can choose from drop-down menu, horizontal or vertical menu style and after that, you just copy-paste the code, or you can customize your menu. Menus are usually compatible with Firefox, Internet...

APC is a simple and yet powerful PHP extension that does just that: caching. What for? Suppose you would have some piece of code that fetches some data from a table, and since you don’t use JOIN because you loose scalability, you’ll have to do some more SELECTs, and then format each row to...

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[ This is currently a draft. will format and finish later ] Eclipse all-in-one here: Zend debugger here: http://downloads.zend.com/pdt/server-debugger/ How to allow Zend Debugger and Zend Optimizer to co-exist: http://blog.tigeryao.com/2008/how-to-allow-zend-optimizer-and-zend-debugger-coexist.html XAMPP...

I’ve seen here the shortest xml2array implementation: function xml2array($xml) { $xmlary = array(); $reels = '/<(\w+)\s*([^\/>]*)\s*(?:\/>|>(.*)<\/\s*\\1\s*>)/s’; $reattrs = ‘/(\w+)=(?:”|\’)([^"\']*)(:?”|\’)/’; preg_match_all($reels, $xml,...