php scripts

On PHPMaster.com today there's a new post from Moshe Teutsch about working with docblock comments in PHP scripts and how to use the phpDocumentor tool to generate the documentation from them.

We are using APC cache very heavily in our projects and during project deployment the cache must be flushed and warmed up.

A common solution to warmup the APC cache is to fetch some special page via HTTP which does the job. The problem with this approach is that it’s not reliable enough when PHP [...]

Xdebug is a very popular PHP extension that helps with debugging and profiling of PHP scripts by providing a lot of valuable debug information. Microsoft WebMatrix is a development tool for building web applications.

When WebMatrix is used to build or modify a PHP-based web application the debugging tasks can be greatly simplified if Xdebug extension is used.

This post explains how to install and use Xdebug extension with WebMatrix.

You’re indubitably familiar with various php scripts that accept an image, and bounding box as parameters, it then resizes the image to fit within the bounding box, returning the output. phpThumb seems to be a popular option.

About a week ago, I was doing some upgrades on my development machine and came across a rather nasty issue when it comes to how .php(s) files are associated with PHP in Apache.

It seems that a number of distros including Gentoo (which is what I was using) are using the following configuration directive to make the PHP module parse PHP files:

<IfModule mod_mime.c>
AddHandler application/x-httpd-php .php
AddHandler application/x-httpd-php-source .phps
</IfModule>


Xdebug 2.1.0beta3 released

Europe/London Saturday, February 27th 2010, 23:57 GMT

I've just released Xdebug 2.1.0beta3 which includes a few crash bugs as well as the issue that headers sent from PHP scripts are not actually set.

bOn the SitePoint PHP blog today there's a new post showing you how to debug applications with FirePHP (an extension of the popular Fireug extension for Firefox).

John Lim has updated his Optimizing PHP article with some new tips on caching data:

New on the Content with Style blog today there's this tutorial looking at full-text searching combining Xapian and PHP to replace the slower full-text methods in something like a MySQL database.

On NETTUTS.com today there's a new post by Dustin Blake with a few simple tips and helpful techniques to locking down and protecting your website with some simple PHP scripts.