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Caught between PHP and Ruby

admin — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 03:58:10 +0000

Am I a PHP Developer? Am I a Ruby Developer? How about, I am a Web Developer.

This is something I have been discussing with various co-workers for some time. Learning Rails over the last couple of years, and now finally having more opportunites to use Rails I find that I have taken a similar path that Derek Sivers outlines in this article (http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2007/09/7_reasons_i_switched_back_to_p_1.html), but I dont see myself abandoning Rails or PHP. I enjoy working in both and they both have their strengths and weaknesses.

I read something on another blog recently that has stuck with me. It read, “If the only tool in your toolbox is a hammer, everything looks like a nail”.

Re-compiling PHP 5 for OS X

admin — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 20:23:50 +0000

This post is intended as a simple reminder for me to help me remember what I did when setting up a new PHP environment… help yourself to my notes, but you’re on your own if it breaks your server.

Here is a breakdown of what to install in what order… jpeg6, gd, libpng, mcrypt, mhash

Build the jpeg6 lib first- ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/jpeg/

I put the tar files in ~/_bin then I unpacked it with

tar -zxf [tarfile]

then moved the dir to /usr/local/php. Then CD into that dir and do the following:

cp /usr/share/libtool/config.sub . cp /usr/share/libtool/config.guess . ./configure --enable-shared make sudo make install

Then you should recompile GD so it will see the new jpg6. Same thing, download GD to the ~/bin and untar it and move the dir to /usr/local/php.

./configure

You should see something like this:

Support for PNG library: yes Support for JPEG library: yes Support for Freetype 2.x library: yes Support for Fontconfig library: yes Support for Xpm library: yes Support for pthreads: yes

Then do this:
make sudo make installl

Now you will need libpng (http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html). Untar it and move it to /usr/local/php

./configure make sudo make install

Now you need freetype and xpm… Im not going to try and figure out fonts so since fonts are already on the system you can use them this way in the config for php in just a few minutes.

–with-freetype-dir=/usr/X11R6 \
–with-xpm-dir=/usr/X11R6 \

Now for mcrypt and mhash. Go here and download the latest version of mcrypt ftp://mcrypt.hellug.gr/pub/crypto/mcrypt/libmcrypt/. Same as the others, untar them and move them to /usr/local/php. CD into that dir then

./configure make sudo make install

And finally mhash. Go here and download it. http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=4286. Again, untar it and move it to /usr/local/php then

./configure make sudo make install

Now you are finally ready to compile PHP.

./configure --with-prefix=/usr \ --with-mandir=/usr/share/man \ --with-infodir=/usr/share/info \ --with-disable-dependency-tracking \ --with-apxs2=/usr/sbin/apxs \ --with-ldap=/usr \ --with-kerberos=/usr \ --with-enable-cli \ --with-gd \ --with-freetype-dir=/usr/X11R6 \ --with-xpm-dir=/usr/X11R6 \ --with-png-dir=/usr/local/lib \ --with-jpeg-dir=/usr/local/bin \ --with-tiff-dir=/usr \ --with-zlib-dir=/usr \ --with-enable-trans-sid \ --with-xml \ --with-enable-exif \ --with-enable-ftp \ --with-enable-mbstring \ --with-enable-mbregex \ --with-enable-dbx \ --with-enable-dbase \ --with-enable-trans-sid \ --with-enable-sockets \ --with-enable-wddx \ --with-enable-bcmath \ --with-iodbc=/usr \ --with-curl=/usr \ --with-config-file-path=/etc \ --with-sysconfdir=/private/etc \ --with-mysqli=/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql_config \ --with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql \ --with-pdo_mysql=/usr/local/mysql \ --with-openssl \ --with-xmlrpc \ --with-xsl=/usr \ --with-mcal=/usr/local/php \ --with-mcrypt=/usr/local/lib \ --with-mhash=/usr/local/lib \ --with-mime-magic \ --with-pear

I was able to run make fine, but when running make test I got an error…. After alot of digging around, I found this helpful post at php.net.

“After screwing around for an hour and screaming many profanities at my computer I looked back at the error and noticed:

/usr/local/mysql/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.15.dylib

Why it was using this path I do not know, but I headslapped when I realised how simple it was! I solved the problem by creating a link called mysql that linked back on itself:

cd /usr/local/mysql/lib
sudo ln -s ./ mysql

Problem solved! I probably should have figured out why it was doing this instead, but this was easier and saved me from allot more frustration.”

This worked for me as well.

PayPal API from GoDaddy

admin — Wed, 21 May 2008 06:31:11 +0000

The PHP SDK form PayPal worked great from my dev server but when I went to load it for the client it either completely stalled or timed out. I learned that GoDaddy has a special proxy server you need to use for the cURL option.

$URL="https://api-3t.sandbox.paypal.com/nvp";
if (isset($_GET["site"])) { $URL = $_GET["site"]; }
$ch = curl_init();
//echo "URL = $URL 
n";
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPPROXYTUNNEL, TRUE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXYTYPE, CURLPROXY_HTTP);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXY,"http://proxy.shr.secureserver.net:3128");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $URL);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 120);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

$nvpreq="METHOD=".urlencode('doDirectPayment')."&VERSION=".urlencode('3.0')."&PWD=".urlencode('yourpass')."&USER=".urlencode('your username)."&SIGNATURE=".urlencode('your signature').$nvpStr;

//setting the nvpreq as POST FIELD to curl
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,$nvpreq);

$response = curl_exec ($ch);

This worked fine for me so i re-created the PayPal Class from their sample code and modified to work with this cURL setting.

Hope it saves you the time I lost.

PayPal GoDaddy Class