Fixing PHP OPcache mysql_xdevapi Uncaught Error: Call to a member function limit()
I have Been playing with the X DevApi on MySQL 8. It’s really cool idea and I think I will need to write up about it in the near future. Anyway check it out on PHP Docs, https://www.php.net/manual/en/book.mysql-xdevapi.php and on the MySQL site https://dev.mysql.com/doc/x-devapi-userguide/en/devapi-users-introduction.html.
The New Password Functions Is One Good Reason to Upgrade to PHP5.5
With PHP 5.4 still widely used on production servers and the fact that PHP 5.4 will be end of life in 26 days, I would like to talk about upgrading your PHP to version 5.5 and above. Really we should be upgrading to PHP 5.6 as this is the current stable version.
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Get Traceroue To Work with Iptables
So I was trying to use trace route to diagnose why my some DNS problems but it was timing out.
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Sky Broadband blocks CloudFlare CDN
Recently I had a problem with a clients website timing out for some of their customers. After weeks of wasted bug hunting on server and website, I found the affected customers were using Sky broadband (BSkyB).
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How To Use Zend Tool
Before I continue this series I thought I would discuss Zend Tool. This came about when Matthew Setter who has an excellent blog on Zend Framework at Master Zend Framework tweeted me after I wrote ‘Hello World Part 1’ and asked if I ever use the Zend Tool.
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Turn Wordpress Revisions Off
With Wordpress 3.9 we got post revisions, which looks like can be a good thing if you have many contributors writing the same articles but with just me and me alone I noticed that as I wrote and edited my articles which can take up to a week deepening on the subject, my post revisions were adding up to 30+.
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Building A Zend Framework 2 Application – Hello World Part 3
This is the final part of our ‘Hello World’ series. In ‘Hello WorldPart 2’ we created the Controller, Module classes and set up the module configuration with the ‘ServiceManager’ and the autoloading. Now it’s time to add the views so we can see some results for this. Remember we set up the ‘ViewManager’ in the module configuration, in our ‘template_map’ we made reference to four view scripts now we will create those view files. View Scripts
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Building A Zend Framework 2 Application – Hello World Part 2
In the first part of the ‘Hello World’ app we got to the point of creating our first Zend Framework 2 module. Now it’s time to make this module and see some results for our work.
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Building A Zend Framework 2 Application - Hello World Part 1
So in my last atricle we installed the Zend Framework on Ubuntu Server, now we will use this knowledge to make our first ZF2 app called ‘Hello World’. Not inspiring I know but it will help us to hit the ground running (so to speak).
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Building A Zend Framework 2 Application - Installing Zend Framework
The first part of this tutorial is to install the Zend Framework library. For this tutorial I will be using PHP 5.5, but you could use PHP 5.4 but you should not be using anything less as version 5.3 has entered it’s end of life now. I am also using an Ubuntu Server 14.04 on a virtual machine (VM), the install is a minimum install with only a SSH server installed so I can reach it via putty, or a terminal window.
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Installing and configuring Mcrypt and JSON for PHP 5.5 in Ubuntu
Ok now I have updated my system to Ubuntu 14.04 from 12.04 there has been a few changes, also if installing from scratch then a couple gotchas will hit you namely to do with PHP 5.5. In their wisdom the json extension has been removed from the PHP 5.5 so to fix this we will have to install it. So as we are talking about Mcrypt as well lets do this all at once.
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