Notes In The Margin » php

When attempting to build PHP 5.3.6 on OSX (Snow Leopard) I got warnings about iconv, which I had installed via ports. Undefined symbols: "_iconv_close", referenced from: __php_iconv_strlen in ico...

https://drbacchus.com/quick-note-iconv-and-building-php-on-osx/

I attended TekX in Chicago last week. I’ve been attending tek for (I think) four years now, and it’s consistently the best conference I do all year. It’s pretty much the only conference whe...

https://drbacchus.com/tekx-1/

For the last five years, roughly, I’ve been doing PHP programming, gradually forgetting the Perl that I knew, except when I wished PHP would do something that Perl makes easy. One particular sy...

https://drbacchus.com/back-to-perl/

When I was a Perl programmer, I was a strong believer in testing. I wrote tests before I wrote functions. I wrote tests before I fixed bugs. I ran the test suite every time before I committed cha...

https://drbacchus.com/unit-testing-a-good-habit-lost/

Packt recently sent me a copy of the book “PHP Programming with PEAR” to review. I rather wish they hadn’t, because it faces me with the dilemma of having to post a really negative review o...

https://drbacchus.com/review-php-programming-with-pear-packt/

As I’ve mentioned before, we’re using CakePHP for our development at work. Cake was the first formal MVC framework that I’d worked with, although at Asbury we had developed an MVC framework...

https://drbacchus.com/cakephp-application-development/

I’m looking for a PHP programmer looking for an challenging position in the Lexington area. Our code uses the Cake PHP framework, and we’ve got several projects with a certain amount of share...

https://drbacchus.com/come-work-for-me-1/

I saw Yoav’s blog entry on Tidy and for a brief moment, in the first paragraph, thought that there was actually a phptidy utility. Alas, it was not to be. Perl has had perltidy for some time, a...

https://drbacchus.com/tidy-and-php/

After many years of saying “I really should take a look at CakePHP”, I’m finally doing something useful in it. And it’s marvelous. What’s fascinating to me about shiny new technology li...

https://drbacchus.com/cake/

We use Plug n Pay at $work to conduct our financial transactions. It’s a great service, but the example code that they provide for PHP and Perl developers leaves something to be desired. I spok...

https://drbacchus.com/using-the-plug-n-pay-api-from-php/