I’m sure you’ve all used or at least heard of New Relic application monitoring tool. If you haven’t, you’ve been living in a cave for the last couple of years 🙂 It’s a great tool for pinpointing bottlenecks in your application. However, most people have this tool installed on their production systems only. What if […]
Testing is a hot subject in the PHP world. It is not because testing hasn’t been around for eons, but more because the community is still pretty reluctant to accept it, and use in each and every project they may encounter. Main reasons for that might be that the adoption of newer PHP versions are […]
I’ve been working with Nginx web server for a while now. I have to say it’s an impressive web server that performs really well on high traffic websites. I’m in the process of migrating all my sites from Apache to Nginx. I am about 80% there after migrating WordPress and Joomla sites to Nginx without […]
If you have a WordPress website that is live and don’t have it set up locally on your computer or laptop, you’re doing it wrong. To install WordPress on your local machine is a breeze. Why should you install WordPress on your local machine before running it on production? If you have a WordPress site, […]
Almost every site I build requires WordPress login / logout functionality and I haven’t been able to find a standard way of adding a login/logout link to the primary menu of my theme. I wrote this little filter that works like a charm and what I really really like about it is that when user […]
I don’t know if I’ve mentioned this before, but WordPress has become my favourite open source tool ever. There is very little that you can’t do with it. I like how you can hook into almost any core WordPress functionality and last night I had to modify the??wordpress login widget. The problem I solved was […]
I had some trouble compiling pcntl PHP module on OS X Lion so I thought I’d share this solution. In fact, you can use these steps to compile any other PHP module. First download the latest php source from PHP.NET cd into your php src directory, then: cd ext/pcntl phpize ./configure --enable-pcntl When I ran […]
I tried uploading a large file from Flash to php back end and got the following error: PHP Warning: POST Content-Length of 18348279 bytes exceeds the limit of 8388608 bytes It’s self explanatory, my PHP installation by default only allows up to 8MB of data to be uploaded to the server. To solve this you […]
Following my post on?Zen Cart friendly URLs, I would now like to give?VirtueMart?some love. I’ve been looking for ways to export Categories and Products from?Zen Cart?and bulk insert them into VirtueMart.? Wishful thinking? That’s what I thought after googling for a solution and couldn’t find anything that’s convincing and, of course, free. This motivated me […]
I’ve been exploring Zen Cart shopping cart for a long time and one thing that, I thought, needed improvement was the support for friendly URLs.?Ultimate SEO URLs?break my site and I needed another solution. I found this little beauty called?Simple SEO URL?and it works beautifully.? It’s a little tricky to set up, but it’s worth […]