Best Practice

Forcing UTF8 connections and character set in MySQL

Posted by admin on May 9, 2012 | Featured | No Comments

In some situations, it may be neccesar to force MySQL server collation and character set to UTF8. As you can’t control all scripts that are connecting to your database( for instance: mysql command line, or mysqldump) For that , open … Read More

Commitment to PHP – new Zend Certified Engineers – ZCE – in our team

Posted by admin on April 20, 2012 | Featured | No Comments

Another 2 of our team members passed the ZCE exam. Now we are 5 🙂 That mean we are really taking PHP into serious , and at least we have good technical skills. Zend Yellow Pages

Using UTF8 charset in DotKernel

Posted by admin on April 7, 2012 | Featured | No Comments

This post refers to DotKernel 1, based on Zend Framework 1. If you are looking for DotKernel 3 or above related posts, go here. In order to use UTF8 encoding in your DotKernel based system, is needed to make some … Read More … Read More

How to Set a Persistent Connection to Database with Zend Framework Zend_Db adapter

Posted by admin on February 16, 2012 | Featured | 1 Comment

This post refers to DotKernel 1, based on Zend Framework 1. If you are looking for DotKernel 3 or above related posts, go here. From time to time, it may be a good idea to have a persistent connection to … Read More

Remote connections to MySQL server on Plesk based servers

Posted by admin on October 18, 2011 | Featured | No Comments

By default, MySql servers on Linux machines where Plesk is installed, have the old_passwords=1 or ON flag. That mean even if you have MySQL 5.5+ version, it still use old style of password storage, pre-mysql 4.1+ If you try to … Read More … Read More

Adding a second caching layer to WURFL in Dotkernel using APC

Posted by Adrian on October 14, 2011 | Featured | No Comments

This post refers to DotKernel 1, based on Zend Framework 1. If you are looking for DotKernel 3 or above related posts, go here. On one of our recent projects that used WURFL, response time was an important factor. Profiling … Read More … Read More

Zend Server 5.5 Quick Setup on Windows

Posted by admin on September 7, 2011 | Featured | 1 Comment

In order to make usable a fresh installation of Zend Server 5.5.0 on Windows 7, and be ready for development , few quick steps are required: … Read More

Tags: zend, zend server, zend server apc, zend server htaccess

Zend_Session usage in DotKernel – Refactor of Dot_Session class

Posted by admin on July 28, 2011 | Featured | No Comments

This post refers to DotKernel 1, based on Zend Framework 1. If you are looking for DotKernel 3 or above related posts, go here. We found a strange behaviour of sessions in one of our project, running DotKernel version 1.5.0 … Read More … Read More

Protecting admin folder with .htaccess in Plesk

Posted by admin on June 15, 2011 | Featured | No Comments

This post refers to DotKernel 1, based on Zend Framework 1. If you are looking for DotKernel 3 or above related posts, go here. In /var/www/vhosts/exampledomain.com/conf/vhost.conf file add this code: AuthType Basic AuthName “My Site Admin” AuthUserFile … Read More

Tags: .htaccess, admin, virtual folders

Golden Rules of Professional PHP Coding

Posted by admin on June 12, 2011 | Featured | 3 Comments

1. Always use in development and in staging highest error reporting level, and display_errors ON: error_reporting(-1); ini_set(‘display_errors’, 1); 2. Fix every warning or notice that occur. 3. Check regularly server’s error_log for notices/warnings 4. Identify any temporary hack with a … Read More