Best Practice

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 related posts, go here. In order to use UTF8 encoding in your DotKernel based system, is needed to make some changes in … 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 related posts, go here. From time to time, it may be a good idea to have a persistent connection to database. The … 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 related posts, go here. On one of our recent projects that used WURFL, response time was an important factor. Profiling revealed that … 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 related posts, go here. We found a strange behaviour of sessions in one of our project, running DotKernel version 1.5.0 Similar to … 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 related posts, go here. In /var/www/vhosts/exampledomain.com/conf/vhost.conf file add this code: AuthType Basic AuthName “My Site Admin” AuthUserFile /var/www/vhosts/exampledomain.com/conf/.htpasswd Require … 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

SVN Export in a virtual host

Posted by Adrian on May 30, 2011 | Featured | No Comments

The following commands should be run in the terminal (for example, using Putty in Windows) on the host where you want to export the repository). It’s recommended that you run them using the domain’s user, not root. … Read More