Client-server encryption-decryption using Advanced Encryption Algorithm (AES) in client and server is complicated because exactly the same algorithm must be implemented twice: once for client side in JavaScript and once for server side in PHP,C# etc.
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PHP Console is a debugging tool for PHP that writes debug info to Chrome debugging console. It was recently updated to the version 3 and has a lot of new nice features now.
There is a similar debugging tool FirePHP that does the same job with Firefox and FireBug.
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When PEAR installs itself on Windows it places pear.ini file in the system folder c:\Windows by default. Which sometimes needs to be changed after all. And sometimes it is not possible for some reasons (not sure why, probably a bug in PEAR installation scripts) to change this location during the installation. Then we need to change this location when PEAR is already installed and in use.
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There was a PEAR installer go-pear.bat that referred to ./PEAR/go-pear.phar in php versions prior to 5.3 on Windows. But since version 5.3 this installer is absent. Strange enough but official PEAR installation guide still refers to the absent go-pear.bat file. But then it writes about update of PEAR installation by requesting a new go-pear.phar and that is what we should actually do at the beginning.
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The next major php release is 5.6. Here are two new abilities already accepted by php community to be included into language from version 5.6.
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PHP extensions collections
http://windows.php.net/downloads/pecl/releases
https://github.com/stealth35/stealth35.github.com/downloads
http://www.hmelihkara.com/files/php_sqlsrv_55.rar
WinCache – Windows Cache Extension
XCache – binary downloads for Windows
We need to get a list of specific files from a directory.
Say we need to find all *.php files in our c:\inetpub\wwwroot folder. There are a couple of options to do it in PHP: opendir(), glob(), scandir() and RecursiveDirectoryIterator class. If we need to search through subfolders then the simplest solution in my opinion is to use the RecursiveDirectoryIterator class. Continue reading
Use case: As a developer I want to see PHP source code in TeamCity build.
It is quite useful sometimes to observe code that used for build and tests of a project.
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While testing PHP we need sometimes to create a mock for a method with reference parameters. I use returnCallback() from PHPUnit framework to to this. returnCallback() will call a function that imitates functionality of the original method. The original method can be either public or protected.
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We need to iterate date and time between two predefined time moments with a predefined time step.
For example 30 minutes step
$start = new \DateTime(...);
$end = new \DateTime(...);
for ($temp=$start; $temp<=$end; $temp->add(new \DateInterval('PT30M')))
{..}
1 day step
for ($temp=$start; $temp<=$end; $temp->add(new \DateInterval('P1D')))
{..}