Tonite! I'm proudly announcing zoopa. An open source lifestreaming software.
We'll be developing our source and community at - http://zoopa.org - Today I gave you some clues about it. It's community site and first screenshots will be ready soon.We're open for any contribution.
I was thinking about Jon's sweetcron for a while. You know it's a simple lifestream engine made by Jon Yongfook Cockle. Recently I've heard that he stopped it's development cuz of his own business focus.
Since I left the mambo / joomla community before 3-4 years, I was thinking about releasing an open source product.Nowadays I'm modeling smt in my mind. An open source software which's only for lifestream. After you install it in your domain, it posts your data to all social networks (facebook, posterous, tumblr, friendfeed, flickr, youtube etc.) and fetchs all your data from them. Analytics integration, comments, multi user usage, posting via web interface and posting via email. I'm still working on it and before I start to build the community. I'm open for programming contribution to the project. I prefer php,mysql for it. What do you say?由 Packt Publishing 主办的 2009 Open Source CMS Award 日前揭晓，WordPress 获得全场最佳开源 CMS 大奖，祝贺 Matt 和 WordPress 团队！ 奖项分配 全场最佳 CMS (Overall Best Open Source CMS Award) WordPress: $4,000 MODx: $2,000 SilverStripe: $2,000......
The PHP development team would like to announce the immediate
availability of PHP 5.3.1. This release focuses on improving the
stability of the PHP 5.3.x branch with over 100 bug fixes, some of
which are security related. All users are encouraged to upgrade to
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I've been interested in web development / design for over 10 years. I've dabbled, dawdled, played and did a little here and there, but nothing fancy...ever. I know a little HTML, I've gotten much better at CSS, but from there my knowledge terminates. What's missing? PHP, MySQL, ie: server-side programming.
I'm working on a major project that will require an extensive MySQL database with heavy PHP scripts running on all pages of the site. I once took a seminar on MS Access which taught me a little about relational databases, which turns out to be important because that's the 'heart and soul' of MySQL.
I found a book, "PHP in a Nutshell" which I plan to get my hands on soon. I'm hoping this book will help launch me into a whole new world of understanding and website development. My site idea requires a great deal more knowledge and experience than I have currently, so here goes nothing.
I'll post a vague summary of my project in the near future. For now, check out my other project here.
Create
/etc/php.iniand make it writablecd /etc sudo cp php.ini.default php.ini sudo chmod 777 php.iniIn
php.ini, find this line:;date.timezone =Uncomment it and insert your time zone (http://php.net/manual/en/timezones.php)
date.timezone =America/VancouverRestore
php.inipermissionssudo chmod 444 php.iniRestart Apache
sudo apachectl restart
As promised. Hot tip - you should probably avoid Entropy just for now (certainly - they will update it).
For whatever reason - I had a myriad of problems attempting to get it to work with Apache on my new 64 bit machine. Once we switched back to the original Apache PHP5 module, it seemed to work properly.
Working in Web Development means you have to have a development environment installed on your local machine, in order to test and develop dynamic pages, using a web server (Apache,), a database (MySQL) and a scripting language (PHP). There are ways of getting those components installed in a bundle, like WAMP, LAMP or MAMP. But as a developer, you are more the manual type, right? So as I had to go through that installation process recently, this article documents the steps I went through.
Apache
OSX already comes with Apache installed, it is just a matter of starting the server. You can do this if you go to System Preferences > Sharing and check “Web Sharing”. The Apache default page should now be displayed at
Later on, you can use the following commands to start, stop or restart Apache:
$ sudo apachectl start
$ sudo apachectl stop
$ sudo apachectl restart
If you would like to change the DocumentRoot of the server, you need to edit the httpd.conf file:
$ sudo vi /etc/apache2/httpd.conf
In here, you need to change the DocumentRoot setting:
DocumentRoot "/Users/myUser/myNewWebroot/" <Directory "/Users/myUser/myNewWebroot/"> ... </Directory>PHP
PHP comes bundled up with Leopard as well. The important things to know here are where it got installed and where to find the configuration file.
Most likely, it got installed to:
/usr/local/php5The configuration file should be located at:
/private/etc/php.iniYou only need to make sure that Apache knows that PHP is available, so edit httpd.conf:
$ sudo vi /etc/apache2/httpd.confAnd add the following lines (in the appropriate sections, to keep things tidy):
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps
…
LoadModule php5_module libexec/apache2/libphp5.soFinished with that, restart Apache, empty the browser cache and then load a php file for testing if it is correctly interpreted.
MySQL
Download the most recent dmg image from the MySQL site.
Before actually installing MySQL, I found it helps to restart the computer before proceeding with the installation. When running through the installation wizard, MySQL will get installed to:
/usr/local/mysql-VERSIONSo, for example:
/usr/local/mysql-5.0.51b-osx10.5-x86/Also, a symlink should have been created:
/usr/local/mysql -> mysql-5.0.51b-osx10.5-x86You should also install the Preference Pane, which comes with the installation package as MySQL.prefPane
To start MySQL manually, run the following command:
$ sudo /Library/StartupItems/MySQLCOM/MySQLCOM startYou should also add MySQL to $PATH:
$ vi ~/.profile
$ export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/mysql/bin
$ source ~/.profile
To check whether that was successful, run:
$ echo $PATHThe default settings for the root user are:
- Username: root
- Password: [leave blank]
Add-on: PHPmyAdmin
To get PHPmyAdmin installed, which comes in handy for managing your database(s), download the latest package from their download page. Extract that package to a directory somewhere in your DocumentRoot.
Open config.sample.inc.php with an editor of your choice and add the following details for your MySQL installation:
/* * This is needed for cookie based authentication to encrypt password in * cookie */ $cfg['blowfish_secret'] = 'whatever'; /* YOU MUST FILL IN THIS FOR COOKIE AUTH! */ $cfg['Servers'][$i]['user'] = 'root'; $cfg['Servers'][$i]['password'] = ''; // use here your passwordAfter you made those changes, save the file as config.inc.php.
PEAR
PEAR should also already be available on your Mac. The location is probably:
/usr/local/php5/bin/pearIt is a good idea to add the path to PEAR to $PATH, similar to setting the path for MySQL (see above). In addition, upgrade PEAR to the latest version like so:
$ sudo pear channel-update pear.php.net
$ sudo pear upgrade PEAR
Resources
Nice clean "how to" article. I'm looking for a really comprehensive one on Snow Leopard (I'll post it if I find it)- cause getting all this to run yesterday was kind of a pain.
I've been learning the Zend Framework for an upcoming project and have been using this book, Beginning Zend Framework, as a guide. It's informative and clearly written, but some of the example code is broken. The example of customizing views in Chapter 4 is missing some key code, I've pasted it below in hopes of saving someone else the frustration of figuring out what went wrong.
AccountController.php defined('APPLICATION_PATH') || define('APPLICATION_PATH', realpath(dirname(__FILE__))); // Add this to the beginning of your file to define the application path.
Read this great article at http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/php/how-to-create-a-photo-gallery-using-the-flickr-api and learn how to make a photo gallery from your flickr stream in your website.
