Linux, Apache, PHP, MySQL Musings
January 1, 2012 | In: Linux, PHP
While working on a PHP script recently when I stumble upon a nasty bug that leaves only a "Segmentation fault" while preparing statements with Zend_Db_Adapter_Mysqli. Attempting to gdb the same process only results in gibberish like below and nothing...
July 28, 2010 | In: Apache, Linux, PHP
Recently I was working on a script on a fresh virtual server. The script was pulled from a production server and was being actively used. When I try to run it on the test server, it was mysteriously not working, Apache access_log shows 500 HTTP response...
January 23, 2010 | In: Application Security, HTML, PHP
If you ever wonder where that 'StringEquals' validator rule taken as example from the Zend_Filter_Input documentation page results in an error like below, well read again. It was clearly stated as 'hypothetical'. Plugin by name 'StringEquals' was not...
October 2, 2009 | In: Apache, Linux, PHP
I was recently updating ffmpeg-php on one of our servers to the latest SVN release of the 0.6.3 branch. On a 64bit CentOS 5.3 with PHP 5.2.11, the extension compiled and installed fine however Apache will not load it and spit out the error below: PHP...
August 2, 2009 | In: Apache, Certifications, Linux, MySQL, PHP
I have been reading on a number of project management articles lately and trends on open source projects. There seems to be a lot of fellow PHP developers who are as well Linux administrators for many server functions inluding HTTP servers like Apache and...
May 20, 2009 | In: Apache, MySQL, PHP, Server Security
Hosting accounts being compromised has been a common incident, however a sudden surge of this variant is quite alarming. This trojan does not target any particular software or script and is commonly exploited from a users computer where he usually FTP...
In an effort to turn a client's website to be more SEO friendly, they wanted to have all PHP files appear as directories on URLs i.e. http://dotmanila.com/blog/php-cloak-and-force-traling-slash.php will end up as...
March 22, 2009 | In: CSS, HTML, Javascript, PHP
I was recently working on a mailing application. With the nature of the bulk mailing routine, it was designed to store templates made by its users and email designers. Since most of them have been exposed to Smarty templating before we decided to base our...
February 4, 2009 | In: Linux, PHP
There are many examples found on the web on resizing images using PHP while maintaining aspect ratio. However most of them are based on a single maximum dimension i.e. should not exceed a certain size with on either height or width. I have written the...
January 18, 2009 | In: Linux, PHP
I was enjoying playing photofunia.com a while ago when I got interested on how I can implement such a thing with opensource tools, specifically LAMP. In less than a minute, with "php face detection" on Google I found this. The headline does say face...