Archive for the 'PHP' Category

How to update Apache and PHP on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard

Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard comes with Apache 2.2.6 and PHP 5.2.4 installed but not enabled. In order to enable them, follow this great tutorial here: http://foundationphp.com/tutorials/php_leopard.php.

After I was able to get Apache and PHP working, I noticed PHP didn’t have many extensions enabled. Specifically, I needed cURL, OpenSSL and SOAP extensions to be enabled. In order to enable more extensions, you will need to recompile the PHP 5 module.

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Zend Framework, Google Spreadsheets, and Me

Recently, I was given a simple task to take a set of data and add a row to a Google Spreadsheet daily.

A great thing about the Zend Framework, they have a nice component called Zend_Gdata. Zend_Gdata provides you with classes that interact with Google services. Zend_Gdata_Spreadsheets specifically allows us to interact with Google Spreadsheets easily.

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My current read – PHP 5 Objects, Patterns, and Practice

A quick background of my web development expierience:

I started out as an ASP/VBScript developer. My first project was a small work order application for a computer shop where I worked. In 2001, I moved to the Twin Cities to work on a project my dad and I had started. It was a web based camera solution and the web application was written using ASP/VBScript.

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