PHP does not have any SMTP authentication mechanism in its configuration, and most developer opt for PEAR packages to perform email sending via custom ports and SMTP authentication. I am one of those who will avoid using external packages as much as possible unless really necessary, and of course because I wanted a quick solution [...]

It has been a while since I posted something technical so here goes. This article is meant for someone who has done PHP development before, and already has a web server and a working PHP installation. Traditionally in the old days these are the things that I do to debug my PHP code: Put in [...]

In April I wrote about Eclipse PDT, Zend Framework, PHPUnit. AVNet Labs have executed a comprehensive benchmark against popular PHP Frameworks. It looks like they are also using Zend Framework for their development. I’ll stay with Zend as well, because I believe in vendor-product compatibility. I will not ask for support from Adobe if I [...]

I am currently in love and coding some personal projects using Eclipse PDT with the Zend Framework as foundation. Unit testing is accomplished using PHPUnit. I love the ability of Eclipse to be extended with plugins so that I can have intelligent code completion and integrated subversion client. To my surprise, Eclipse runs very well [...]

Just a short sharing note, for users of CentOS 4.5 who is looking to update PHP to version 5 instead of the default 4.3.9 there is a clean and easy way to upgrade your PHP. Open up /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo and look for the section centosplus: [centosplus] name=CentOS-$releasever – Plus mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/… #baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/… gpgcheck=1 enabled=0 gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-centos4 priority=2 protect=1 [...]

PHP 4 will finally reached its end of life on December 31, 2007. However critical security fixes will be made available until August 8, 2008. This is a good time to revise your codes, to see whether they will run without any glitches in PHP 5. That first, then when doing any code upgrades or [...]