PHP
Very long list of PHP frameworks
May 13th
Here’s a quick little rant before I post the link to the long list of frameworks…
Just a few months ago I was looking at frameworks. I had thrown myself in the fire of a PHP project and it’s really something that I’d never done from start to finish.
I thought using a framework would help me out a bit since this was to be my first “start to finish” PHP app. After looking at a few frameworks on really stuck out to me.
I’d been a bit familiar with MVC type frameworks from using Model-Glue in ColdFusion development and after using it in a couple of different projects I generally liked using an MVC framework.
So today, I’m just reading through me RSS reader and I found this blog post which was linked… this is a list of 79 PHP frameworks. I certainly would not have looked at all the options on that list….. and I still wouldn’t consider going through so many.
To link that long list with the few paragraphs above…. for that PHP project that I mention… well I had settled on number 7 on that list. Kohana.
Finding some help debugging Drupal (and PHP)
May 5th
I’m very thankful for the internet. Actually, if it weren’t for the very existence of the internet… I suppose I wouldn’t encounter half the challenges and problems that I do…. in code of course.
I come from a Web development background and for the better part of the last 9 years I’ve spent countless hours reading through ColdFusion code (mostly). In 2010 so far, almost every job I’ve done has involved PHP in some form or another. If it was adding a feature to a previously coded site.. or building a site from scratch (it was direct requirements!)…. this year it’s been PHP.
I’ve been learning in 2010. On many levels actually.
So here I am reading through drupal code, learning how things are organized and where methods are calling other methods… still getting familiar with reading the code. I programmed a plugin for a Drupal module and everything was going well. Then after adding some processing to a form with file upload I had a problem. After submitting the form, it was a blank screen.
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Kohana 404 errors
Mar 11th
I was putting a site on a production server today and found some very strange errors. At least, I thought they were a bit strange.
The Server is Windows 2003 and IIS6. This is a leased server… leased by a small business I sometimes do work for.
In the development environment I had running, it was a XAMPP set up that used Apache. I knew there could be some slight differences. But MySQL and PHP were very similar releases.
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Developing new skills
Feb 13th
At the end of 2009 I really wasn’t sure what direction I was going in anymore.
Being primarily self-employed for the previous year and a half and a total of 4 years of the last 6 I was feeling burnt out.
I had begun to consider looking for full time employment but had found that the opportunities were few and far between for “the job” that I would have liked to land.
You see, for the last 9 years I’ve worked primarily with ColdFusion. Working with ColdFusion has always been a joy and it continues to be my first love.
But unfortunately the job opportunities weren’t plentyful.
So what does a guy do??
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