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PHP custom debugging functions

Iman — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 15:40:45 +0000

Here is another debugging helper for Symfony, CodeIgniter, Kohana and Zend frameworks or your applications. Normally you would use var_dump() or print _r() for debugging but dumping the data without xdebug always a pain.

I use these custom functions depending on type of data whether an array or a class to debug my code which makes it more friendly and human-readable.

<?php

function my_print_r ($param, $bool = TRUE) {
    pre( print_r($param, $bool), FALSE);
}

function my_var_dump ($param) {
    pre(var_dump($param));
}

function my_debug ($param) {
    if (is_object($param)) {
        pre('Object: ['.get_class($param). '] => '
           . print_r(array_keys(get_object_vars($param)), TRUE), FALSE);
    }
}

function my_debug_in ($param) {
    if (is_object($param)) {
        pre('Object: [' .get_class($param).' ] => Array', FALSE);
        foreach (get_object_vars($param) as $key) {
            my_debug($key);
        }
    }
    if (is_array($param)) {
        my_print_r($param);
    }
}

function my_class($name = NULL) {
    $class = new ReflectionClass($name);
    my_print_r(Reflection::export($class));
    
}

function pre($param, $bool = TRUE) {
    if (!ini_get('xdebug.default_enable') || !$bool) {
        echo "<pre>".$param ."</pre>\n";
    }else {
        echo $param;
    }
}

?>

Symfony and sfDoctrineGuard missing installation point

Iman — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 13:39:01 +0000

If you are getting the 500 error (Call to undefined method myUser::isAnonymous.) after installing the sfGuardDoctrine plugin i.e

Add these lines in your apps/app name/config/factories.yml to make to pluging to work.

all:

  user:

   class:  sfGuardSecurityUser

Using th native MySQL ENUM type in Symfony 1.4 and Doctrine

Iman — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 17:18:14 +0000

To use the native MySQL ENUM type in Symfony and Doctrine you will have to update your "project/config/databases.yml" and add the "use_native_enum" directive under "attributes" i.e:

      attributes:        

         use_native_enum: true

         use_dql_callbacks: true

         default_table_collate: utf8_general_ci

         default_table_charset: utf8

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40 Most Needed Drupal Modules

Iman — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:13:57 +0000

Here are my top 40 Drupal modules that seem to happen more often I am using them in my Drupal projects.

1. addtoany
2. blocks404
3. boost
4. cacherouter
5. canonical_url
6. captcha
7. cck
8. custom_breadcrumbs
9. date
10. diggthis
11. filefield
12. gravatar
13. htmlpurifier
14. image_caption
15. image_fupload
16. imageapi
17. imagecache
18. imagecache_profiles
19. imagefield
20. imagefield_crop
21. imagefield_tokens
22. imce
23. imce_wysiwyg
24. menu_breadcrumb
25. montharchive
26. nodewords
27. page_title
28. pathauto
29. seo_checklist
30. tagadelic
31. taxonomy_breadcrumb
32. taxonomy_manager
33. taxonomy_menu
34. taxonomy_vtn
35. token
36. twitter
37. views
38. workflow
39. wysiwyg
40. xmlsitemap

URL rewriting and add www to .htaccess for hosting multiple domain or multi sites

Iman — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:43:33 +0000

Adding the www to URL in .htaccess for hosting multiple domain or multisites and handle www issue for canonical URLs.

    ##Adding the www

    RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC]

    RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(.*)$ [NC]

    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ "http://www.%1/$1" [L,R=301]

The other way around you can removing the www from URL.

Remove www and rewrite URL for multi-sites or subdomains in .htaccess

Iman — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:29:03 +0000

If you are running a Multisites or Subdomains sites this .htaccess RewriteRule code might come in handy specially for purpose of SEO. You can clean up your URL from http://www.yourdomain.com to http://yourdomain.com and remove the “www” with 301 redirect to non-www.

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.+)$ [NC]

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://%1/$1 [L,R=301]

If you want to add the www to URLs check this out.

Convert Linux/Unix timestamp to human readable format in PHP

Iman — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:07:32 +0000

This functin will help to convert the Linux/Unix timestamp to human readable format:

<?php
function unix_timestamp_to_human ($timestamp = "", $format = 'D d M Y - H:i:s')
{
    if (empty($timestamp) || ! is_numeric($timestamp)) $timestamp = time();
    return ($timestamp) ? date($format, $timestamp) : date($format, $timestamp);
}

$unix_time = "1251208071";

echo unix_timestamp_to_human($unix_time); //Return: Tue 25 Aug 2009 - 14:47:51 
?>

Microsoft Word Document HTML Cleanup in PHP

Iman — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 21:40:11 +0000

I had to cleanup a HTML created out of MS Word Document manually. Honestly it is a pain to manually search and replace all the junks Word Document generating. So I have written a text conversion function in PHP to automatically cleanup the MS Word junks and output HTML entities.

How to install YUM, Zend Optimizer, eAccelerator and APC

Iman — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:54:45 +0000

Recently a friend had difficulty installing Alternative PHP Cache (APC) and upload progress for his Drupal CMS on Debian VPS. Therefore I tought of sharing this post about how to setup and run your virtual private server with most useful PHP packages.

I would assume you have a Debian VPS, CentOs or Ubuntu and you would like to install APC, Zend Optimizer and eAccelerator for the best PHP performances or if they are required by some third party applications.

I normally like to install everything on Debian, CentOs or Ubuntu using the yum (Yellow dog Updater, Modified) package manger to make sure that updates for all applications are uniform and its easy to do, easy to search for available packages and easier to type instead of apt-get.

Simple PHP function to generate a random string based on Alpha, Numeric, Nozero, MD5 and SHA1 type

Iman — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:45:27 +0000

Here's a simple function to generate a random string based on Alpha, Numeric, Nozero, MD5 and SHA1 types.