BEPHPUG: Debugging mit Eclipse und Xdebug

Mostly German content ahead! Die Berliner PHP Usergroup trifft sich am 5. August, ab 20:30 Uhr, in der Z-Bar. Thema: Debugging mit Eclipse und Xdebug (Vortragender: Marthin Rothenberger) Adresse: Teilnahme: kostenlos ( In English: The next meetup of the Berlin PHP Usergroup will take place on the 5th August, 2009. We’ll meet at Z-Bar, at around 8:30 PM. This meetup’s topic is Debugging with Eclipse and Xdebug. Feel free to join....

July 29, 2009 · 1 min

Great expectations

If you ever contributed your spare time to any project which gives away something at the price of zero, you may be familiar with a large variety of feedback. It’s always reassuring for those who spend their time to get feedback from happy users. But of course there’s no way to please everyone at the same time. And aside from the usual “This doesn’t work!!!11 WTF?!!”, some people seem to be particularly ungrateful, or just way out of bounds when they email in....

July 11, 2009 · 2 min

Nginx+PHP+FastCGI: Testing your web application with bleeding edge PHP

So, every once in a while I find myself in need of trying out newer, maybe, not-yet-released features in PHP. For example, recently, I wanted to test RoundCube PHP6 — this is how I did it. On a side note, the same setup would also work for testing code with previous versions of PHP. Toolbox I used nginx and the PHP source with a little bit of ./configure and make — for kicks!...

July 5, 2009 · 2 min

Magento: moving a store to another server

Frequently, you do client work and if you are fortunate enough, you can setup a development environment on your own server or your laptop (or whatever), tinker with the files, and templates, and so on — until it’s all done. And whenever you are done, it’s time to move files. Sounds easy? It sort of is! Checklist Here’s a small check list of things to keep in mind when you move an installation....

June 15, 2009 · 2 min

PHP performance III -- Running nginx

Since part one and two were uber-successful, here’s an update on my Zend Framework PHP performance situation. I’ve also had this post sitting around since beginning of May and I figured if I don’t post it now, I never will. Disclaimer: All numbers (aka pseudo benchmarks) were not taken on a full moon and are (of course) very relative to our server hardware (e.g. DELL 1950, 8 GB RAM) and environment....

May 31, 2009 · 3 min