Adding bugsnag To My Site
While at ZendCon2017 this year, I ran across bugsnag in the vendor exhibit hall, and decided I needed to add them to one of my production sites, so I could be notifiedRead More…
Don’t Emulate Prepared Statements with PDO & MySQL
Recently I have been updating one of my older sites to a completely new code base, and with that new code I’ve switched all old MySQL calls from the old mysql_* functionsRead More…
19May/16
Coding Tools
Lateley, I’ve been looking for new coding tools, because I switch between front end and back end regularly. Previously, I had been using Eclipse with various plugins, and also Zend Studio (basedRead More…
PHP OpenLDAP Configuration for Active Directory
In order to speak with AD servers, PHP installs need to use openldap. And for the openldap server to maintain a trust level with the Active Directory server, we need to reference the AD’sRead More…
23Jan/15
Google Admin SDK (PHP) – User Updates
If you’re managing users on site, and using Google for Education/Business to handle mail and calendars, you’re going to have to change passwords, change usernames, suspend and restore. Thankfully, all of theseRead More…
16Dec/14
Google Admin SDK API with PHP
Note: Google has changed things. Please see the comment from Ishaq below. There’s a lot of documentation on the Google Admin SDK API for both Java and Python, but since the PHPRead More…
05May/14
PHP and OCI predefined constants
Today I had an import script to pull data from Oracle into a MySQL instance, but the script returned an “undefined index” error for one of the fields in the result set. Read More…
07Jan/14
OCI_NO_AUTO_COMMIT: Oracle OCI and PHP
So today I did something fun. I wrote a script to parse out data from a CSV file and push the various data into several different (and mostly unrelated) tables in theRead More…
05Sep/13
PHP Coding Standards
These coding standards are technically for the Framework Interop Group, but the requirements for coding seem quite useful. I’ll definitely be attempting to keep my own framework to these requirements, but moreRead More…
23Aug/13
CAS and Google SSO integration
The situation Just recently at the educational institution where I work I set up a CAS server and integrated it with most of our systems, including Moodle, several WordPress instances and alsoRead More…