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Developing in PHP with NetBeans 6.8
The problem: I love Textmate as an editor period. There are some things though that I started missing while developing: Code completion Inline documentation instant error checking debugging from my editor must have strong syntax highlighting support (for dark themes like my favourite Sunburst) So I started looking around for an IDE(or Editor) that would [...]
Installing xDebug 2.0.4 or 2.1 on OSX
In my previous post we installed the latest apache and php from source and now I’d like to install xDebug to it. As stated in the comments on the previous post, I like living on the edge, so I build it myself, instead of using packages like MAMP or XAMMP or using binaries. With that [...]
Installing PHP 5.2.8 on OSX Leopard 10.5.6
Because I travel a lot by train, it’s easy to have a local development environment with me. Because OSX Leopard contains Apache2 and PHP 5.2.6, I installed MySQL, ZF, PEAR, setup the vhost conf for apache and added the path to the ZF and PEAR libraries to /etc/php.ini. This seemed to work fine for a [...]
Themed Tab Terminal for OSX Leopard
If you’re working a lot with remote sessions like I do, you inevitably type a command in the wrong window… Most of the time it’s something harmless like an ls or an cd command, but if you’re trying to clean stuff up with an rm command things can get bad. The easiest way to differentiate [...]
CakePHP: Calling bake from every dev-app install folder
If you use a setup like I explained in my previous post calling the bake script involves a lot of typing with the core and app parameter paths. If I want to call the bake script from the /Users/mwesten/Sites/dev/myapp cake app folder, it has to be done like this:
CakePHP: Central cake core install with multiple apps
When developing on my system I like to use only one version of the core files. If I update the core files from svn it gets updated for all apps I’m working on. The way I’m using this is explained below: In my web-root I do an svn export of cake latest: cd /Users/mwesten/Sites svn [...]
CakePHP on OSX: Problem using Bake.php script
If you are getting the following errors while trying to bake something on osx 10.4: "Warning: mysql_connect(): Can’t connect to local MySQL server through socket ‘/var/mysql/mysql.sock’ (2) in /Library/WebServer/Documents/development/bakery/cake/libs/model/dbo/dbo_mysql.php on line 117" try doing the following: sudo ln -s /tmp /var/mysql Or you could follow the instruction given by Apple: Mac OS X Server 10.4: [...]
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