Month: February 2012

howto

Installing PHP 5.4.0RC8 and Apache 2.4 on Ubuntu 11.10

Post author By awnage
Post date 2012/02/12

About once every other week I try and spend some time at work thinking ahead. With PHP 5.4 on the horizon I began to wonder how our current Zend Framework application would fare if the SysAdmins decided to jump straight from PHP 5.2 to PHP 5.4. Would the site work at all? One way to find out. Lets install PHP 5.4RC8 and Apache 2.4.

I started by creating a fresh Ubuntu 11.10 VM. In complete disclosure, I removed some of the unneeded packages like LibreOffice first. I then cloned it so I would always have a base to work off of in the future.

Tags apache, php, ubuntu

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ZF Config XML vs Ini Showdown

Post author By awnage
Post date 2012/02/10

Back at php|tek11 Rob Allen gave a talk on optimizing Zend Framework. During the tutorial he pointed out how you could cache your application config files so that they are not loaded and parsed at every request. This got me thinking about something that had been bugging me for a long time. What is the best format for your config file?

Back before ZF 1.0 there was a fair bit of confusion on how to do everything “right”, especially setting up a “modular” build. One of the first good examples out there was made by Dasprid, and he used an xml based application config. We are talking back in early 2007 when it was the wild west for ZF. Since then, I only see people using ini files.

Well, here it finally is, the official synthetic Zend_Config benchmark shootout.

Tags php, zf1

howto

PHP Oracle [notice] child pid NNNN exit signal Bus error (10)

Post author By awnage
Post date 2012/02/04

After some frustration I learned from a forum post that the default password time limit for Oracle 11g is 120 days. Once you get close to that you will go into a grace period, where PHP’s oci connection dies on you with no explanation. You will notice a message like this in you apache log:

[notice] child pid NNNN exit signal Bus error (10) in the apache log.

Step 1: Change your password, or rather lets just keep it as it is…

ALTER USER myname IDENTIFIED BY mypassword

Step 2: Make us not have to do this again:

ALTER PROFILE DEFAULT LIMIT PASSWORD_LIFE_TIME UNLIMITED;

Hope this helps someone.

Tags oracle, php