On development, testing, and staging site you normally don’t want Drupal’s caching, and javascript/css aggregation features enabled. Drop the following into your sites settings.php file to override these settings. // disable performance caching$conf[‘cache’] = 0;$conf[‘block_cache’] = 0;$conf[‘preprocess_css’] = 0;$conf[‘preprocess_js’] = 0;
For Drupal module developers, the hook_nodeapi function affords a lot of flexibility for interacting with nodes at various operation. If you just start pasting or writing code, you’ll quickly end up with a giant, messy switch statement. But there is a simpel way to keep your code nicely organized. First, lets take a look at
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If you’re contemplating switching to running PHP5 under FastCGI, to take advantage of apache’s threaded worker model and improve your server’s performance, think again. If you’re used to setting and overriding php values via .htaccess files or using php_value/php_flag in your virtual host directory, this is not supported with FastCGI. You’ll have to figure out
I was noticing today many apache segfaults on this server, and pretty high traffic loads at times. I haven’t pinpointed the exact cause of high traffic, there are a couple candidates, but the apache segfaults seem to accompanied by the following PHP errors: [13-Aug-2008 13:55:27] PHP Notice: MemcachePool::get() [memcachepool.get]: Server 127.0.0.1 (tcp 11211, udp 0)
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PHP’s Header function can come in quite handy when you’re building your next greate web application. Its powerful, but as a result, its tempting to misuse it to do even the simplest things, like permanent redirects. Usually, its done like this: // redirect /publications (this page) to real page (/documents)Header("Location: /documents/"); One line of code,
Hmm, why does this poll look so familiar? Oh yeah, the options to vote on are word for word the same as my post on Avoiding Frustration with PHP Sessions. HT: phpdeveloper.org
PHP’s support for sessions make adding "state" to your web application super easy. Bus because the illusion of state is maintained by storing a Session ID via a user’s cookies, you might find yourself losing potentially productive hours chasing down bizarre client side bugs or opening up a potential security hole. Here are 4 tips
I installed to Akismet this weekend, to deal with a new flood of comment spam that had been getting by mod_security and my other measures. It literally took me 15 minutes to install, thanks to the libraries already available for it. In my case, I used the PHP5 library from Aching Brain dot Net. So
Poking around, like you do on your server, I noticed that php session files weren’t being deleted, even after a few days. Turns out, PHP’s automatic garbase collection is disabled on Debian. Instead, its replaced by a cron script that cleans out the /var/lib/php5 directory, which is where sessions are saved by default. If you’re
So, if you’re a leet php coder, you must have installed Smarty since it gives you a three-tier web application and separates your display logic from your business logic. Right? Maybe not. Just using a template system doesn’t guarantee any of this, so don’t let yourself be deceived in this way. Before I go further,