A Story of a PHP Variable Reference Pitfall

drupal, php, pitfall, reference, variables

Irakli:

If you think you have something as "basic" as PHP variables and reference rules all figured-out, you may have to think twice. Or at least that's what happened to me and following is an honest-to-heart story of it.

Posted 08/27/2009 - 21:14 // 6 comments

Drupal: Hooking Into Menu Item's After Save State

drupal, hook, menu, php, shutdown

Irakli:

A short blog post that describes how to "create" post-state hooks if you have pre-state hook in Drupal. The specific example simulates a post-menu-item-save hook (which does not actually exist).

Posted 07/20/2009 - 18:45 // 3 comments

Troubles with Drupal, File Uploads, and XAMPP

apache, development, drupal, file uploads, php, xampp

Frank:

Ever tear your hair out for hours trying to track down why something is not working, only to find out that it is the simplest thing? Well, after losing a large chunk of my life that is never to return, I am happy to say that it is solved.

Posted 08/14/2008 - 06:22 // 7 comments

Multipart HTML Emails With Drupal

drupal, drupal5, email, html, multipart, php, text/html, text/plain

Irakli:

Multi-part email format allows you to send both textual and HTML-formatted emails concurrently. These days, most web-systems should support this. In the following blog post, we discuss and show a quick example of how to send multi-part e-mails with Drupal

Posted 07/15/2008 - 14:47 // 6 comments

HOWTO: Install PECL APC Cache on CentOS (without XAMPP)

alternative php cache, linux, php

Frank:

As Irakli already discussed, the Alternative PHP Cache (APC) is an op-code pre-compiler and a cache system that can boost the performance of a PHP application up to 10 times. Op-code caches are very effective for a Drupal website, since Drupal deals with large number of source files and time spent in parsing them significantly affects performance. However, if you don’t have XAMPP and need to install it on CentOS, you can follow this guide to get around some of the problems that happen with the default server settings.

Posted 04/02/2008 - 22:21 // 7 comments

HOWTO: Install PECL APC Cache with XAMPP on Linux

alternative php cache, apc, drupal, performance, php, scalability

Irakli:

Alternative PHP Cache (APC) is an op-code pre-compiler and a cache system that can boost the performance of a PHP application up to 10 times. Op-code caches are very effective for a Drupal website, since Drupal deals with large number of source files and time spent in parsing them significantly affects performance. The following blog post explains how to install APC in a XAMPP environment.

Posted 03/13/2008 - 12:34 // 3 comments