PHP Error Exception Handling
Got a question from a friend today who is actually a great desktop programmer and just learn PHP since he believe that the future is in the web (hope you’re right dude). He asked me about how to handling error in PHP. Well i’ll write my answer here so can share with others and got feedback when I was wrong.
In PHP there are few options that you can use to handle errors & exceptions during script executions and as developer you must considering not the easiet but the most flexible approach which will help you when debugging your appllication, the more detail error message provided the faster you can fix it. Flexible means its easy for you to change the application behaviour when unexpected things happened during execution like: display error, logging error or even automatically notice you via email.
Install, Configure & Running Memcache in Windows as Service
Installing memcache server in windows is a little bit complicated compared to how it can be done in *nix since theres not yet available ready to use package for win32.
Luckily i found the compiled memcached for win32 (exe) which was made by jellycan, within this exe file you can install configure and running memcached as a service in your windows environment, here are how i made it:
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Newer version available at northscale, thanks to Matt Ingenthron for pointing this.
Upgrading to upcoming CodeIgniter 2.0
phil sturgeon has published a new article in his blog about upgrading pyroCMS to the new upcoming codeigniter 2.0, worth to look at to help you port your CI based application to run with CodeIgniter 2.0 with less headbanging. I seen big changes has been made to this new version includes:
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PHP Class Create Short URL via TinyURL, Is.gd, Hex.io, Tr.im & Bit.ly API
Short URL is commonly used today for several reasons: avoid url garbling, take smallest space especially for long url which need to be posted at limited space format eg: twitter, also often used to manipulate user for specific purposes eg: hiding orginal url for phising and ads/affiliation links.
There are many websites that provide shortening url services, tinyurl, bit.ly, hex.io are some of them, below is simple PHP script as an implementation to use their API, create short url on the fly, currently support: tinyURL, bit.ly, is.gd, tr.im and hex.io, but you can easily add other providers.
PHP Currency Converter via Yahoo Finance
I have posted sample of PHP script to do rate conversion based on Google Finance rates, now this is the same PHP functionality but based on Yahoo Finance rates.
taste good anyway.
