Tag: PHP
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Horde 5 enters release cycle – First Alpha of Sesha Inventory App available
All’s well that ends well. During the last few days, the first alpha releases of the Horde Framework and some of its core apps hit the announcement list. Horde 5 sports a completely revamped user interface which allows a much tighter integration of the portal dashboard, ajax mode applications like the IMP Webmailer or traditional…
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PHP goes git
Today the main PHP development branch has moved to the git version control system. In the past, PHP has been developed on cvs and svn. The move to git is very common Bodybuilding toepassingen these days. Git is, for example, the version control system used by the linux kernel developers and the Horde Application Framework.…
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php5.3 packages in SLES 11 SP2
SLES 11 SP2 ships php5.3 binaries but the default package php5 still installs php5.2 which already has reached upstream end of life and should be considered unsupported by any means. Recent versions of phpunit and other developer tools won’t provide all features on php5.2 any more. You must use apache2-mod_php53, php53, php53-mysql and so on…
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Installing Horde 4 pear packages to a custom pear location (SUSE)
When installing horde to a custom pear location, you need to run the pear of your custom location, not the system pear with the custom location’s config. So the steps would be: 1 mkdir /srv/horde 2 pear config-create /srv/horde/ /srv/horde/pear.conf 3 pear -c /srv/horde/pear.conf install PEAR as the install docs say but then: 4 /srv/horde/pear/pear…
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Distributed applications with Horde 4
Synopsis Horde’s powerful RPC API has been used numerous times to allow integration of horde-based data into external applications or remote sites. It also provides an easy to set up basis for distributed applications with headless workers. In this article I will give you a brief introduction on how to build a scalable distributed architecture…
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Tip of the day: Changing global php pear settings as root
Don’t forget: when you change pear settings as root, usually you want to set values in the system pear config, not in root’s personal config. The crucial third parameter is optional and defaults to ‘user’. We want ‘system’ instead pear config-set test_dir /usr/share/php/tests systems verify: pear config-show
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Horde 4 submit-requested into OpenSUSE 12.1
Today I submit-requested the Horde 4 Application Framework and the stable apps for openSUSE Factory. This is becoming openSUSE 12.1 if the packages get accepted on time. They are currently in review. openSUSE Legal team wants to review all packages’ licensing – I’m sure that’s NOT the fun part of their job. If everything works…
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Howto: Packaging 3rd party pear channel software with %php_pear_gen_filelist macro
The %php_pear_gen_filelist macro, maintained by Christian Wittmer, is really handy for packaging php pear software packages. It generates rpmlint-happy filelists and if you manage to get the dependencies right, packaging pear stuff for rpm is really a no-brainer. But the standard recipe for using this macro has one drawback: It’s ignorant of installed 3rd party…
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Making horde3 run on php5.3 + (openSUSE 11.3+)
Horde3 has been designed to work with PHP 4 and aims to stay compatible till end of life. That is why some parts of Horde3 still rely on features or behaviour which is not default anymore in PHP5. It it still possible to make horde3 run on PHP5.3 as shipped by OpenSUSE 11.3 and factory:…