When setting up applications such as Magento you may come across the error message "PHP Fatal error: Class 'DOMDocument' not found ..." in your apache server log files Reason for the error is missing log files. Issue the commands below to fix the issue $ yum -y install php-xml php-devel $ service httpd reload

Apache server is installed by default on Mac. Access the configuration settings for Apache by going to $ cd /etc/apache2/ $ vi httpd.conf To enable php, edit httpd.conf and uncomment the line #LoadModule php5_module libexec/apache2/libphp5.so Uncomment other lines that you may want to load in your system. As you are enabling PHP in your system, you may want to change the DirectoryIndex to DirectoryIndex index.php index.html Default group/user settings inside Apache on Mac is _www:_www (more…)

* After WAMP is installed go to the folder where the web server related PHP bin directory is present. Search for the batch file pear.bat in it. Double click the file to start the PEAR installation. Go with the defaults and complete the installation * Search for PEAR_ENV.reg. Double click that file to register the PEAR settings as environment variable * Go to the command prompt and type "pear list" to see what packages are installed and if PEAR is correctly installed. If PEAR cannot be accessed via the command line, it means the PATH setting is not set correctly. Environment PATH variable should include the path to where pear.bat is present

PEAR should be already installed in the system before configuring the phpseclib channel. PHPSecLib installation is very simple. PHPSecLib is a library of optional PHP extensions which comes in handy if the application were to be packaged as a solution for deployment to the end user. Step 1: Register the channel c:\> pear channel-discover phpseclib.sourceforge.net (more…)

Follow the simple steps given below to integrate Zend framework with other applications like Wordpress, Joomla and other such open source or custom web applications. i) Setup your Zend framework application as usual. ii) Set the document root of the Zend application to the public folder within Zend install iii) Now setup a folder for your wordpress or joomla or custom application. Let us assume that we want to create a custom blog application. Create a folder "blog" within "public" folder. Inside blog folder, create two files - .htaccess and index.php. Code for the two files are given below (more…)

XDebug provides a lot of useful information to a PHP programmer to debug code thus saving time and increasing efficiency. As a first step, check the version of PHP you are running by creating phpinfo() in a file. When the program is executed you will see a line of text showing the version of PHP you are using This program makes use of the Zend Scripting Language Engine: Zend Engine v2.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2009 Zend Technologies Now that we know the version of PHP we are using, we can download the relevant xdebug version to to debug PHP programs with Notepad++ We will setup Notepad++ with xdebug and dbgp plugin. (more…)