Mcrypt with Appserv on Windows

November 30th, 2009 admin Posted in Open source No Comments »

 - Install mcrypt extension for Magento and recompile php

-  Ecart os

After a while I could figure out how to install the Mcrypt library on Appserv and windows.

Steps:

  1. Remove the ; (enable) from the php Mcrypt extension line on PHP INI file
  2. Copy the windows Mcrypt DLL - http://files.edin.dk/php/win32/mcrypt/ - to Windows/System32 folder
  3. Restart Apache (and probably windows - I did)
  4. Open a phpinfo file and verify if mcrypt is enabled and what types of encryptions does it carries. If you are using a encryption method that mcrypt does not offer support, it will give a mcrypt module initialization error.
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10 Practical PHP Regular Expression Recipes

November 6th, 2009 admin Posted in Open source No Comments »

Latest update Email validation seems quite tricky. Do you have a better solution? Let’s have email validation challenge. And give the user the best way to validate an email format. Read the rest of this entry »

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Sphinx full-text search

November 3rd, 2009 admin Posted in Open source No Comments »

Sphinx is a full-text search engine, distributed under GPL version 2. Commercial license is also available for embedded use.

Generally, it’s a standalone search engine, meant to provide fast, size-efficient and relevant fulltext search functions to other applications. Sphinx was specially designed to integrate well with SQL databases and scripting languages. Currently built-in data sources support fetching data either via direct connection to MySQL or PostgreSQL, or using XML pipe mechanism (a pipe to indexer in special XML-based format which Sphinx recognizes).

As for the name, Sphinx is an acronym which is officially decoded as SQL Phrase Index. Yes, I know about CMU’s Sphinx project.

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10 Steps to Becoming a Great Web Developer

November 1st, 2009 admin Posted in Open source No Comments »

For those of us who are already web developers it may seem obvious but when you just getting started and don’t know what to do, it is nice to have guide where to start. Read the rest of this entry »

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20 Great PHP Libraries You Need to Know

October 25th, 2009 admin Posted in Open source, PHP & MySQL No Comments »

You’re in the middle of a project, and need to get everything done as soon as possible. To keep the deadline and still have a life, you would better to collect this awesome library on your fingertip. By knowing this library capability, then you’ll know when to use any of them. Read the rest of this entry »

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