With the power of internet and online community shows how intenet is really amazing fsf.org, libreplanet.org, php.net, google.com, wordpress.org, wikipedia and other internet services goes black that’s gives blackeye to SOPA to pull out by it’s chief sponsor.

Here is some screenshot I get that show how internet is really great.

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I still continue to get the certification, first because it’s already my plan since last year, second PHP is not their concern and third its just for a PHP foundation and I would like to get PHP certification while I ‘m still waiting for php 5.4 and finally get the certification on Zend.

The w3school offer is good enough to document my knowledge in PHP, The exam is quite good not easy but never to tough is 70 random question about PHP and MySQL.

I passed the exam but to far to get perfect score or to get the Excellency Degree notation for those who get 95%.

Overall is good experience and nice to have PHP certification, I can’t wait to PHP Zend Certifcation but I still need to wait for PHP5.4 to come.

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PHP is a templating language, not a general purpose or even an object oriented language. Embrace it. Don’t fight it;

Don’t introduce frameworks just for the sake of them. This goes back to the fundamental principle that you shouldn’t solve a problem until you have a problem. Developers these days I find are somewhat “framework trigger happy” (“I’m sick of writing if (s == null || s.equals(“”)), lets add Apache Commons Validator to the project!”);

Always reuse code rather than cutting and pasting it unless the code is so trivial (say under 10 lines) or would require too much parametrization (say 5+ parameters) to effectively reuse;

Strive to minimize lines of code as best you can;

Don’t try and do things the Java, C# or Ruby way in PHP. Do things the PHP way. Those other languages each have fundamentally different models;

Never, ever, ever use require_once or include_once. Some will no doubt disagree with this but I see those as being symptomatic of laziness and poor organization. They’re also slower than require and include and arguably anathema to caching;

Always use opcode caching. This is usually as simple as turning APC on in your php.ini; Use output buffering (ie ob_start(), etc);

Set up common constants, database connections and so on in a file that you include at the top of every one of your scripts; and

Be consistent. I can’t stress how important that is.

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Why Linux? Because it’s free and makes your laptop or desktop more powerful and advance in computing and not like propriety software every tools that you need in development you can get it free and more thing it’s really cool being free or open source developer.

Linux is your operating system that has a lot of flavor or faces that you can get and download for free, I personally using Trisquel Gnu/Linux that you may download at http://trisquel.info

Now let’s start installing Apache, you must first login as root or administrator on your Linux machine.

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$ sudo su

Install in configure apache by calling the following command.

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$ sudo aptitude install apache2

The following path and command are some reference you need to know about apache in your machine.

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/var/ww - Here is your default document root.
/etc/apache2/apache2.conf - Configuration later we need to access this for some modification.
 /etc/init.d/apache2 restart This the command to restart the Apache server
 /etc/init.d/apache2 stop This is the command to stop Apache server
 /etc/init.d/apache2 start This the command to start it again

Now to install Mysql execute the command and make sure have properly record the password you provided to mysql database configuration.

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$ sudo aptitude install mysql-server mysql-client

Last to install the PHP execute the following command

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$ sudo aptitude install php5 libapache2-mod-php5

To test the php restart the apache and create the following php script.

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Create phpinfo.php file in /var/www/
gedit /var/www/phpinfo.php
<?php phpinfo(); ?>

Test it by calling localhost/phpinfo.php in your browser

No for additional you also like to install phpMyAdmin and Open JDK here the following command.

Installing phpMyadmin

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$ sudo aptitude install phpmyadmin

During configuration chose the following option

• Select apache 2 in Configuring phpMyAdmin
• Select No in Configuring database for phpMyAdmin
• Edit apache configuration /etc/apache2/apache2.conf by adding the following line-Include /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf

Installing open-jdk

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$ aptitude install openjdk-6-jre
$ aptitude install openjdk-6-jdk

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It’s a wonderful and challenging experience working with developer with cashsense and I’m happy that I completed the project in 5 weeks.

Cashsense.com developer continues the enhancement of the application and I’m glad to see it now working well in facebook world and to see that the number of user’s is continuing to grow.

The facebook integration is consisting of the following component, facebook graph, facebook java script and off course cashsense API.

Cashsense was originally conceived and formed in 2005 as the payment processing division for a multi-national IT development and marketing company based in Manila, Philippines.

Following the successful launch of its Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) remittance business, Cashsense continues to develop and launch additional business lines based on technological efficiencies and the straight-through processing of payments; payments made, primarily, by cash. – www.cashsense.com

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//construct required data

$data  = 'UserName='.$userName.'&Password='.$passWord.'';

//build header for request

$headers = array(
	"POST /submit/form.php HTTP/1.1",
	"Host: test.mydomain.com",
	"Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded",
	"Content-length: ".strlen($data)
	); 

//initialize curl and execute

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER,$headers);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,
	"http://test.mydomain.com/test/submit/form.php"); // actual url to submit

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST,1);
//just retrive data don't write

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1); 

//provide required data

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
$content = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

//tranfer to xml content respond should be xml format too.

$xml = simplexml_load_string($content,'SimpleXMLElement', LIBXML_NOCDATA);

Reference:
http://php.net/manual/en/book.curl.php

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FTP

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function ftpUpload($ftp_host, $ftp_username, $ftp_password, $ftp_path, $filename) {

	//Connect to FTP host

	if (!$ftp = ftp_connect($ftp_host)) {
		die ('Unable to connect to the specified FTP.');
	}

	//Login to FTP

	if (!$ftp, $ftp_username, $ftp_password)) {
		die ('Unable to login to the FTP Server.');
	}

	//local file name destination or new filename

	$local_filename = $filename;

	//Upload file to ftp host.

	if (!ftp_put($ftp, $filename, $local_filename, FTP_ASCII)) {
		die('Unable to upload file.');
	}

return TRUE;

}

SFTP

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function sftpUpload($ftp_host, $ftp_username, $ftp_password, $ftp_path, $filename) {

	if (! function_exists('ssh2_connect')) {
		die('function is not available.');
	}

	//Connect to SFTP host

	$connection = ssh2_connect($loc_ftp_host, $port=22);
	if (! $connection)
		die('Could not connect to $ftp_host on port $port.');

	//Login to SFTP host

	if (! ssh2_auth_password($connection, $loc_ftp_username, $loc_ftp_password))
		die('Could not authenticate with username and password.');

	$sftp = ssh2_sftp($connection);

	if (! $sftp) die('Could not initialize sftp subsystem.');

	//Create or open file

	$stream = fopen('ssh2.sftp://'.$sftp.$ftp_path.'/'.$filename, 'w');

	if (! $stream) die('Could not open file: $filename');

	$local_filename = $filename;

	$data_to_send = file_get_contents($local_filename);

	if ($data_to_send === false)
		die('Could not open local file: $local_filename.');

	if (@fwrite($stream, $data_to_send) === false)
	    die('Could not send data from file: $local_filename.');

	@fclose($stream);

	return TRUE;

}

Reference:
FTP Manual – http://php.net/manual/en/book.ftp.php
SFTP Manual – http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.ssh2.php

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In the long run of review and testing of these three PHP framework, I started to ask some question like “Do I really need a framework” I landed to a different blog and forum to answer my quest.

1.Do I really need a PHP framework?
2.Its PHP framework can handle out of the box programming needs and all business requirements?

All though it’s a long debate and programmer has different point of view I decide to list down the pros and cons of using PHP framework and its advantage and disadvantage.

Advantage of Using Framework

• You don’t even have to write OO code if you don’t want to.
• Provide a solid structure for your code.
• Extra functionality that would be much harder to replicate on its own.
• MVC Structured code (Model-View-Container ).
• Enforcing of good coding standards.
• Pretty URLS.
• Less time coding.

Disadvantage of Using Framework

• Hide the original syntax of PHP
• Slower then a simple php.
• It’s heavy, more compiling time
• Framework is like third party software
• Limited resources & support
• Framework is for weak Programmer

My Conclusion

For small project use custom PHP toolkit is good, for big project I suggest to carefully review and decide if you going to use framework. Instead of reading its feature and promise go to forum and read all the issued raised so you can get an idea of what possible problem that you may encounter.

If your PHP project will handle out of the box programming needs and ideas, I suggest don’t use framework rather than use framework, design carefully your project needs and develop a clean and secure object oriented code.

Because framework are built in solution for your project needs it’s doesn’t mean It can handle all possible business and project requirements.

Remember that framework is also made from programming native language, I don’t want to say to create you own framework but of course you can design framework for you own project specific needs, it will help you become more strong in programming analysis and design.

Remember that you can also design your project with Pretty URL and implement standard coding in the team.

Relying on framework will only make you idle and dependent on framework, I remember the time when one of my teams mate approach me and said that his group can’t proceed to their task because there is no available library for their needs, they found one framework witch is limited in function and feature. My answer to him is very simple “Then crate your own library or framework”.

But overall it’s still depend on your needs and what generation programming language you are in.

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