http://frontrangephp.org/ FRPUG Forums en http://backend.userland.com/rss http://frontrangephp.org/forums?task=viewtopic&pid=100#100 100@http://frontrangephp.org/components/com_agora/ Topic: PHP and COM Functions Message: Hi, So from what I am reading you are trying to connect to a PostgreSQL database from a windows PHP server. PHP ships with drivers for Postgres, and they work great. There's not really any reason I can think of for needing to use PHP -> COM -> PG. You can create a PDO connection to the Postgres database or use the PG functions directly: http://php.net/PDO http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.pgsql.php Personally I prefer PDO, but either way should work for what you want. Thanks, David Thu, 11 Feb 2010 11:11:29 -0700 http://frontrangephp.org/forums?task=viewtopic&pid=99#99 99@http://frontrangephp.org/components/com_agora/ Topic: PHP and COM Functions Message: Hi, I'm a local PHP developer but relatively new to PHP. I have a current application where I've got to connect a PHP based site to a legacy Progress database via the DLL that has been provided by the vendor of the legacy system. The vendor has a extensive library of API calls that are accessible through the DLL that will allow queries and updates against the Progress database. I've used google and have found a number of articles that suggest using COM if the DLL "contains a COM server" (sic). I'm wondering if anyone local has hands-on experience with using the COM functions and would be able to provide a little advice? I don't have much information right now on the DLL itself but will have an opportunity soon to learn more. The first thing I really need is just to know what the right questions are to ask. For specifics: the site is running under IIS 6 on a Windows 2003 Server and the Progress database is running on a Unix/Linux machine, b Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:57:59 -0700 http://frontrangephp.org/forums?task=viewtopic&pid=98#98 98@http://frontrangephp.org/components/com_agora/ Topic: Have you used Smarty? What's your take on it? Message: Hi As a PHP cosultant and trainer (for Software Training Academy - ([url]http://www.SoftwareTrainingAcademy.com[/url]) we "had" to use smarty in a project in the past for. My impression is that it's not too powerful when compared to other frameworks dealing with logic / view separation. At first it was okay, but as the project became more complex it did not help as we had hoped. What other frameworks have you guys been used out there ? any feedback / insight ? cheers, Marc. Sun, 17 Jan 2010 19:46:13 -0700 http://frontrangephp.org/forums?task=viewtopic&pid=60#60 60@http://frontrangephp.org/components/com_agora/ Topic: php.net changed behavior about search source menu? Message: I also have observed this, and double-checked it this morning to see if the problem remains...yep. You might want to take a look at the PHP.net [url=http://us.php.net/contact.php]Contact page[/url] and see which of those options, if any, you want to pursue. I don't know of anything you personally can do, I suspect it is an issue with the site's code. Wed, 06 May 2009 11:02:35 -0600 http://frontrangephp.org/forums?task=viewtopic&pid=59#59 59@http://frontrangephp.org/components/com_agora/ Topic: php.net changed behavior about search source menu? Message: I've been using php.net for over a year, mostly to look up functions in 'function list'. I never had to change the source in the drop-down menu unless I needed to look elsewhere (usually 'online documentation'). Recently, the webpage insists on changing the source automatically to 'online documentation', even when I've just been looking up something in 'function list'. I checked myphp.net, and the URL search fallback is set to "function list search", and that seems to work OK. I tested it by simply entering the word explode in the address box of Firefox. Has there been a recent change that is making this happen? Is there something else I can set to make it stay on 'function list'? Thanks for any help you can give me. Wed, 06 May 2009 09:54:23 -0600 http://frontrangephp.org/forums?task=viewtopic&pid=23#23 23@http://frontrangephp.org/components/com_agora/ Topic: Virtual Host configuration on Mac OS X Message: Mike, I'm not well-versed with Apache on OS X, but tonight I can send you my notes and an example virtual host file that I used to set up a virtual host on Ubuntu. I'll be posting this stuff after my presentation on Wednesday, as well. Cal Tue, 24 Feb 2009 10:17:05 -0700 http://frontrangephp.org/forums?task=viewtopic&pid=22#22 22@http://frontrangephp.org/components/com_agora/ Topic: Virtual Host configuration on Mac OS X Message: How would I set up a virtual host system for testing on my Mac using the default Apache installation? I'm interested in assigning the subdirectories in my Sites folder to their own virtual domains on my local machine. Everything I've found on the internet is about setting up www.example.com, but since this is for local testing, I'm just interested in setting it up for http://example/ or http://localhost/example/ or something like that. I've also been having a few issues testing Joomla, because I'm trying to do it in my Sites dir, instead of the master documents folder for the webserver, so the permissions aren't configured to allow the webserver to modify the docs. Obviously the easy solution for all of this would be to move everything over to the webserver's document folder, but then I don't think I'd be able to easily edit the files if I needed to. Maybe I'm just being difficult. Tue, 24 Feb 2009 10:09:13 -0700 http://frontrangephp.org/forums?task=viewtopic&pid=9#9 9@http://frontrangephp.org/components/com_agora/ Topic: Have you used Smarty? What's your take on it? Message: Apparently, [url=http://phpslacker.com/2009/02/05/smarty-solving-the-wrong-problem-since-2001/]Smarty is evil[/url]. I was curious if anybody had used it before and what their impressions were. Fri, 06 Feb 2009 13:21:45 -0700