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Make text PHP safe

Posted on 21st December, 2006, 2:20 pm, by glen, under General, PHP.

Have you ever copied and pasted some text from somewhere for use in a PHP string? You have? Well, you know that there can be some problems if the text contains single or double quotes. That’s where this little tool will come in handy:
PHP String Quoter
Just enter your text, and it will [...]

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Enabling GD library for PHP 4.4.4 on Mac OS X

Posted on 16th December, 2006, 2:21 am, by glen, under Apache, Mac, MySQL, PHP.

For some reason, GD is not enabled in the default Mac OS X build of PHP 4.4.4. Here’s an easy way to install. Make sure you have the following fink packages installed:

libpng3
libjpeg

1. Download the source code for PHP 4.4.4
PHP 4.4.4 source
2. Unpack the source
tar jxvf php-4.4.4.tar.bz2
cd php-4.4.4
3. Compile and install the GD extension

cd [...]

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PHP syntax check on Save

Posted on 7th December, 2006, 10:29 am, by glen, under Mac, PHP.

John Gruber has produced a nice little AppleScript to check your PHP documents for syntax errors. I have found that you can use this as a nice safety net so not to save any PHP documents with errors by attaching the script to the Save option in the File menu:
1. Install the AppleScript into [...]

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