Part III – Four PHP MVC Frameworks

As we said before on our small and unofficial review of the best known and most used PHP MVC Frameworks CakePHP is only on third place. Is a great framework and the number of those who use it confirm this. With a bit more difficult learning curve than CodeIngniter or Symfony but not like Zend Framework, CakePHP gives you a great list of options on how to build your project. As the other two mentioned in the previous articles and as the one that will be under our magnifying glass in the last article, CakePHP has support for

Part II – Four PHP MVC Frameworks

Continuing our journey through the biggest PHP Frameworks we step a bit closer to Symfony this time. They say that “Symfony is a full-stack framework, a library of cohesive classes” but this, I think, can be said for each one of them. What is very helpful when it’s about Symfony is that has a fast learning curve and this is very important for many developers. If you are interested in a technology that has a fast learning curve doesn’t mean that you are a “surface” developer and you are not profound. If your project it’s asking for something available now but efficient and secure and built using the latest technologies then you should choose, what we said before, the one that’s best for you not necessarily for your image. It’s a different perspective isn’t it? That’s what we want to show here, a different perspective.
If you need to build in a fast manner projects or to add to your project different features you can easily choose Symfony. It’s just a bit slower than CodeIgniter and has a different approach but it’s a great framework.
Going forward we’ll say that if you need a framework that

Part I – Four PHP MVC Frameworks

In the era when everybody’s going mad about Object Oriented Programming and when on everybody’s lips you can see how the term MVC is taking more and more shape we thought that a different opinion may be usefull for those who don’t know where to go or what to choose. From our point of view the idea behind everything it is one built from the essence of logic and sounds like this: you have to stay close to those technologies that are giving you what you need to do your job or to create your cutting-edge project. Everything that it’s making your life easier and it’s transforming you in a more efficient and creative developer it’s good for you. I know that you already know this but our advice is to go back to the essence because many developers nowadays are lost in the huge frameworks forest that are already available out there. We are not against them but let us assume this: We want to build custom solutions for small and medium businesses what is the best framework for us? Which one suits better this project? Which one can save us time and therefore money? Hmm, good questions.

CodeIgniter Framework remove index.php from url with .htaccess

Before we begin please go and read this http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/general/urls.html if you don’t already have knowledge about the subject. If you have and you only want to see how we did it than let me tell you that the only thing that is different is the .htaccess content.
We wanted to remove the index.php from being visible in our urls. Before we did that we had make ourself sure that we have installed mod_rewrite and everything it’s up and running properly. After that we installed CodeIgniter and edited our .htaccess file. The .htaccess file must be placed in the root folder.
And after you make sure that you did everything and you’ve read the article from CodeIgniter User Guide than you can copy and paste the code:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|resources|robots\.txt)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L,QSA]

Save the file and you’re done.

SysAdmin shell script – Rsync – remote website synchronisation

In this article I will try to give you an idea or a simple solution on how can you synchronize remote files or folders using rsync via ssh but without a ssh key, with a password. It is not best solution nor the most secure one but it is a solution and the script presented below can be the begining for something more advanced and much more efficient. Rsync with password it is what we want to do and to accomplish that we will use expect to provide the password to rsync. In this article we will presume that

Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope impressions and Ubuntu Tweak

After one week of Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope on my laptop this distro has left me with one impression which is: excellent! It is just great in comparison with absolutely everything that’s on the market and most of all with the leader, Microsoft Windows. Honestly I am a server fan because of my background and for a long long time I used different linux distros for my desktop but most of all I have used Microsoft Windows because of a development perspective. Anyway, coming back to Ubuntu 9.04 I want to say that if I’m being asked why

Is Botnet fashionable?

A while ago we saw on all news channels how US Power Grid was hacked. Probably everybody looked at that event like to a new file in a neverending story about how some guys are breaking in government’s networks. As I saw along the years everybody says that those crackers are some “stupid guys” or just some “idiots” or I don’t know how. Now, I’m asking this: if they are just some stupid script kiddies, how are the system administrators that have

Oracle buys Sun. The Dawn for MySQL

Oracle buys Sun. Interesting. What about MySQL? What will happen with the biggest open source database engine? Who knows… probably not even they(the new buyers) know at this point what will happen to MySQL. Two of MySQL co-founders have resigned, it is good or it is bad? We think that this is for now at least a clear message and not a good one. We’ll live to see what the future will bring but what’s certain now is that MySQL faith is uncertain. Even if the MySQL 5.1 release was categorized by some as a “disaster” MySQL remains on of the open source’s giants. We are not interested in $7.4bn and not even in those 70k daily downloads of MySQL we are interested in what will happen with the huge amount of code written by millions of developers and this thinking that they can kill the business at any time. As we see the problem for now: that is the question!

SysAdmin shell script – disk usage monitor

Inside each system administrator’s utilities category are some scripts that are a must. One of those scripts is the disk usage monitor. Users will try to grab every possible piece of the disk but you, as system administrator, must keep everything under control. If you agree and you want a script that sends you the disk usage statistic to your mail or maybe just a good idea, check below . Also I want mention here that under the title “SysAdmin shell script” I will

Ubuntu 9.04 – Jaunty Jackalope

Canonical and the community is doing their best to keep their word when is about one release every six months. The current stable release is Ubuntu 8.10 and the version that reaches his end of life is Ubuntu 7.10 but the most important thing is that the new version can already be downloaded (at this time only in beta release) from here: download. As they say any feedback from tests will be appreciated.
With this we only want to say that we are with the eyes on you and thank you for the good job!
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