The title is a bit of a red herring as PHP has more than 9 magic methods, but these will get you off to a good start using PHP’s magic methods. It might be magic, but no wands are required!
File does not exist: /usr/share/apache2/icons/ ...
Which was really odd, because my webroot is somewhere else completely!
Eventually I spotted a /icons entry in the configuration for mod_alias in apache, which intercepts all requests to /icons on any virtual host, and rewrites it. Err, thanks? Renaming the directory to “images” solved the problem in this instance, and I hope if you googled for an error message, you will find this page and be able to fix it equally quickly :)
I’m working on a little hobby project which needs to know what the weather is going to be. I had a look around and noticed that the MetOffice had released a new API called DataPoint. They have a selection of APIs, including some map overlays and some actual weather data (more on that another day) but I was especially charmed by their text APIs – this is basically the basis of weather forecasts used everywhere :)
aptitude install php5-pear and then get tangled in dev packages (clue: look which libcurl you have already installed to figure out which of a long list of -dev packages to choose), managing finally to emerge with a pecl install http that completes successfully with the words:
configuration option "php_ini" is not set to php.ini location
You should add "extension=http.so" to php.ini
I’ve been using Ubuntu for some time however, and we don’t put settings straight into php.ini, there’s a directory called /etc/php5/conf.d/ where all the various module configurations live, or you can enable things just for when PHP is called by apache or from the CLI. However today I hopped into /etc/php5/ and saw this:
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├── apache2
├── cli
├── conf.d
└── mods-available
Hmmm … mods-available ? Continue reading
Today I needed to pull email addresses for people who had signed up to a thing out of MySQL and into MailChimp so that I could actually email them about the thing. MySQL actually has a very cute feature for exporting the results of an SQL query as a CSV file, which I had to look up to remember how to do it. It goes something like this: Continue reading
This post follows an earlier entry introducing the basics OOP and what that looks like in PHP. This time around we’ll look at some more advanced concepts and some more practical examples of building code, covering use of constructors and how to add access modifiers in to control how calling code can operate on your objects. We’ll also show off how to create static methods and properties and, perhaps more importantly, illustrate applications of these features.