By using the API created in part 1, integration with CakePHP or any other site becomes really easy. As said in part 1, we want functionality to add posts on the site and some user management. For this I already had 2 models, ‘News’ and ‘Member’, these models do everything related to user management and news posts on the [...]
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Aug 132011
Aug 132011
I’ve been using SMF in combination with my personal sites for years now, I like how fast it is and how easy it is to manage. But one thing SMF lacks is a good API with most off all, documentation. In this blog post I’ll show what changes(additions) need to be made so that we can create and manage [...]
Some of you are probably wonder, what does CDN stand for? It stands for ‘content delivery network’. The trick I will be describing here is how to simulate a CDN. What we want to accomplish is having a free performance increase and not spend any money on hardware. For the real and complete definition of a ‘Content Delivery Network’ [...]
If you’re a developer like me writing his own apps for his phone, then you’re out of luck with the default windows 7 phone. To ‘unlock’ it you have to sign up for a developer account on APP HUB, meaning you have to pay $99. Lucky for us, a group of people quickly found a way to unlock the phone, [...]
Here we are, part 4b. By using XDebug, a pecl extension, our php code can be analyzed pinpointing the slower functions. Installing XDebug is easy: pecl install xdebug Now, you’ll have to enable it in the php.ini file: extension=xdebug.so xdebug.profiler_enable=1 xdebug.profiler_output_name=profiler-%s-%t.cache xdebug.profiler_output_dir=/tmp/xdebug Don’t forget to create the directory and give apache enough permissions to write in it. So after restarting [...]