set_magic_quotes_runtime() is deprecated

Hello,

If you’re using Zend Framework 1.7.x (I was using 1.7.4), PHP 5.3.0 and Zend_Cache, you’ll probably see an error like set_magic_quotes_runtime() is deprecated.

You can easily fix this error by editing Zend/Cache/Backend/File.php and in the _fileGetContents method commenting the following two blocks of code:

if (function_exists(’get_magic_quotes_runtime’)) {
  $mqr = @get_magic_quotes_runtime();
  @set_magic_quotes_runtime(0);
}

and

if (function_exists(’set_magic_quotes_runtime’)) {
  @set_magic_quotes_runtime($mqr);
}

Additionally you could search for all the set_magic_quotes_runtime function calls and comment them out.

You could also update to the latest Zend Framework (which now is 1.8.4) which has this issue fixed.

As usual feel free to drop any thoughts in the comments section of this post !

Installing PHP 5.3.0 on Zend Server CE 4 on Mac OSX 10.5 Leopard

As you already know PHP 5.3.0 is out, with lots of interesting features like namespaces and closures and other cool stuff !

I wanted to give it a try but I also meant to keep my existing Zend Server CE 4 installation.

Because of that I had to compile the new PHP 5.3.0 on my Leopard based Mac…

Find out why an apparently easy task has taken me over 2 hours of debugging, below !

Compiling PHP 5.3.0 proved somewhat difficult as I ran into a number of problems like MySQL 32/64 bits architecture, not finding a libraries like libxml in the system, other 32/64 bits incompatibilities and so on.

My troubles started because I had a 64bit MySQL version installed on my Mac (it came with the system) ! PHP itself compiles as 32bits and if you try to compile it on 64bits you will run into other library incompatibilities (btw, can’t wait for Snow Leopard to come out… all will be 64bits !).

After figuring that out, the rest was preety easy to fix !

I will tell you the exact steps you need to make in order to install PHP 5.3.0 over your Zend Server CE 4 on the Mac OSX 10.5 Leopard operating system:

1. download PHP 5.3.0
2. download the latest MySQL Community Server from Mysql (I used 5.1.36)
3. open up a Terminal window and go into super user mode (sudo su and enter your login password)
4. move the downloaded mysql archive to /usr/local (mv /Users/[your_username]/mysql-5.1.36-osx10.5-x86.tar.gz /usr/local/)
5. run cd /usr/local
6. run tar xzf mysql-5.1.36-osx10.5-x86.tar.gz
7. move the downloaded php archive to /usr/local (mv /Users/[your_username]/php-5.3.0.tar.gz /usr/local/)
8. run tar xzf php-5.3.0.tar.gz
9. run cd php-5.3.0
   
10. run the following configure command:

UPDATE: Download the configure command for PHP 5.3.0 from here (because FCKEditor keeps replacing — with -)

11. run make
12. run make test
13. If you get an error about libmysqlclient.16.dylib not beeing of the correct architecture do the following two steps:
14. [optional] run  rm /usr/local/mysql/lib/libmysqlclient.16.dylib
15. [optional] run ln -s /usr/local/mysql-5.1.36-osx10.5-x86/lib/libmysqlclient.16.dylib /usr/local/mysql/lib/libmysqlclient.16.dylib
16. run make install
17. exit super user mode by running: exit
18. run apachectl restart
19. at this point you should have PHP 5.3.0 running

Hope this quick tutorial helps you, as I’ve spent around 2-3 hours figuring out all the crap MacOSX has thrown at me !

I ran into a different problem afterwards, namely Zend Framework 1.8, PHP 5.3.0 and Zend_Cache do not work together out of the box and spit out this error message: "set_magic_quotes_runtime() is deprecated"; see this fix here !

If you have any problems or you would like to share your experience with installing or using PHP 5.3.0, know that your comments are welcome !

Howto (prop)set SVN:ignore from the command-line !?

If you’re a developer you’ve probably worked with SVN.

And if you’ve worked with SVN you’ve probably had the problem that it’s commiting and updating more than you want.

So here’s a quick way to ignore the files you dislike:

• If you want to ignore just a file, for example "config.php" from the "config" directory:

svn propset svn:ignore "config.php" /path/to/config

• If you want to ignore all the files in a directory, for example the "cache" directory:

svn propset svn:ignore "*" /path/to/cache

(quick warning here ! "*" is different from "*.*"; the latter implies that you have files or directories with extensions and it will not match a file/dir with no extension)

• If you’re an Apple Fanboy like me than this one’s for you; MacOS has the annoying habbit of creating .DS_Store files in every directory, including those under SVN

edit "~/.subversion/config" with your favorite editor (vi, nano or even TextEdit)

search for the line that contains "global-ignores" and add ".DS_Store" at the end of the row

save it and you’re done; no more .DS_Store junk in your repository !

I hope this quick guide helps you. I’ve written this because most so called coders out there use tools like TortoiseSVN and have no clue how to use SVN from the command line.

If you have other usefull SVN command-line tips, please share them in the comments !