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Using Oracle Driver with Zend Framework

rob kunkle — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 21:49:42 +0000

Spent far too much time fiddling around with configuration options to get this to work.

In your application.ini file, you will need something that looks like this.

resources.db.adapter = Oracle
resources.db.params.username = myusername       
resources.db.params.password = mypassword
resources.db.params.dbname = my.host.name.com:portnumber/mydbinstance

notice that you don’t need a “resources.db.paramas.host” line here. The “mydbinstance” part comes from your tnsnames.ora file…

mydbinstance =
  (DESCRIPTION =
    (ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = my.host.name.com)(PORT = 1771))
    (CONNECT_DATA =
      (SERVER = DEDICATED)
      (SERVICE_NAME = mydbinstance)
    )
  )

Hope this saves someone some time!

Configuring vhosts and fixing zf.exe tool with initial setup of Zend Server CE and Zend Framework 1.9.1 on Windows.

rob kunkle — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:18:33 +0000

I’ve just spent a few hours wading through what should otherwise be simple.

First of all, download Zend Server CE you can get it here:

http://www.zend.com/en/products/server-ce/downloads

I chose the PHP 5.3 version.

Start the install, and choose custom install if you want to also install MySQL Server and PhpMyAdmin.

Once the install is complete, you would think that you would be ready to go…Should be simple…Zend Framework on running Zend Server. Not so!

First of all, at the time of this writing, Zend Framework 1.9.0 and 1.9.1 have a bug which makes it impossible to use the command line tool to do anything other than create a project on a windows system. If you are installing on Windows, you will need to manually add a few lines to the

Zend/Tool/Project/Provider/Abstract.php

file. This is a pain, but I’m sure it will be fixed soon.

You can get all the details the fix for it here:

http://zendframework.com/issues/browse/ZF-7465

I used the second fix, and it works fine. If you don’t patch this, you will get an error when you try to create a module after you’ve created your project, and you will probably tear your hair out finding the problems.

Next, once you patch, and create a project, you would think that it would be easy to create a virtual host for your new project. After unsuccessfully trying many different snippets of advice, I finally came across this, buried in the “best practices” part of the installation guide here:

http://files.zend.com/help/Zend-Server-Community-Edition/configuring_zend_framework.htm

First, assuming that you created your project in the web root of your new installation, and your project is called “yourprojectname” you would cut and paste the following text directly into the very bottom of your

C:\Program Files\Zend\Apache2\conf\http.conf

file. I’m not sure why this is considered a best practice (as opposed to using /extra/httpd-vhost.conf file), but it works.

Listen 84
 
84>
 
    DocumentRoot "C:\Program Files\Zend\Apache2\htdocs\yourprojectname\public"
 
    "C:\Program Files\Zend\Apache2\htdocs\yourprojectname\public">
 
        Order allow,deny
 
        Allow from all
 
    AllowOverride all
 
</Directory>
 
</VirtualHost>

Now your new project will be served on http://localhost:84/

Next, you need to have an .htaccess file in the \public directory of the new project you just created. So if the module you created was “mynewmodule”, you would create a file called .htaccess in

C:\Program Files\Zend\Apache2\htdocs\mynewproject\public

If there is already contents in that file, you should comment out existing code first, then past this below:

# public/.htaccess

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -s [OR]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -l [OR]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d

RewriteRule ^.*$ – [NC,L]

RewriteRule ^.*$ /index.php [NC,L]

Whew! That’s it!

Remember to restart your apache server, you should now see your zend framework homepage at http://localhost:84/

You should be able to get started coding now!

Dead Simple as3flickr, Flickr API Example

rob kunkle — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 10:19:30 +0000

I’ve finally had a chance to start messing around with the ActionScript 3 Flickr API, as3flickr. One thing I noted right away is that there aren’t too many dead simple examples of how to use the library. Most of the examples out there dive right into authentication, which isn’t a good place for the newbie to start as it isn’t required for many applictions.

A better place to start, in my option, is to just get a set of photos, and return data about the photos. Extremely useful, dead simple. Here goes.

public static var FLICKR_API_KEY:String         = "whatever your api string is";
public static var FLICKR_API_SECRET:String      = "whatever your api secret is";
 
public var flickrService:FlickrService = new FlickrService(FLICKR_API_KEY);
 
 
private function startFlickr():void
{
        
        flickrService.secret = FLICKR_API_SECRET;
        flickrService.addEventListener( FlickrResultEvent.PHOTOSETS_GET_PHOTOS, onPhotosetGetPhotos);
        flickrService.photosets.getPhotos(‘a set id number goes here’);
        
}
 
private function onPhotosetGetPhotos (event:FlickrResultEvent):void 
{
        var photoSet:PhotoSet = event.data.photoSet;    
        photos = new ArrayCollection (photoSet.photos);
 
        for each (var p:Photo in photos)
        {
                trace(p.title);
                trace(p.id);
        }
}

Changing the default setting for del.icio.us bookmarks app to Do Not Share

rob kunkle — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 09:22:07 +0000

When I tag a page using del.icio.us, I always have to click “do not share” if I don’t want the link showing up on facebook and elsewhere. Annoying!

This can be changed.

Open firefox. Type in

about:config

into the address bar. Right click anywhere on the page. From the menu that appears, select New->Interger.

It will ask for a name of the new preference. Enter:

extensions.ybookmarks@yahoo.sharemode

It will ask for a value next. Type

That’s it! Now the delicious app will default to having the “Do Not Share” option selected. I really wish they made this more straight forward.

what is this all about?

rob kunkle — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 09:36:15 +0000

So I’ve been wanting, for some time now, to put together a blog, the sole purpose of which is to record my geeky finds from around the internet. Others have saved me countless hours by posting their solutions, I just want to give something back.

My plan here is to not waste a lot of time customizing this site; I spent 10 minutes getting this blog in place and I don’t want to spend any more time. I don’t want a headache when I go to upgrade to the next version of wordpress.

This blog is all about keeping it simple and saving time.

So there you have it, the stock theme, plaintxtBlog, by Scott Allan Wallick. Thanks Scott!