Life and tech

Because I can never remember how to do this and because it’s not that easy to find on google I have copied the info here.
If you want to add a folder to the application directory and then have classes within that directory autoload, for instance you add a folder ‘objects’ (application/systems) that contain classes like Application_System_One. This would work...

So since upgrading to Mavericks I have lost the ability to use PHP’s MSSQL and PDO_DBLIB database extensions. I had previously set this up on Lion/Mountain Lion.
You’ll need to download the latest Xcode from the Mac App Store and then run it and install the command line tools. This will allow you to build the packages below....

In the past I have created custom log files for my PHP applications, mainly because I’d never bothered to read up on syslog and I wasn’t using it for major stuff.
This time I decided to do the reading and syslog really does have lots of benefits and is just as quick to set up as custom logging....

It’s been a good while since my last post and as I look back over the posts I’ve made I realise that in only one post have I actually talked about coding. The post I am talking about is the one on using PHP and Curl to login to a website...