Mental notes to myself

I’m looking again to hire PHP developers.
Common stuff:

• You must be living in or around Montreal!
• You are not a freelancer looking for a contract job. These are full time positions.
• You must love music, games, pool, PHP

For Senior PHP Developer

• You have at least 5 years of PHP experience within a team.
• You are very proficient in Javascript.

For Intermediate PHP Developer

• You have at least 2 years of PHP and JAVA experience within a team.
• You can integrate HTML and proficient in CSS. Can handle browser issues, mobile browsers etc.

If you are the one, please contact me at hyayli _AT_ touchtunes.com with your resume/CV.

I’ve just received news from Mikael Johansson that the new builds of pecl/memcache 2.2.4 stable and 3.0.2 beta is out with memcache.php

go grab your copy!

Your good comments from all over the world about memcache.php is amazing. Thank you all!

I’ve recently received a contribution from Michael Gauthier. I took the liberty to tweak a bit and now memcache.php can flush individual server (no flush all servers yet).

File is now updated and you can get it from here.

PS: I didn’t receive any feedback from pecl guys about my previous update. I’ll post this to them again. I’ll announce when this version is in pecl/memcache CVS.

I’m receiving great comments from everyone since I’ve posted my memcache.php script. Thank you everyone.
I’ve just finished updating the memcache.php to support key deletion.
File is now updated and you can get it from here.
It’ll be updated on the cvs of pecl/memcache soon.

enjoy.

I’m very happy to announce that memcache.php is commited to the CVS of pecl/memcache. Woot woot!

I’ll be maintaining the code through the time as well. Hope you guys/gals find it useful.

PS: I’m planning to add more functionality to the memcache.php in the coming days. Candidates:

• Delete/Expire a cached value
• Move stuff from server to server

Let me know if you have any other ideas.

After the suggestion by Lukas, I’ve contacted PECL/memcache authors Antony Dovgal and Mikael Johansson. Mikael sent me a reply accepting my submission.
I’m looking forward to the day that memcache.php will appear in the pecl/memcache distribution.
I’ll keep you posted.

Update on memcache.php:

• Small bug fixed on parsing the bucket Ids.
• Distribution license is now PHP license.

For a long time I was looking for a nice web interface like the apc.php (comes with the apc’s source) that displays whole nine yards of stats. The only good tool is memcache-tool from the danga guys. It’s quite complete but I guess I’m too lazy to go on the command line.

Anyways, I decided to rip write my own. Totally based on the original apc.php (I even recycled some functions) and apart from completeness, here is a memcache.php that you can get stats and dump from multiple memcache servers.
Here is a screenshot:
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If you think that the maxlength parameter in the documentation of oci_bind_by_name is optional, see this example and think again.
Lets say you have your column names in an array already and you want to bind them in a loop smartly.
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It was good 2 days at PHP Quebec Conf here in Montreal.

A lot of great sessions!!!!
My highlights:
- Great session by Eli White – High Performance PHP & MySQL.
- Really nice 2 sessions by Marc Wandschneider (The I18N and memcached sessions)
Some sessions I’ve attended were really really bad. I’m not going to name names
But overall, I guess it was worth taking 2 days from work and going to the php conf.

Here is the part about Sun and PHP:
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If you’re getting an error like this one below on Windows PHP commandline make sure that you are not running an apache server that uses apc on the same machine!

[apc-error] apc_shm_create: shmget(0, 8388608, 658) failed: No error. It is possible that the chosen SHM segment size is higher than the operation system allows. Linux has usually a default limit of 32MB per segment.

This was hard to figure! Tested with PHP 5.2.5, APC 3.1.0-dev.