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Fun with PECL Zip 1.6 - Installation


With PECL Zip you can read, add, delete, set and read archive comment, it’s a very useful package for searching and managing Zipped archive kind of data.
let’s begin with the installation
fire up your PECL installer to install Zip; you’ll see some information verbosed while installed PECL Zip like the following

  1. wget http://pecl.php.net/get/zip &&  tar -zxvf zip && cd zip-1.6.0/ && phpize5 && sudo ./configure && sudo  make && sudo make install

During the installation you will be flooded with verbosed information ; it’s useful to watch and try to understand what’s going behind the scene; keep your eye on the verbose to see if any error popup like missing library or permission problem, if the installation went fine; at the end you will see
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Posted on Thursday, July 27th, 2006
Under: Code, HowTo, PECL, PHP | 2 Comments »

UMLing your PHP project


First I decided to role tutorial from scratch about UML and PHP but while doing the research I found at least three tutorials much better of what I could write so I’ll be quoting others

What is UML?

Umbrello docs - The Unified Modelling Language (UML) is a diagramming language or notation to specify, visualize and document models of Object Orientated software systems. UML is not a development method, that means it does not tell you what to do first and what to do next or how to design your system, but it helps you to visualize your design and communicate with others. UML is controlled by the Object Management Group (OMG) and is the industry standard for graphically describing software.

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Posted on Saturday, July 15th, 2006
Under: HowTo, PHP | 3 Comments »