PHP Tips and Tricks

1. Switch off:
1.1 Zend Optimizer
1.2 Zend Data Cache
2. Stop apache
zendctl.sh stop-apache
3. Download or compile xdebug and put it into
/usr/local/zend/lib/php_extensions
4. Add config into php.ini
/usr/local/zend/etc/php.ini

zend_extension=”/usr/local/zend/lib/php_extensions/xdebug.so”

[xdebug]
xdebug.remote_enable=1
xdebug.remote_host=127.0.0.1
xdebug.remote_port=9000
xdebug.remote_handler=dbgp
xdebug.show_local_vars=On
xdebug.var_display_max_data=10000
xdebug.var_display_max_depth=20

5. Start apache
zendctl.sh start-apache
Compiled xdebug
Source: http://akrabat.com/php/some-notes-on-zend-server-ce-for-mac-os-x/
In case you get such a warning:

PHP Warning: Module ‘Zend Data Cache’ already loaded in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning: Zend Extension Manager: Cannot load [...]

Finally!
Now we are on Dedicated Server hosted at EZZI.net.
Box is cheapest one, but it’s much better than VDS at VPSLink.
Within next months we are planning to upgrade box to increase RAM and setup RAID.

Experiencing problem concerning .htm files in goDaddy shared hosting.
Scripts that partner is using written in not standard way and all files have .htm extensions don’t know why!
Reason can be somehow related to SEO. But it does not matter since problem exists and need solution ASAP.
GoDaddy support is telling that it’s possible to solve problem via [...]

VPSLink.
Quite stable one.
Uptime is 99%.
During last month noticed that file system I/O is heavy and taking 1-3 sec only for response even if there only simple hello word in php script.
Might be related to small RAM (256) but sime ls -al command also taking long to run when there are 10-15 files in folder.
Thinking. We will [...]