Build PHPDocumentor into Eclipse

July 4th, 2007 by Aaron

Well, maybe thats a little bit misleading - actually you’re running PHPdocumentor as an external tool.

This wiki article gives the steps to configure the documenting package into your eclipse instance. I’ve followed these instructions and find it almost near perfect.

However, at (”the triangle”), I’ve been thinking about implementing a new method for documenting. Instead of making our output directory relative to the current path, we’ll be path-ing it to the release folder’s documentation subfolder. After each project goes to production, it’ll be up to the developer to run and update the newest documentation. Part of the development cycle will be creating the documentation and correcting any errors. I look forward to this - and thanks to those guys for documenting and tutorial-izing it.

PHP Command Line Shell Experiments

July 4th, 2007 by Aaron

Having been a shell, perl and batch scripter before I started PHP, I’ve always enjoyed the CLI life. I actually created an interactive or script-able interface for creating all of my projects at (”the triangle”) - hopefully I’ll link to it here when I write it up.

I wanted to experiment with PHP’s Interactive command line interface a little bit more - anyone can write a script that reads in STDIN and the like, but is there any use in having an interactive CL environment? I tried out PHP’s standard interactive, plus two additional php packages.

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PEAR Installation Woes

July 4th, 2007 by Aaron

I’ve found the need to do some installs from some PEAR channels, so I jumped into my command line on PHP 5.2.0 and windows xp sp2. I ran c:\php5.2\go-pear - which would launch the go-pear.bat file. I executed with standard permissions, and the unthinkable happened - a PEAR FAILURE. OH NO! But I was able to get around it. Lets look at the details of the error, and my lazy man’s way of solving it:

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Tamper Data Firefox Extension - is it worth it?

July 4th, 2007 by Aaron

As you can probably tell from my last test of a firefox extension here, I am constantly looking for new tools to make my job more accurate (see: lazier). Another similar extension I came across is Tamper Data. Tamper Data doesn’t have alot of documentation, so it was harder to actually determine the uses of this extension. Some tutorials on the net claimed that Tamper Data was better than Live Headers or Load Time Analyzer. So, I decided to try it out. Lets see some screenshots and some features:

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Type-Safe PHP? Hrm…

July 2nd, 2007 by Aaron

As you can probably remember, lately I’ve been writing about PHP’s object handling, patterns, etc. - but I lightly glossed over the whole forced typing of variables - and how that relates to PHP. While looking for solutions to this, I came across a great blog entry that solves this issue - but I’ve gotta bring up some counter points… Finally, I’m also wondering: what are the real important needs for a strongly typed object?

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