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Zend Debugger Safari Toolbar

Chris M. — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 21:42:53 +0000

Update: It turns out Safari is more problematic than Firefox, so I’ve switched back. I have no plans to finish this project. Feel free to fork it on GitHub.

When Safari 5 came out I decided to make the switch. The new Safari developer tools rival Firebug, Safari now supports extensions, and Firefox has been causing all sorts of problems for me lately (20-second freezes, choppy video, etc). There were three things that I knew I couldn’t live without…

Those were:

AdBlock
Delicious.com Integration
The Zend Studio Toolbar

The first two were ported to Safari within days (if not hours) of the Safari 5 release. The third is likely to take a while, so I decided to put together my own version for the time-being. Right now it’s very much in an “alpha” stage. It only supports the “debug current page” command, and it hasn’t been tested all that thoroughly. That said, I plan on developing this over the next few weeks to mirror most of the features available in the current Zend Studio Toolbar for Firefox and MSIE.

I’m also adding some features of my own. Namely, the toolbar remembers what domains you’ve enabled debugging on, and only shows itself on those domains. There’s a browser button that you can use to toggle debugging, and in the future I want to add an indicator when the page you’re on supports debugging.

If you develop with Zend Studio and Safari, please check out the current version of the extension. I could really use some feedback from other folks (particularly those who have other workflows from me).

Calculating the difference in days between two Zend_Date objects

Chris M. — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:46:12 +0000

This just came up on #zftalk, and it appears that the information out there is either incomplete or incorrect, so I thought I’d just put out a simple solution. Here’s a simple way to calculate the difference between two Zend_Date objects (in days):

$jan1 = new Zend_Date('1.1.2009', Zend_Date::DATES);
echo "\nJanuary first: ", $jan1->toString();

$christmas = new Zend_Date('25.12.2009', Zend_Date::DATES);
echo "\nChristmas is on: ", $christmas->toString();

$diff = $christmas->sub($jan1);
echo "\nNumber of days: ", $diff / 60 / 60 / 24;

Installing Zend Server & Zend Framework on OS X

Chris M. — Sun, 03 May 2009 18:10:45 +0000

This post is mostly a reminder to myself, but I thought I’d put it out there just in case other people wanted some help:

Installing Zend Server CE

If Zend Server is already installed, you need to remove it:

For older versions of Zend Server:
1. Run /Applications/ZendServer/bin/zendctl.sh stop
2. Remove /etc/zce.rc
3. Double-check that no instances are running (you can use ps ax|grep -i zend)
For newer versions of Zend Server
1. Run /usr/local/zend/bin/uninstall.sh

Now download the latest version of the Zend Server CE Installer and run the installer

Link the CLI binary so you can use PHP from the command line:

sudo ln -s /usr/local/zend/bin/php-cli /usr/bin/php
Please note that this step is optional

Installing the Zend Framework

Now download the latest version of the Zend Framework

Unzip and copy the following files:

library/Zend to /usr/local/zend/share/ZendFramework/library/Zend
extras/library/ZendX to /usr/local/zend/share/ZendFramework/library/ZendX
bin to /usr/local/zend/share/ZendFramework/bin
Please note that if you don’t need the zf command line tool, and the version of the Zend Framework that came with Zend Server is up-to-date, these steps are unnecessary

Finally, link the zf.sh file so you can access it easily:

sudo ln -s /usr/local/zend/share/ZendFramework/bin/zf.sh /usr/bin/zf

That’s it for now. Hope that helps someone else out.