Aug 19, 2010
Yesterday our Product Manager faced a strange problem on his Windows 7 box. He created a site (which was a PHP application) but was not able to browse the site using http://localhost . He was getting HTTP status code 503 (Service not available). When...
Tags: IIS
Aug 06, 2010
The SQL Server team just announced the release of their latest PHP driver for SQL Server. Details about the release can be found at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sqlphp/archive/2010/08/04/microsoft-drivers-for-php-for-sql-server-2-0-released.aspx . A major...
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Tags: PHPSQL Server Driver for PHPSql Server
Jun 19, 2010
One of the reason I love MySQL is the fact that it is so easy to install. Take the MSI, run it, invoke MySQL Server Instance Configuration Wizard and done. I adore this simplicity and this enables me to focus on core problems rather than setting up the...
Tags: MySQL
Jun 11, 2010
I have seen so many post in our IIS forum mentioning that after moving to PHP5.3 they are not able to connect to MySQL database. So this means a simple program like the one below doesn’t work: <?php // hostname or ip of server (for local testing, localhost...
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Tags: PHPMySQL
May 18, 2010
The support for WINCACHE has been added into Sugar Community Edition 6.0 Beta bits. The latest bits which supports WINCACHE out of the box can be downloaded from http://www.sugarforge.org/frs/?group_id=6 . Remember Sugar 6.0 bits available there are still...
Tags: PHPWINCACHEmediawikisugar
May 10, 2010
This is a very common problem which most of us has studied in our academic days. This we learn as part of process synchronization or concurrency. For the sake of this discussion let’s assume we have multiple process accessing common data in a shared memory...
Tags: PHPWINCACHE
May 04, 2010
As you all know we did a Beta2 release of WINCACHE 1.1 few days back. This is a very important release with lots of bug fixes and new features. I would encourage all current users of WINCACHE to upgrade to Beta2 latest build. I have already blogged about...
Tags: WINCACHE
Apr 29, 2010
As you all know we did a Beta2 release of WINCACHE 1.1 today. This is a very important release with lots of bug fixes and new features. I would encourage all current users of WINCACHE to upgrade to latest Beta2 build. With this release we have File Change...
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Tags: PHPWINCACHE
Mar 15, 2010
Now that WINCACHE 1.1 Beta is released and it has support for user cache, you can enhance Drupal’s performance by integrating WINCACHE user cache. For this you will need to have two things already setup: Drupal running Drupal extension CacheRouter configured...
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Tags: PHPDrupalPerformance
Mar 05, 2010
Attachment: wincache.zip
Now that we have WINCACHE 1.1 Beta release which supports user as well as session cache, I am going to tell you a way to integrate session cache with Joomla using WINCACHE. Joomla has the way of integrating session cache based on user cache implementation...
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Tags: PHPJoomlaPerformance
Mar 05, 2010
Attachment: wincache.zip
Now that we have WINCACHE 1.1 Beta released which has got implementation for both user and session cache, one can easily take advantage of WINCACHE user cache and increase performance of Joomla. In this post I am going to tell you steps to use WINCACHE...
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Tags: PHPJoomlaPerformance
Feb 08, 2010
I hear a lot about the problem where web server (IIS) throws an error saying that PHP script has timed out in our forums . Let’s try to understand the reason behind this. I will be using a Windows 7 Enterprise machine (having IIS 7.5) to explain this...
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Tags: PHPIISFastCGIPHP Script TimeOut
Feb 01, 2010
Few days back I made some code commit (code check-in) to WINCACHE SVN depot on PECL. I committed the test infrastructure to test WINCACHE. The entire test code can be see inside the folder at http://svn.php.net/viewvc/pecl/wincache/trunk/tests/ . Let...
Tags: PHPWINCACHE TestingPHP testing
Jan 26, 2010
I recently asked user of WINCACHE to give feedback on soon-to-be-released bits of WINCACHE 1.0.1 . We got mails from lot of people who came forward to help us with the testing. I would like to thank all of you there who helped us in testing the critical...
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Tags: PHPIISWINCACHE 1.0.1
Jan 25, 2010
I get a lot of forum posting in our IIS forum asking how to develop PHP application using Microsoft SQL Server. Today I am going to explain basics of developing PHP application on Microsoft SQL Server. Let me start by stating one thing, developing PHP...
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Tags: PHPIISPHP extensionSQL Server Driver for PHPSql Server