Pressing F5

I’m posting this hoping that is will save somebody several wasted hours of effort.
Do not use the original DBDesigner4 download available on the fabForce.net website. Instead download the dbdesigner-fork package from here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dbdesigner-fork/
Once you have unpacked it. Edit the bin/startdbd_using_kernel2.6 script and remove the assume kernel 2.4.1 text:
Original file contents: LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1 LANG=en_US.ISO8859-1 LD_LIBRARY_PATH=./Linuxlib/ ./DBDesignerFork
Edited contents: LANG=en_US.ISO8859-1 [...]

Seems by just renaming the soapclient class and constructor you can ‘patch’ NuSoap to work with PHP5.
I’ve renamed the constructor and the class to soap_client and it all works.
Thanks to Vivek Jishtu for the original tip.
http://vivekjishtu.blogspot.com
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The good guys at drupal.org have released version 5.0 of this amazing php/mysql CMS.
Drupal.org
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According to him some of the code in PSPlant works like this:
“instead of telling me something, go over there, build a phone, write to me with instructions on how to build another phone, and then I’ll call you”

I’ve been looking for an offline or pdf version of the Drupal API found here: http://api.drupal.org/
In the end I gave up and followed the advice of a fellow Drupal developer and created an offline copy of the Drupal docs using Httrack: http://www.httrack.com/.
Please remember to only use this occasionally as you are effectively hammering Drupal’s servers.
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I’ve taken the decision to switch from Symfony to Drupal for my latest personal project.
Although Symfony seemed really promising at first I found myself constantly fighting against quirks here and there that slowed down development. I’m not saying its not a good PHP MVC framework to build your next web project with. It just wasn’t [...]

Thanks to Digg.com I stumbled across this blog entry on the theblogjoint.com. It list some of the best wordpress plugins around.
Personally I’ve replaced my adsense plugin as a consequence and haven’t looked back. Adsense Deluxe offers amazing flexibility whilst being very easy to integrate.
A few others I want to try are:
wp-notable - social bookmarking automated [...]

Through Digg.com I found this great blog entry on AdSense alternatives.
If Google AdSense is making you enough money or fancy something different check out some of these alternate advertising providers.
I’ll be trying a few over the next few months and will report back on how successful they’ve been.
http://www.econsultant.com/
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Just stumbled across this error on my first step to setting up my Symfony environment on a CentOS 4.3 system. I’ve decided to blog about it so that google can index it and hopefully help somebody else.
PHP Fatal error: Class ‘DomDocument’ not found in /usr/share/pear/symfony/vendo
r/propel-generator/classes/propel/phing/AbstractPropelDataMo delTask.php on line
406
The solution? Make sure you have php-xml installed. [...]