Category: php

  • Adventures in Continuous Integration (PHP, Xinc, Phing etc)

    I’ve had cron’ed unit tests running for ages which happily spam me when stuff breaks – and likewise adding e.g. phpdoc generation and so on into the mix wouldn’t be too hard. Anyway, for want of something better to do with my time I thought I’d look into CI in a bit more depth for…

  • Google News Sitemap + WordPress

    Annoyingly the current version of the google-news-sitemap plugin for WordPress (v1.4) doesn’t work with some silly XML namespace error reported by google. See http://wordpress.org/support/topic/364929 and effectively the ‘patch’ on the Google Support forum thing which works fine (there are two bits of the plugin which need updating – whcih correlate to the two parts mentioned…

  • Silly SoapClient

    Sam made some changes to a SOAP service one customer has – and suddenly our automated tests kept failing. “WTF?” we thought. We persistently got the same error (e.g. Fatal error: SOAP-ERROR: Encoding: object hasn’t ‘SortResults’ property in ….) yet the generated WSDL file (when viewed through a web browser etc) no longer has SortResults in…

  • Still looking for a PHP contractor….

    At work I’m still looking for a short term PHP contractor. Perhaps I’m being unrealistic in my expectations/requirements (rate/location/duration/skills etc), but nevertheless…. As I’ve not found anyone via normal channels (twitter/phpwm user group etc) I thought I’d turn to a random recruitment agency (who I’d spoken to a week or so ago). Yesterday I interviewed…

  • Random PHP project progress

    Random php development musing