Linux

Symfony2 and SQLite3 or PDO_SQLite extension error

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If you are getting  

You need to enable either the SQLite3 or PDO_SQLite extension for the profiler to run properly

To resolved it install the php5-sqlite

sudo apt-get install php5-sqlite
#restart the apache
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Installing Nodejs, NPM and Google V8 on UBUNTU

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A) Install the essential compilers, packages and Google V8
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential curl openssl libv8-2.0.3
B) Download and install the Nodejs from source
wget http://nodejs.org/dist/node-v0.4.11.tar.gz
gunzip node-v0.4.11.tar.gz
tar -xf node-v0.4.11.tar

cd  node-v0.4.11
./configure
make
make install
C) Installing the NPM
curl http://npmjs.org/install.sh | sh
Here is the lazy script to get things installed smoothly in your UBUNTU machine.

URL rewriting and add www to .htaccess for hosting multiple domain or multi sites

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Adding the www to URL in .htaccess for hosting multiple domain or multisites and handle www issue for canonical URLs.
    ##Adding the www
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC]
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(.*)$ [NC]
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ "http://www.%1/$1" [L,R=301]

The other way around you can removing the www from URL.

Remove www and rewrite URL for multi-sites or subdomains in .htaccess

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If you are running a Multisites or Subdomains sites this .htaccess RewriteRule code might come in handy specially for purpose of SEO. You can clean up your URL from http://www.yourdomain.com to http://yourdomain.com and remove the “www” with 301 redirect to non-www.
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.+)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://%1/$1 [L,R=301]

If you want to add the www to URLs check this out.

Convert Linux/Unix timestamp to human readable format in PHP

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This functin will help to convert the Linux/Unix timestamp to human readable format:

function unix_timestamp_to_human ($timestamp = "", $format = 'D d M Y - H:i:s')
{
    if (empty($timestamp) || ! is_numeric($timestamp)) $timestamp = time();
    return ($timestamp) ? date($format, $timestamp) : date($format, $timestamp);
}

$unix_time = "1251208071";

echo unix_timestamp_to_human($unix_time); //Return: Tue 25 Aug 2009 - 14:47:51