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Symfony2 and SQLite3 or PDO_SQLite extension error

Iman — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 14:56:04 +0000

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

Iman — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 13:45:14 +0000

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.

PHP custom debugging functions

Iman — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 15:40:45 +0000

Here is another debugging helper for Symfony, CodeIgniter, Kohana and Zend frameworks or your applications. Normally you would use var_dump() or print _r() for debugging but dumping the data without xdebug always a pain.

I use these custom functions depending on type of data whether an array or a class to debug my code which makes it more friendly and human-readable.

<?php

function my_print_r ($param, $bool = TRUE) {

    pre( print_r($param, $bool), FALSE);

}

function my_var_dump ($param) {

    pre(var_dump($param));

}

function my_debug ($param) {

    if (is_object($param)) {

        pre('Object: ['.get_class($param). '] => '

           . print_r(array_keys(get_object_vars($param)), TRUE), FALSE);

    }

}

function my_debug_in ($param) {

    if (is_object($param)) {

        pre('Object: [' .get_class($param).' ] => Array', FALSE);

        foreach (get_object_vars($param) as $key) {

            my_debug($key);

        }

    }

    if (is_array($param)) {

        my_print_r($param);

    }

}

function my_class($name = NULL) {

    $class = new ReflectionClass($name);

    my_print_r(Reflection::export($class));

}

function pre($param, $bool = TRUE) {

    if (!ini_get('xdebug.default_enable') || !$bool) {

        echo "<pre>".$param ."</pre>\n";

    }else {

        echo $param;

    }

}

?>

Symfony and sfDoctrineGuard missing installation point

Iman — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 13:39:01 +0000

If you are getting the 500 error (Call to undefined method myUser::isAnonymous.) after installing the sfGuardDoctrine plugin i.e

Add these lines in your apps/app name/config/factories.yml to make to pluging to work.

all:

  user:

   class:  sfGuardSecurityUser

Using th native MySQL ENUM type in Symfony 1.4 and Doctrine

Iman — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 17:18:14 +0000

To use the native MySQL ENUM type in Symfony and Doctrine you will have to update your "project/config/databases.yml" and add the "use_native_enum" directive under "attributes" i.e:

      attributes:        

         use_native_enum: true

         use_dql_callbacks: true

         default_table_collate: utf8_general_ci

         default_table_charset: utf8

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Daryush Shokof the director of Iran Zendan gone missing in Germany

Iman — Sun, 30 May 2010 18:39:22 +0000

Iranian director Daryush Shokof has disappeared after his latest film “Iran Zendan” was premiered three weeks ago in the cinema “Babylon” in Berlin. The Iran Zendan draws a very true picture about inhumanity of torture and rape in the prisons of the Islamic Republic in Iran.

Daryush lives in Berlin for decades and headed to Paris last week. He had planned to board the train from Cologne to Paris and since then he is missing! The last contact with his friends and family was made at the Cologne railway station.

Iran and US hostage exchange

Iman — Fri, 21 May 2010 13:57:57 +0000

Just a day after Iran and France exchanged hostage the Islamic Republic of Iran managed to force US releasing two of IRI spy’s held for a few years in Iraq. It does not take a rocket scientist to figure out that the release of Iranians in Iraq was an exchange with allowing the mothers of three arrested American hikers in Iran visiting their kids.

Iran and France hostage exchange and west deals with terrorist regimes!

Iman — Wed, 19 May 2010 13:53:34 +0000

France freed the murderer of Dr. Shahpour Bakhtiar last Prime Minister of Iran under Shah who was an opponent of the Islamic Republic. Ali Vakili Rad, which in 1991 imprisoned in France, was freed yesterday immediately after the release of a French teacher accused of spying Clotilde Reiss from Evin prison in Iran. Vakili Rad flew to Tehran after release and was amazingly welcomed by Deputy Foreign Minister and a member of the Parliament National Security Commission of IRI as a national hero!

Music worm

Iman — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:14:48 +0000

I just couldn't stop listening to this song and thought of posting it in my blog :)

40 Most Needed Drupal Modules

Iman — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:13:57 +0000

Here are my top 40 Drupal modules that seem to happen more often I am using them in my Drupal projects.

1. addtoany
2. blocks404
3. boost
4. cacherouter
5. canonical_url
6. captcha
7. cck
8. custom_breadcrumbs
9. date
10. diggthis
11. filefield
12. gravatar
13. htmlpurifier
14. image_caption
15. image_fupload
16. imageapi
17. imagecache
18. imagecache_profiles
19. imagefield
20. imagefield_crop
21. imagefield_tokens
22. imce
23. imce_wysiwyg
24. menu_breadcrumb
25. montharchive
26. nodewords
27. page_title
28. pathauto
29. seo_checklist
30. tagadelic
31. taxonomy_breadcrumb
32. taxonomy_manager
33. taxonomy_menu
34. taxonomy_vtn
35. token
36. twitter
37. views
38. workflow
39. wysiwyg
40. xmlsitemap

Neda Agha-Soltan the face of Iran's hero

Iman — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:28:43 +0000

Neda Agha-Soltan has lost her life for freedom of my country Iran and has become a face of resistance and hero of our generation. Neda was a victim’s of brutal regime and an example of the millions of other Iranians who are seeking for basic human right and nothing more.

Bruz ft. Tiatsh & Jaz' - I can't Breathe

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

Iman — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:43:33 +0000

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

Iman — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:29:03 +0000

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.

Charity Hack 2009

Iman — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 21:16:37 +0000

I have been extremely busy lately and I have totally neglected my blog over the last few months and I thought I would make a quick post.

A few weeks ago I participated on Charity Hack 2009 hosted by PayPal and sponsored by JustGiving and MissionFish with the aim to build an app in 24 hours over the weekend and overall after all hacks we won the second prize.

Convert Linux/Unix timestamp to human readable format in PHP

Iman — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:07:32 +0000

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