Category: PHP

How to install Zend Guard Loader for PHP on a VPS

In order to install Zend Guard Loader, we need to download the extension from the Zend Downloads Page. It will download a tarball file, that we will have to uncompress. $ tar -xzf ZendGuardLoader-php-5.3-linux-glibc23-x86_64.tar.gz Once we have uncompressed the file, we will proceed with the installation. The extension is already compiled, so we just need to [...]

January 09 / 2013
Author ismael
Category PHP, Tutorials, VPS
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PHP 5.3.20 and 5.4.10 released and available on ServerGrove!

Yesterday the PHP development team released new versions of PHP 5.3.20 and 5.4.10. These releases fix over 15 bugs. We have updated our OS packages with these new versions. Here are instructions on how to use (or upgrade) our Ubuntu/Debian or CentOS PHP packages. Other Extensions News – Mongo: We updated the Mongo PHP extension with the new version 1.3.2. – Twig: We have [...]

December 21 / 2012
Author Pablo
Category PHP
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PHP 5.3.19 and 5.4.9 released and available on ServerGrove!

Last week the PHP development team released new versions of PHP 5.3.19 and 5.4.9. These releases fix over 15 bugs. We have updated our OS packages with these new versions. Here are instructions on how to use (or upgrade) our Ubuntu/Debian or CentOS PHP packages. Mongo Extension Update We have also updated the Mongo PHP extension with the new version 1.3.0 [...]

November 27 / 2012
Author Pablo
Category MongoDB, PHP
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Sunshine Baby! The Florida PHP conference is finally happening

Online, we like to think of ourselves as a global company, but in RL our corporate headquarters are based out of Miami, FL. We’ll admit it, one of our favorite pass times in winter is turning on CNN and watching northerners swerve on roads in blizzards. Joking aside, we have often spoken about how great [...]

November 12 / 2012
Author Kim
Category Conferences, PHP
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Getting Composer to work with MAMP

I was trying to update a project using Composer when I got the following error: Composer needs the PHP setting detect_unicode to be disabled. If it is enabled, composer will fail with a message like this: The solution is simple. You have to add the following to the end of your php.ini: detect_unicode = Off [...]

November 06 / 2012
Author Kim
Category PHP
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