Tag Archives: PHP

Can’t connect to remote mysql server with php/apache but can through php/cli

Posted on July 7, 2010 by Matt

Today at work we were migrating some sites to a new server infrastructure with the different services (i.e. php, mysql, mail) spread over different servers. One problem we ran into whilst setting this up was that php scripts running through … Continue reading →

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OSCommerce / Paypoint redirects to payment information after paying

Posted on June 30, 2010 by Matt

I was asked to do some work on an oscommerce site which was accepting payments from paypoint (formally secpay) yet instead of redirecting the user to the “Thank you for your order” page it was sending them to the payment … Continue reading →

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Testing Kohana3 with PHPUnit

Posted on December 2, 2009 by Matt

Unit testing is great, period. It allows you to test different parts of your application independently of the rest of the system.  Any changes that will cause problems elsewhere can be identified almost instantly (if you’re doing it right!). Up … Continue reading →

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Kohana – the php framework

Posted on October 16, 2008 by Matt

I know I haven’t written anything here for quite a while, but I just wanted to make a quick post about this totally amazing awesome MVC php framework called kohana. It was originally a fork of codeigniter (Another good php … Continue reading →

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