Saturday, September 29th, 2007
Write programs in PHP is very easy, that is because PHP syntax is simple and very effective. But also in PHP you must have some concepts for write effective programs, because if you are planing to have a very busy web site that little optimizations tips could help you to handle more visitors and to offload a little the processor. (more…)
Friday, September 28th, 2007
Monday, September 24th, 2007
PHP since version 4 comes with a great feature that is with the possibility to register new Stream Wrapper. (see this articles are good, this, an this too).
Usually IO functions (fopen, unlink, mkdir and others) are handle by the Operating System or an Deamon(service) that works with the hardware for do the operation. PHP because is an JIT (just in time compiling, a kind of interpreted language) gives a tool to developers that is create a Class that manage a type of IO operations, for example take a look behind: (more…)
Monday, September 17th, 2007
Today in PHPclasses I saw a new class that is very useful. A Stream wrapper that uses the smbclient to access access Windows shared files.
Very useful when you need to work with Windows and shared resources, because use the native PHP may not work correctly sometimes, not because there is a bug, that is simple a windows bug, for further details about the problem, please read this.
The class description said:
This class is a stream wrapper that can be used to access remote files and directories on Windows or other operating systems that support the SMB protocol.
It uses the smbclient program to access Windows network shares, so it works under Linux, other Unix platforms or even under Windows with the Samba client packages installed.
The class implements functions to create, read and write to files available in the local network shares.
It can also list the local network hosts, available shares in an host, and directories of a share.
Congratulations Victor M Varela, and keep writing good and useful class.
While I was writing this post I saw that this class has a Notable package notification with following comment of the site administrator:
Useful package that can simplify accessing local network files on Windows shares or other operating systems that support the SMB protocol.
Once again congratulations Victor.