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Install xDebug with your MAMP – Mac OS X 10.6

admin — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 17:51:03 +0000

Ok so the very reason why I am writing this post is because I am sure some of you have trouble installing xDebug with MAMP in Mac OS X 10.5 or 10.6. I think the problem is pretty simple, however if you don’t know it, you will scratch your head for hours!
Here it is. The first part of installing xDebug is to get it as an extension for Zend in PHP. So you traditionally would go to the xDebug Wizard and see that it has a nice box where it asks for your phpinfo(); results.

So go ahead and visit the xDebug Wizard first. Then head to your local machine and create a simple php script with the following:

    phpinfo();

2. Ok so now go ahead and save your php script somewhere accessible by your local web server. Now head to your browser and run the script. Select all the output and paste it in the textarea box at the xdebug wizard.

3. Now, xdebug is going to give you tailored instructions on how to proceed from here. HOWEVER, at the end of the instructions you will need to do another step.

4. Head to Komodo IDE’s download page and click on the PHP debugging extension for MAC OS.

5. Once you have the download take the xdebug.so located in the package, and place this into
/Applications/MAMP/Library/share/php/xdebug.so

6. Edit your /Applications/MAMP/conf/php5/php.ini like so:

; xdebug
zend_extension=/Applications/MAMP/Library/share/php/xdebug.so
xdebug.remote_enable=1
xdebug.remote_handler=dbgp
xdebug.remote_mode=req
xdebug.remote_host=127.0.0.1
xdebug.remote_port=9000
xdebug.idekey=

7. Restart your Server and re-run your phpinfo() script.

8. You should now see the extension running properly.

VideoCast: Retrieving IP Addresses with Google Analytics

admin — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:57:45 +0000

In this episode Alex Centeno MBA. from Merkados, shows you how to install the necessary code to retrieve the IP addresses of your visitors using Google Analytics.

This online marketing technique can be modified to be used with other scripting languages other than PHP, however, in this case, the languages used are PHP and Javascript.

Also, you could use this method to generate custom segmentation other than by IP address. For example, you could create the segment by browser, by keyword (the keyword that sent the visitor to your site) or any other collected information: such as email address or name. The possibility are truly endless.

** Remember that this technique populates all profiles in your Google Analytics account and there is no way to remove this information from your account once it is there. So make sure you want it there.

Thanks again,

Alex Centeno

Change a background image in CSS with PHP

admin — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 19:50:54 +0000

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