Ever wondered what your site looked like to Googles crawler? Thanks to a brand new tool from Google, you can now see exactly how your site appears to Googles GoogleBot. 1 – Log-in to your Google account and go to your Webmaster Tools area. 2 – One you are there, you will see a list of your site; just click the link to one of them. 3 – On the left hand side, you will now see the ‘Labs’ link. Click on that and use the ‘Fetch as Googlebot’ link. A ‘Pending’ notice will appear on the right and shortly afterwards, is replaced by a ‘Success’ link which you can now click to see exactly how your page looks to Googles bot.
October 27th, 2009 | Posted in Pear, Uncategorized, tools | No Comments
Last night I installed a Pear channel on my Aspire One so thought about sharing the installation process with you. You might have a look at Greg Beaver’s howto , three years old but it’s the official installation, add it to your bookmarks anyway. First if you don’t have a LAMP already run sudo tasksel install lamp-server Then follow the installation process, which documented here . Then we need to install PEAR iself : sudo apt-get install php-pear You can make sure that pear is correctly installed by running: pear -V I recommend you to use ubuntu pear package instead of downloading go-pear.phar and install it manually.
July 13th, 2009 | Posted in Community, Pear, Tutorial, Uncategorized, php | No Comments
To celebrate their five years birthday, Packt Publishing offered five books FREE for download. Books include Building Online Communities with phpBB 2 , Invision Power Board: A User Guide , Building Websites with e107 , and The PEAR Installer Manifesto . Since there is not much books about PEAR, here is one of the few ones available for download free : the PEAR installer manifesto, written by Gregory Beaver, 296 pages and published by Packt on October 30, 2006. The book covers the PEAR Installer version 1.4.0 onwards. Current PEAR stable version is 1.8.1.
July 4th, 2009 | Posted in Books, Pear, Software, Uncategorized, php | No Comments
Two great news for the PEAR community, now the PEAR project got an official blog available at blog.pear.php.net . The blog will be used for announcements, sharing ideas with the community, and general information about the PEAR project. The second good news is that PEAR Installer 1.6.0 have been released with some bugfixes and improvements including : minor improvements to the output of list-all, list, list-upgrades, search. Channel is displayed for many of these commands by default, and with an optional switch for the others implementation of code coverage reports using xdebug for .phpt-based tests with the pear run-tests command
June 9th, 2007 | Posted in Announcements, Community, General, Implementation, News, Pear, Reports, Uncategorized, php | No Comments
I upgraded last week to Cpanel 11 which will be available as stable by June 13, and one of the new features that I just noticed is the integration of the PEAR installer. After login to Cpanel11, under the software box choose “PHP PEAR Package” and it will lead you to the PHP PEAR installer. The installer will first check the config automatically and update PEAR channel, then you will get the installer interface as you see it in the screenshot below : The news with Cpanel11 is that system packages are separated from user packages which will be installed under /home/username/php, this will give users more freedom to search for the package that they are looking for and install it directly from the official PEAR repository, without having to ask the hosting provider to support a package or another. You can find over the hosting magazine 10 steps to upgrade to Cpanel 11 if you can’t wait for the stable release.
May 16th, 2007 | Posted in News, Pear, Software, Uncategorized, php | No Comments
The PEAR election is over, PEAR Group team, which will be the governing body of the project, now officially include 8 members : Martin Jansen, Arnaud Limbourg, Joshua Eichorn, Christian Weiske, Helgi Thormar, Paul M. Jones, Justin Patrin, and David Coallier. The elected group will be able to decide about the future of the project according to the new constitution . Notice that this is more about the organisations of the group, and who is able to take major decisions, but will not affect a lot the PEAR project as coding or as project itself
May 4th, 2007 | Posted in Pear, Uncategorized, enterprise, php | No Comments
On the PEAR dev mailing list, Gregory Beaver announced the beginning of the PEAR election from April 20th, until April 30rd 2007. Eligible Voters are PEAR Developers with CVS karma grant. Greg is the only one running for the PEAR president position and 7 candidates will be selected for the PEAR Group. The group elected will have to decide about the future of PEAR from May 1st, 2007 to 2008. This election is the big one: the PEAR Group will make decisions that affect every single developer, including defining what a collective is, which packages belong to which collectives, assigning CVS karma for developers, and other vitally important tasks. The candidates, listed at PEAR Election page are : David Coallier Bertrand Mansion Christian Weiske Helgi Pormar Arnaud Limbourg Martin Jansen Paul M. Jones Joe Stump Joshua Eichorn Brett Bieber Stefan Neufeind
April 20th, 2007 | Posted in General, News, Uncategorized, php | No Comments
There are some news this week around PEAR, David Coallier pointed over his blog to new features on PEAR website powered by jQuery JavaSCript library : http://pear.php.net is now using jQuery for some sections of the administration area in order to view user notes/comments and that I will be starting implementing more sections over the site within the next few weeks (Of course this will all be done once we have split the code completely into templates, views, controllers, MDB2 move, etc) Joshua Eichorn , author of HTML_AJAX, announced a new mirror of the PEAR channel mainly for installer data at the moment, but there will be more in the future. You can switch to the new mirror and test it by running : pear config-set preferred_mirror us.pear.php.net
March 29th, 2007 | Posted in News, Pear, Uncategorized, javascript, jquery, php | No Comments
Greg called for an official referendum on the future of PEAR, you can elect how pear should be run . You, mean anyone who is able to login to the pear.php.net website and and must have “pear.dev” karma. I think this is very important for the future of PEAR, and could change the way how the project work in the future and certainly for the benefit of everyone. There is three resolutions, to keep the PEAR group as is, or choose between Greg Beaver’s constitution and Anant Narayanan’s constitution. This will change the way how decisions are made, decisions such : How should PEAR handle coding standards for PHP 5, PHP 6 and beyond? Who handles acceptance of new packages? What defines quality, and who enforces QA in PEAR
February 24th, 2007 | Posted in Pear, Uncategorized, php, solutions | No Comments
I used in my code a modified version of Admob code that you can find the original on admob website. The idea that I never use print inside my applications, so i wrote it as a PHP class, the original code is a little bit modified. To use it simply replace $admobs variable with your own and enjoy! /** * Mobile Advertising PHP class * */ class mobileads { var $admobs = ‘a1458adcf8cca66′; /** * Return Admob code – Original code from admob.com * * @param mob_mode change mode from “test” to “live” when you are done testing * @param mob_alternate_link use this to set a default link to appear if AdMob does not return an ad.
February 10th, 2007 | Posted in Advertising, Mobile Advertising, Pear, Uncategorized, php | No Comments