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Getting Started with ZEND Server 6 on Mac OS X

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I’ve just installed ZEND Server 6.3 on my MacBook running Mavericks 10.9.1. Needless to say I’m sill a little shaken up from the huge amount of brain pain this adventure has caused.

Because once downloaded and installed on your system, you may ask yourself a vital question: Now What?

Let’s find out. This article is Work in Progress – bear with me while I flesh it out.

The Basics

ZEND Server on Mac is located here:

  • /usr/local/zend/

Your web files live here:

  • /usr/local/zend/apache2/htdocs

To open this directory in Finder you can navigate there with a Terminal session and open it, like so:

cd /usr/local/zend/apache2/htdocs
open .

Now you can create a shortcut on your sidebar for easy access.

To access the ZEND Server Admin interface, navigate to the following URL in your browser:

If you’re done with it, you can uninstall ZEND Server with the following command:

sudo /usr/local/zend/bin/uninstall.sh

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How to install ZEND Framework for use with MAMP

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If you have MAMP installed and working on your Mac, it’s easy to get started with ZEND Framework development. I’ll show you how in this article. Download the framework from here: http://framework.zend.com/downloads/latest Choose the full version without ZEND Server (not necessary as we’re using MAMP). Unpack the download and put it somewhere safe. I’m adding … Read more

How to send an email in PHP

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Many complex things are extremely simple in PHP – sending mail is one of them. Here’s how: // components for our email $recepients = ‘you@somewhere.com’; $subject = ‘Hello from PHP’; $message = ‘This is a test mail.’; // let’s send it $success = mail($recepients, $subject, $message); if ($success) { echo ‘Mail added to outbox’; } … Read more

How to test if a Shell Command can be executed in PHP

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Before we execute a shell command from PHP it’s a good idea to test if the server will respond to it. We can do this by making use of the empty() function. The following example consists of a helper function you can call before executing the command in question. Then we call it with the … Read more

How to read the contents of a file into a string in PHP

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file_get_contents() can help us here. It reads a file and stores it in a string. Can be used with local files, as well as online content: $myLocalFile = file_get_contents(‘myfile.html’); $myOnlineFile = file_get_contents(‘http://wpguru.co.uk’); echo myOnline File; // would display the actual website This is different from the file() function which reads the contents of a file … Read more

How to replace text inside a string in PHP

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If we have a string and would like to replace a portion of it, we can use the str_replace() function in PHP. It works like this: str_replace (‘whatToReplace’, ‘theReplacement’, ‘originalText’); It’s easy to remember… but I always get confused when I look this up in the manual. Here’s an example: $originalText = “Now is the … Read more

How to convert a timestamp into a readable date in PHP

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A UNIX timestamp is something like a 10 digit (or less) integer number which represents the elapsed seconds since the 1st of January 1970 (also known as the Unix Epoch). It’s a very accurate representation of time, but not necessarily something us humans easily understand. A Unix Timestamp looks something like 1367805780. We can use … Read more