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I am about to embark on a 5 month full time PHP MySQl course in Mid November and hopefully that will give me plenty of experience to get going in this area. What I would like to know is this: "Is there a social group of PHP users that might meet up in Dublin to discuss the PHP and MySQL language". It would be very benefitical to the likes of myself to learn and discuss the PHP MySQL Language. If anybody has any helpful suggestions please reply. Thanks for your time. Vincent. slaine_23 on "PHP developers, Ireland" http://forum.php.ie/bbpress/topic.php?id=514#post-703 Mon, 13 Jun 2011 15:20:46 +0000 slaine_23 703@http://forum.php.ie/bbpress/ We're looking for good PHP people for app development, interesting job, good company. More details available here - <a href="http://www.sita.aero/content/senior-developer-php" rel="nofollow">http://www.sita.aero/content/senior-developer-php</a> . We're looking for juniors and seniors (despite what the link says) Rmurphy on "PHP Development opportunities across all levels in Dublin" http://forum.php.ie/bbpress/topic.php?id=506#post-694 Tue, 24 May 2011 10:44:46 +0000 Rmurphy 694@http://forum.php.ie/bbpress/ Excellent opportunities for talented PHP Developers across all levels, to be based in Dublin. Please don't hesitate to get in contact, call Rebekah on; 00353 1 8724668, or send CVs to <a href="mailto:rmurphy@berkley.ie">rmurphy@berkley.ie</a> kae on "New to PHP, what, how ,why!!" http://forum.php.ie/bbpress/topic.php?id=475#post-663 Sat, 16 Apr 2011 21:08:58 +0000 kae 663@http://forum.php.ie/bbpress/ you need a server-side language, a database, and the client-side languages. on the client-side, there is basically just HTML, CSS and JavaScript. you have no alternatives - you must learn those. (no, Flash and Java are not alternatives) on the server-side, you have more options. personally, I prefer PHP and MySQL. if you don't know why you would want to learn these, then you don't need to know them - you're obviously not yet the kind of person that needs to know these things. but, if you want to be a good web programmer, you will need to choose at least one server-side language to learn. steve_ on "New to PHP, what, how ,why!!" http://forum.php.ie/bbpress/topic.php?id=475#post-656 Tue, 29 Mar 2011 01:24:46 +0000 steve_ 656@http://forum.php.ie/bbpress/ Hi guys iv only recently started to look at PHP, mainly out of curiosity. I done a basic web design course in college but dropped out as it was full of allot of fluff and unrelated topics. I had a strong attraction towards HTML and CSS and want to delve further into web development in my own time. After browsing the web and doing some digging, many many people kept stating that PHP is essential for a decent website. Now while iv searched the php.net site and tried to understand what it does i just cant seem to work it out. After working with HTML and CSS my skills are pretty much capped at being able to create pages and style the content appropriately. What exactly can PHP do for me and my learning? What are the possibilities and why is it so essential to learn? Im struggling to work out how it fits in and what exactly it does. What else needs to go along with PHP? Iv read online and it seems the suggestions are relevant to the person. Some say i need to learn JAVA other say AJAX. Just when i thought i could be happy and learn PHP it seems iv to learn many other things too which is very daunting. Is XHTML/CSS and PHP enough to make decent websites or do i need to learn more, or is it a simple case of "it depends on the site" ? With so many people offering different suggestions, im quickly getting deterred about even getting involved!! Any help would be much obliged and appreciated. mmoynihan on "LAMP/PHP Developer - Permanent Role - Cork City Centre" http://forum.php.ie/bbpress/topic.php?id=410#post-587 Tue, 25 Jan 2011 16:15:05 +0000 mmoynihan 587@http://forum.php.ie/bbpress/ Exiting opportunity for PHP/LAMP Developer in Cork City Reporting to the Lead Developer the ideal candidate will be ambitious and quick thinking. You will work in a fast paced and exciting environment building and launching a number of new products, as well as bringing the current ones fully up-to-date by integrating the latest technologies and techniques. Role/Opportunity: Build new, and improve existing, products and application modules Full life cycle development Utilize AJAX, Javascript and XML Skills / Experience: 3+ years PHP/MYSQL Development Good experience with AJAX, Javascript and XML on Linux or Windows Experience with CSS Strong problem solving and analytical skills Excellent written and verbal communication skills Ability to work both independently and participate within a team environment Degree in Computer Science / Engineering / other Science, or equivalent This role offers a fantastic opportunity to a PHP/LAMP developer looking to further develop their technology skills utilizing latest technologies. Berkley IT is a specialist consultancy recruiting IT professionals for organizations throughout Ireland; for more information go to <a href="http://www.berkley.ie" rel="nofollow">http://www.berkley.ie</a>. If you would like to discuss this vacancy further or to discuss your career options in confidence, please telephone Maude Moynihan on +353 (0)21 42 89 608 or send your CV to <a href="mailto:jobs@berkley.ie">jobs@berkley.ie</a> paddyoconnell on "Contract PHP / LAMP Developer - 12 month contract in Cork" http://forum.php.ie/bbpress/topic.php?id=408#post-582 Wed, 22 Dec 2010 15:40:16 +0000 paddyoconnell 582@http://forum.php.ie/bbpress/ I have a requirement for a Contract PHP / LAMP developer with a Cork based software development consultancy Job spec is as follows: The successful candidates will have strong web design & development experience with demonstrable experience in developing eCommerce driven sites with excellent knowledge of eCommerce & web development principles, SEO, security, payments, fulfillment etc. Skills / Experience: 4+ years commercial web development experience LAMP skills essential (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP 4.X, PHP 5.X) Must be strong on hand coding HTML, DHTML and CSS Experience of Source Control (SVN) Experience with PHP driven eCommerce software such as xCart desirable Experience with Template Engines such as XSLT, Smarty and PHP desirable XML, Ajax, JSON experience desirable If you would like to discuss this position further please call me on +353 (0)21 42 89 606 or send your CV to <a href="mailto:jobs@berkley.ie">jobs@berkley.ie</a> r on "Beta testers for Mac OSX Eclipse Plugin" http://forum.php.ie/bbpress/topic.php?id=402#post-581 Wed, 22 Dec 2010 14:00:39 +0000 r 581@http://forum.php.ie/bbpress/ David, tried to email you but got reply: <appkit@ondevice.ie>: host ondevice.ie[81.17.241.211] said: 550 5.1.1 User unknown: <a href="mailto:appkit@ondevice.ie">appkit@ondevice.ie</a> (in reply to RCPT TO command) r on "ticket manager projects" http://forum.php.ie/bbpress/topic.php?id=10#post-580 Wed, 22 Dec 2010 13:49:32 +0000 r 580@http://forum.php.ie/bbpress/ Hi Kae. I have been working on something very lightweight, it's too early to start using, however would you be interested to join the development effort? Even if you join as advisor / tester - that would be great. r on "what OS projects are you working on?" http://forum.php.ie/bbpress/topic.php?id=3#post-579 Wed, 22 Dec 2010 13:47:46 +0000 r 579@http://forum.php.ie/bbpress/ Agile Toolkit, <a href="http://github.com/atk4/atk4" rel="nofollow">http://github.com/atk4/atk4</a> (main page coming soon) and will be releasing a couple of other opensource PHP projects: - CRM - Project management All would be lightweight and the goal is maximum customization and ability to build on top of the opensource projects. Would someone like to join? CiaranC on "PHP Developers required - Belfast and Derry" http://forum.php.ie/bbpress/topic.php?id=406#post-577 Fri, 09 Apr 2010 11:31:15 +0000 CiaranC 577@http://forum.php.ie/bbpress/ Hi All, I'm looking for a number of PHP Web developers at all levels from around 6 months experience and up. We have opportunities in Derry and Belfast. These are first class opportunities, working in highly technical development teams. We'd be interesting in hearing form you if you have any of the following # Knowledge of PHP # Experience working with LAMP systems. # Front-end development skills AJAX, XML, DHTML,CSS and Javascript. # Knowledge of any CMS products # Knowledge of application frameworks Contact me on +4428 9031 2009 for a confidential discussion Ciaran Conroy IT Recruitment Consultant <a href="mailto:ciaran.conroy@wellington-rec.com">ciaran.conroy@wellington-rec.com</a> Wellington Professional Recruitment Belfast Tel: +44 (0)28 9031 2009 (Belfast) Tel: +44 (0)7717 796 341 Mary on "Career opportunity in Donegal" http://forum.php.ie/bbpress/topic.php?id=405#post-576 Thu, 08 Apr 2010 13:58:09 +0000 Mary 576@http://forum.php.ie/bbpress/ If anyone would be interested in a PHP Developer role in Donegal please let me know. It's a great opportunity however, it will involve relocating to Donegal. Attractive salary + benefits and a lower cost of living. If interested please let me know <a href="mailto:mary.ogara@e-frontiers.ie">mary.ogara@e-frontiers.ie</a> jay on "nuSOAP" http://forum.php.ie/bbpress/topic.php?id=403#post-574 Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:47:09 +0000 jay 574@http://forum.php.ie/bbpress/ Hi all, Just wondering has anybody had any experience (good or bad) with nuSOAP and php4? Thanks, j vediovis on "Joomla" http://forum.php.ie/bbpress/topic.php?id=4#post-571 Thu, 28 Jan 2010 03:55:16 +0000 vediovis 571@http://forum.php.ie/bbpress/ Unfortunately for me I have to develop a lot on it. Plug In, Modules, and most of all a big compnent. Documentation is uncomplete, local conventions are sometimes very restrictive (I have a lot of templates named only "default.php"). Anyway it's real MVC inside. But you have to follow their way of doing all the time and it makes developments to be slow. Cheers Stef vediovis on "what OS projects are you working on?" http://forum.php.ie/bbpress/topic.php?id=3#post-570 Thu, 28 Jan 2010 03:50:13 +0000 vediovis 570@http://forum.php.ie/bbpress/ A payslip manager, multi language, multi country. You can admin taxes and charges by country, confirm them by company, indicate timesheet per employee, and generate the payslip. Intersting stuff, with stored procedures , LaTeX and a HUGE database. I can generate French payslips with the French tax system which is one of the most complicated system of the world, so I think I can do it for every country. I need to have time to finish it but I generate the payslips at this stage (pdf). I need to finish it and to implement the restrictions allowing me to sell the generated payslips (account managers, billing part, etc...). I'm not sure I will put open source anyway. There are YEARS of work on it and I need to think of my future and to make some money for my old times. Anyway, to answer my question, this is the big project I work on during my free times, week ends and blank days <img src="./images/smilies/icon_e_smile.gif" alt=":)" title="Smile" /> Cheers S.L. davidfoley on "Beta testers for Mac OSX Eclipse Plugin" http://forum.php.ie/bbpress/topic.php?id=402#post-495 Wed, 23 Dec 2009 21:42:50 +0000 davidfoley 495@http://forum.php.ie/bbpress/ Thanks for the suggestion Kae- I certainly will <img src="./images/smilies/icon_e_smile.gif" alt=":)" title="Smile" /> kae on "Beta testers for Mac OSX Eclipse Plugin" http://forum.php.ie/bbpress/topic.php?id=402#post-492 Sat, 19 Dec 2009 22:39:17 +0000 kae 492@http://forum.php.ie/bbpress/ sounds interesting. unfortunately, I don't use Mac /or/ eclipse (vim on Linux is my dev environment), but there may be a few people on the mailing list that would be interested: <a href="http://php.ie/About-Us/Mailinglist" rel="nofollow">http://php.ie/About-Us/Mailinglist</a> for instructions on how to join. If you email that, please ask for people to reply /here/, so the replies are archived. davidfoley on "what OS projects are you working on?" http://forum.php.ie/bbpress/topic.php?id=3#post-488 Fri, 18 Dec 2009 13:05:43 +0000 davidfoley 488@http://forum.php.ie/bbpress/ AppKit- a micro architecture for PHP 5.3 comprised of a library and an Eclipse plugin- Jex- an application architecture for JavaScript geared towards business logic tiers (it uses other libraries for x-platform display programming) JexCompiler- a JavaScript compositor that uses a package-like meta syntax that can be written around standard object definitions in JavaScript files UnitKit- a library independent unit testing framework for use in the browser All are near a level of stability suitable for beta, and I'm hoping to draw them all together under the umbrella of AppKit. Beta releases are pending on further development of the IDE tooling. davidfoley on "Beta testers for Mac OSX Eclipse Plugin" http://forum.php.ie/bbpress/topic.php?id=402#post-487 Fri, 18 Dec 2009 12:52:43 +0000 davidfoley 487@http://forum.php.ie/bbpress/ Would anyone be interested in helping me beta test a PHP/Apache auto-configuration plugin for Eclipse Mac OSX? The plugin will be part of AppKit, a yet to be published open source project currently in development. The plugin does a very simple job- you create a PHP project (with PDT I assume!), right click on it, select AppKit -> Convert To AppKit Project and the tool - creates a secure 'best-practice' directory structure for you in the project, - generates a virtual host configuration with the name of the project as the virtual host name, - creates symlinks to your project files to make your virtual host available and enabled on localhost for development and testing. All you have to do is manually add the virtual host name to your systems hosts file after you run it (something that I would also like to eventually automate, once the security constraints have been worked out). I eventually hope for the AppKit plugin to support Win and Linux, so do feel free to contact me if you are also familiar with Apache/PHP stacks and development on those OS's. Please email <a href="mailto:appkit@ondevice.ie">appkit@ondevice.ie</a> with your details if you're interested or would like any more information. Looking forward to hearing from you! David Foley | Senior Architect OnDevice.ie conor on "Unzipping in PHP" http://forum.php.ie/bbpress/topic.php?id=321#post-395 Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:09:30 +0000 conor 395@http://forum.php.ie/bbpress/ yes I have but it seems not to be installed by default with PHP. When I ran it on my local machine it could not find the function... kae on "Unzipping in PHP" http://forum.php.ie/bbpress/topic.php?id=321#post-394 Mon, 19 Oct 2009 06:40:31 +0000 kae 394@http://forum.php.ie/bbpress/ have you tried using PHP's zip_open ? <a href="http://ie2.php.net/manual/en/function.zip-open.php" rel="nofollow">http://ie2.php.net/manual/en/function.zip-open.php</a> conor on "Unzipping in PHP" http://forum.php.ie/bbpress/topic.php?id=321#post-393 Sun, 18 Oct 2009 13:02:46 +0000 conor 393@http://forum.php.ie/bbpress/ Hi, My host does not allow me to use the shell_exec() function, which is understandable enough! So I have been trying to figure out a way of unzipping large files in PHP. I have tried using unzip.lib.php <a href="http://www.koders.com/php/fidC24DE94469E1C2E7FEA00F3AD26688559729E7A4.aspx?s=excel" rel="nofollow">http://www.koders.com/php/fidC24DE94469E1C2E7FEA00F3AD26688559729E7A4.aspx?s=excel</a> but it has a limit of 8 meg to the zip size. I added this to replace lines 246 and 247: <dl class="codebox"><dt>Code: <a href="#" onclick="selectCode(this); return false;">Select all</a></dt><dd><code>                $bytes_to_read=$this->Size;                 $byte_size_packages=$bytes_to_read/8000;                 $bytes_read=0;                 $oF=fopen($in_FileName,'rb');                 $vZ=0;                 while($bytes_read<$bytes_to_read){                         $vZ_part=@fread($oF,$byte_size_packages);                         if(strlen($vZ_part)==0)                                 break;                         $vZ.=$vZ_part;                         $bytes_read+=$byte_size_packages;                 } </code></dd></dl> I had to do that because the old fread() function was exhausting it's 8meg limit. But still I get this error: <dl class="codebox"><dt>Code: <a href="#" onclick="selectCode(this); return false;">Select all</a></dt><dd><code>Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 134217728 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 133188854 bytes) in unzip.lib.php on line 258</code></dd></dl> Is there anyway of actually unzipping say a 60meg file in PHP without having a memory problem? kae on "Determine MP3 Track Length" http://forum.php.ie/bbpress/topic.php?id=162#post-229 Tue, 21 Jul 2009 09:21:51 +0000 kae 229@http://forum.php.ie/bbpress/ MP3 is a patented encoding system, so most default Linux installations don't have a codec that can read it, so yes, you will need to install something to do it. having sid that, the installed file doesn't need to be an RPM or PHP extension: <a class="postlink" href="http://getid3.org/">http://getid3.org/</a> Here's the file that tackles MP3s: <a class="postlink" href="http://getid3.org/source/module.audio.mp3.phps">http://getid3.org/source/module.audio.mp3.phps</a> conor on "Determine MP3 Track Length" http://forum.php.ie/bbpress/topic.php?id=162#post-228 Mon, 20 Jul 2009 11:54:41 +0000 conor 228@http://forum.php.ie/bbpress/ Hi, Is it possible to determine the track length of an mp3 file without installing additional plugins to PHP? I could just ask the user to input the length but I am trying to save time here! <img src="./images/smilies/icon_e_smile.gif" alt=":-)" title="Smile" /> Thanks plug on "PHP newbie - how to start" http://forum.php.ie/bbpress/topic.php?id=91#post-171 Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:53:30 +0000 plug 171@http://forum.php.ie/bbpress/ no problem mark. if you have any more questions about anything just fire 'em up here. best o' luck! macoy on "PHP newbie - how to start" http://forum.php.ie/bbpress/topic.php?id=91#post-170 Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:44:21 +0000 macoy 170@http://forum.php.ie/bbpress/ Hi guys, Many many thanks for the advice given. I will now download some tutorial about CSS and Html. i REALLY appreciate your time and effort in dropping some lines for me to start of. Sorry for the late reply. i have been on a holiday for the previous days. way to go php:-) Kindest Regards, Mark plug on "PHP newbie - how to start" http://forum.php.ie/bbpress/topic.php?id=91#post-158 Sat, 27 Jun 2009 14:57:07 +0000 plug 158@http://forum.php.ie/bbpress/ yeah I'd never heard of it either. not surprisingly, considering it costs money and there are loads of IDEs out there that are free! macoy, full on IDEs (integrated development environments) like mpsoftware can be very useful but kae is dead right, you don't need them.. in fact, until you get to a point where you're getting productive with the language (which might be a while) and actually woking on projects you'd probably best avoid them. a lot of IDEs have their own learning curve. add that to the learning curve you already have learning a whole new language and you'll have a lot on your plate! if you want to follow all the introductory tutorials you read, a simple text editor should suffice really; if you're using a PC (which you are because you said you installed WAMP right?) then crimson editor (<a href="http://www.crimsoneditor.com/" class="postlink">http://www.crimsoneditor.com/</a>) or notepad++ (<a href="http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm" class="postlink">http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm</a>) are a bit of a step up from notepad if you want a general purpose code editor with syntax highlighting and other useful stuff that'll make your life a little easier <img src="./images/smilies/icon_e_smile.gif" alt=":)" title="Smile" /> also they're both free. down the road if you're looking for a more functional IDE for projects and the like there are loads of free/open source ones out there. eclipse is a good choice. finally, another intro tutorial: <a class="postlink" href="http://www.tizag.com/phpT/">http://www.tizag.com/phpT/</a> when the time is right you can start reading up on mysql and databases there too. have fun! kae on "PHP newbie - how to start" http://forum.php.ie/bbpress/topic.php?id=91#post-157 Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:29:14 +0000 kae 157@http://forum.php.ie/bbpress/ I agree with plug. start with HTML&CSS and work from there. You should not need to buy /anything/ to start working with PHP. never heard of "mpsoftware". if you're in Windows, all you need is a bundled Apache&PHP installation, and a copy of notepad. In Linux, it's all usually installed by default - Apache + PHP + vim plug on "Welcome to phpBB3" http://forum.php.ie/bbpress/topic.php?id=1#post-156 Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:37:59 +0000 plug 156@http://forum.php.ie/bbpress/ hi all. greetings from cork. I just joined so thought I'd say hello <img src="./images/smilies/icon_e_smile.gif" alt=":)" title="Smile" /> plug on "PHP newbie - how to start" http://forum.php.ie/bbpress/topic.php?id=91#post-155 Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:34:27 +0000 plug 155@http://forum.php.ie/bbpress/ hi there I'm assuming that if you want to build a website you have some experience with HTML/CSS. if you don't you should look into learning these first because otherwise PHP won't be much good to you, at least for building websites. if you do have web authoring experience, then you've made a good start downloading and installing an IDE and an environment where you can start working with PHP. there are oodles of sites out there where you can start learning about scripting and programming. alternatively, you could pick up a beginner PHP book in your local library or bookshop. either way, PHP is a very popular language so you'll have no problem tracking down something useful. the first step to take with any computer language is to know what it is and what it can do. there is a brief introduction on php.net here: <a href="http://us3.php.net/manual/en/getting-started.php" class="postlink">http://us3.php.net/manual/en/getting-started.php</a>. then you can start to get to grips with the nuts and bolts of the language; the basics in other words. for a quick synopsis, the php.net language reference (<a href="http://ie.php.net/manual/en/langref.php" class="postlink">http://ie.php.net/manual/en/langref.php</a>) is probably as good a place to start as any here. you'll learn about the basic syntax of the language, values/types, variables, control structures etc. etc. as this is a fairly comprehensive summary of the language, you might find there are a lot of things you won't understand, but I'd say certainly read about: <ul>the basic syntax of PHP</ul><ul>values and some of the "primitive" value types (boolean, integers, floats, strings)</ul><ul>variables (which are containers for values)</ul><ul>operators (addition, subtraction, multiplication, concatenation and more)</ul><ul>control structures (loops and conditional statements)</ul> from a beginner's point-of-view the language reference might be a little technical, so it is good to read around. the w3c do quick and easy tutorials on many subjects, including PHP, which can be found here: <a href="http://www.w3schools.com/php/php_syntax.asp" class="postlink">http://www.w3schools.com/php/php_syntax.asp</a>. don't stop there though... look everywhere. if there's something that you can't understand, google it. and as you learn more, when you get into PHP's extensive library of built in functions, remember that php.net's function reference is your friend <img src="./images/smilies/icon_e_smile.gif" alt=":)" title="Smile" /> and ask LOTS of questions. I'm sure there are people around here who will be more than happy to help. I wouldn't worry if there are things that you don't understand at first; there's a hell of a lot to learn and it can take a while to get into the programming mindset. the key is to start slowly, and practice what you do understand; it's a language so you need to build up your vocabulary. this takes time but I personally think it can be a very rewarding experience more than a challenge or a chore. Once you start to learn more and more, you'll find that you'll have many "eureka" moments and new things will make sense. I can remember when arrays used to baffle me senseless! the basic rule is practice, practice, practice. this infers lots of time and dedication. I think you need to have a certain passion for programming to make the commitment, but you'll know quickly enough whether it's for you and if you do enjoy it you're sure to find it a very rewarding experience... D