Dusty Reagan » PHP http://dustyreagan.com On Technology & Entrepreneurship Thu, 01 Dec 2011 08:00:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 How to reference Smarty variables inside {php} tags http://dustyreagan.com/how-to-reference-smarty-variables-inside-php-tags/ http://dustyreagan.com/how-to-reference-smarty-variables-inside-php-tags/#comments Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:01:15 +0000 Dusty Reagan http://dustyreagan.com/?p=410 Continue reading →]]> I gotta’ be honest, I’ve never used the Smarty Template Engine before in my life. I’m currently working on a project to integrate WordPress and JobberBase so they use the same WordPress theme. JobberBase uses Smarty, so I’m getting a crash course.

You can use PHP in the template (.tpl) files and reference the values of the assigned Smarty template variables like this:

{php}
  $html_title = $this->_tpl_vars['html_title'];
  $echo $html_title;
{/php}

I’m sure Smarty users cringe at this sort of thing, being that it adds business logic to the template files. But, this is just the functionality I need to hack the JobberBase templates without mucking around in core JobberBase code.

I found this solution in the Smarty FAQ after hours of Googling.

]]> http://dustyreagan.com/how-to-reference-smarty-variables-inside-php-tags/feed/ 2 Downgrade PHP 5.3 to 5.2 http://dustyreagan.com/downgrade-php-5-3-to-5-2/ http://dustyreagan.com/downgrade-php-5-3-to-5-2/#comments Wed, 05 May 2010 06:20:52 +0000 Dusty Reagan http://dustyreagan.com/?p=195 Continue reading →]]> Like many others, I recently upgraded my Production server to PHP 5.3. I’m not quite sure of the reason anymore. I think I was trying to integrate a PHP profiler that required something in 5.3. Whatever my original reason, after I got 5.3 installed on my server, it started slowly hemorrhaging memory and occasionally freezing up, always during the middle of the night while I slept of course. So, today I set about downgrading PHP 5.3.2 to PHP 5.2.13. Here is what worked for me.

The Setup

First off, I’m running Ubuntu-Hardy, and both my PHP 5.3 and 5.2 distributions came from dotdeb.org. I have a Production server and a Test server that I try to keep as similar as possible. The first thing I did was make a backup of my Test server with PHP 5.3 installed and my app functional. Then I began hacking away on my Test server trying to successfully downgrade to PHP 5.2. When I screwed the Test server up beyond repair, I restored from backup. Likewise, when I made progress I documented my steps, restored from backup, and tried to repeat my success. I did this several times and eventually made a script that successfully downgraded PHP. I rehearsed this script 3 times on my Test server, backed-up my Production server, then repeated the script on my Production server. IT WORKED!

NOTICE: I probably have a couple of unnecessary steps in here that I didn’t bother to investigate their necessity. You may also need to uninstall and reinstall different PHP modules than I did, depending on the requirements of your applications.

My Final Steps

  1. Remove PHP
    1. sudo apt-get remove php5-common
    2. sudo apt-get remove php5-cli
    3. sudo apt-get remove php5
    4. sudo apt-get autoremove memcached
  2. Update your sources list to point to PHP 5.2
    1. sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list
    2. Remove the references to PHP 5.3 packages. For me that was: 
      deb http://php53.dotdeb.org stable all
deb-src http://php53.dotdeb.org stable all
    3. Add the following 5.2 packages: 
      deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable all
deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib
deb http://packages.dotdeb.org/ stable all
  3. Install PHP 5.2
    1. sudo apt-get update
    2. sudo apt-get install php5-cli
    3. sudo apt-get install php5
  4. Reinstall any PHP modules your application requires. For me that was:
    1. sudo apt-get install memcached
    2. sudo apt-get install php5-memcache
    3. sudo apt-get install php5-curl
    4. sudo apt-get install php5-mysql
  5. sudo reboot

After my production server rebooted, I had to fidget with Apache to get it started again. You may have to:

  • sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
  • sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 stop
  • sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 start

Hope this helps!

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>> sudo apt-get update

>> sudo apt-get upgrade

Then add the following to your /etc/apt/sources.list file.

>> sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable all
deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib
deb http://packages.dotdeb.org/ stable all

Finally run the update to install PHP 5.2.9.

>> sudo apt-get update

>> sudo apt-get install php5-cli

>> sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

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