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PHPUnit XML Schema for use with Netbeans

Here is a XML schema heavily annotated to ease creation of phpunit.xml configuration file for PHPUnit when edited in Netbeans IDE. I have used official one for version 4.1.1 as a starting point. See phpunit.md for usage information.

How to import cookies and bookmarks in Firefox from Opera 15+

In support article Import bookmarks from Google Chrome you can see that it is possible to import cookies and bookmarks from Chrome. Since Opera switched to Webkit from version 15 it turns out they use the same format. To import from Opera to Firefox do the following:

1. Backup your Chrome's cookies and bookmarks, usually located at C:\Users\<your_username>\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\ . There are 4 files: Bookmarks, Bookmarks.bak, Cookies and Cookies-journal.
2. Overwrite the previous  4 files with Opera's ones, usually located at C:\Users\<your_username>\AppData\Roaming\Opera Software\Opera Stable\
3. Follow Mozilla procedure above (select cookies and bookmarks to import)
4. Restore Google's cookies.

Repair Windows Store

If after cleanup you accidentally deleted Windows store files from your profile directory - the store will not work anymore. Here is how I repaired mine:

1. Create a new user
2. Log in as the new user (you will need to wait a little)
3. Go to store
4. Install an app
5. Sign out
6. Log in as your regular user
7. Copy folder starting with WinStore_xxxxxxxx from the new user profile located in C:\Users\<New User>\AppData\Local\Packages to corresponding location in your profile directory.
8. Check if the store is working
9. Reinstall all your store applications
10. Delete the new user (optional)

How to enable APC caching for Doctrine Zend 2 module

  
 array(
        'connection'    => array(
            // connection configuration
        ),
        'configuration' => array(
            'orm_default' => array(
                'generate_proxies' => false,
                'metadata_cache'   => 'apc',
                'query_cache'      => 'apc',
                'result_cache'     => 'apc',
            ),
        ),
    )
);

You can see list of other types of supported caches in the doctrine module source.

How to generate doctrine entities from database

Following command is executed from /home/projects/zend-skeleton/vendor/bin folder:

  
./doctrine-module orm:convert-mapping --from-database annotation --namespace="Application\Entity\\" 
/home/projects/zendskeleton/module/Application/src

Note: In the latest version of doctrine module you can also run it from project root directory like this:

  php public/index.php orm:convert-mapping --from-database annotation --namespace="Application\Entity\\" 
/home/projects/zendskeleton/module/Application/src

Generated entities will be in folder /home/projects/zendskeleton/module/Application/src/Application/Entity/ and will have namespace Application\Entity. If you have enum types in the database you have to add following lines to application configuration:

 'doctrine_type_mappings' => array(
  'enum' => 'string'
 );
  

so it looks like this:

 array(
        'connection' => array(
            'orm_default' => array(
               'driverClass'=>'Doctrine\DBAL\Driver\PDOMySql\Driver',
               'params'      => array(
                   'host'     => 'localhost',
                   'dbname'   => 'xxxx',
                   'user'     => 'xxxx',
                   'password' => 'xxxx'
               ),
               'doctrine_type_mappings' => array(
                   'enum' => 'string'
               )
            ),
        )
    )
);
  

How to setup Phalcon framework under Windows 8 for PHP 5.5 and Netbeans

Compiling PHP extension

1. Download and install Microsoft Visual Studio Express 2012. Microsoft removed it from downloads - for the moment you can find it at Softpedia .
2. Create the folder C:\php-sdk
3. Unpack the binary-tools archive (php-sdk-binary-tools-20110915.zip) into this directory, there should be one sub-directory called bin and one called script
4. Open VS2012 x86 Native Tools Command Prompt (it's available from the start menu group)
5. Execute the following commands:

   cd c:\php-sdk\
   bin\phpsdk_setvars.bat
   bin\phpsdk_buildtree.bat php
   

6. Create C:\php-sdk\php\vc11 directory and copy content from vc9 one
7. Extract PHP source code for Windows (you can download it from http://windows.php.net/downloads/releases/) in C:\php-sdk\php\vc11\x86
8. Download  libraries required to build PHP and extract them in C:\php-sdk\php\vc11\x86\deps
9. Create directory C:\php-sdk\php\vc11\x86\php\ext\phalcon 
10. Download Phalcon source from Github
11. Copy files from Phalcon source build\32bits directory in C:\php-sdk\php\vc11\x86\php\ext\phalcon 
12. Run following commands:

    cd C:\php-sdk\php\vc11\x86\php
    buildconf
    configure --disable-all --enable-cli --enable-phalcon=shared
    nmake
    

13. The php_phalcon.dll after the compilation is located in C:\php-sdk\php\vc11\x86\Release_TS\

Note: Above steps are based on https://wiki.php.net/internals/windows/stepbystepbuild and http://internals.phalconphp.com/en/latest/reference/compilation.html . They are for building 32-bit version of extension . Precompiled version for PHP 5.5.5 is here .

Enable Phalcon extension

In php.ini add following:

extension=php_phalcon.dll

Configure code completion for Netbeans

1. Download Phalcon Developer Tools . How to setup them is described in documentation 
2. In ide directory there is gen-stubs.php script. You have to point 'CPHALCON_DIR' to where your extracted phalcon source is, then run:

   php ide/gen-stubs.php

   This will create ide subdirectory in which you will find directory with your Phalcon version as name. In latter there is Phalcon subdirectory - copy it in your Netbeans php\phpstubs\phpruntime directory. Now you will have code completion for Phalcon.