Web Dev

PHP is not usually used to implement network services - and generally for good reasons. Not because it can’t be done, but rather because it’s not what it was meant to be used for. Although, if you think that PHP simply can’t be used for anything other than serving your blog, think again. Because my DHCP implementation in PHP seems to work quite well!

The following eval’ed code was caused a lot of misunderstanding: https://eval.in/61309. The code looks like this:

1$a = "2a0";
2
3for($i = 0; $i < 50; $i++) {
4    print "$a\n";
5    $a++;
6}

I’ve been recently working on a project that uses Node.js with cluster module and socket.io and I noticed that a lot of people that try to use Node.js with socket.io have problems with how to make it work with cluster module.

Recently, I’ve joined a project that required accessing Gmail accounts using oAuth authentication with PHP. It turns out, that’s not such a very simple thing to do, especially with PHP - Zend has a very nice implementation for it, but the wiki page is terribly old and outdated… I’ve lost a few hours looking for a nice and clean solution and found a “handmadeimap” project done by Pete Warder some time ago. Bad thing is, the latest commit was done in 2010. The good thing: not much has changed since then, so the code works perfectly. It’s even better to use that php-imap extension, as you need to use raw IMAP commands, which gives you the chance to use, for example, gmail’s special X-GM-RAW extension to SEARCH command.