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Archive for July, 2004

More PHP woes

Tried the latest CVS version (php5-200407261630). And applied the session patch which wasn't included yet. It seemed like it was running okay for about 15 seconds. Then I kept getting more segfaults. It's back to the old refcount issue. Having all the bugs at once makes it hard to isolate which patch fixes what, if […]

PHP session bug identified

It's reported. Has nothing to do with the database, or our templating system. Plain old session_start(); just breaks Apache. Amazing that this one has slipped by.

PHP5 bug confirmed

Found someone else who is experiencing the same bug we are — well, one of them, anyway. It's reported on the PHP bug tracker. Hopefully that'll help.

PHP5 headaches

At Lucidix we decided to test run our workflow software on PHP5 and, if all goes well, to forget about backward capability with PHP4. There's one really good reason for it; Exception handling.
We've tested the web app on Win XP, Apache 2.0.50, MySQL 4.0.20 and PHP5.0.0. Everything ran great. I started implementing exceptions and all […]

Modified DBDesigner

Earlier today I modified DBDesigner to, above all, not delete columns automatically after renaming the destination column in a relationship. It also displays "AI" for auto_increment columns, so I don't have to guess anymore whether I forgot to check that AI column without opening up the edit box for every single table, as there are […]