Monthly Archives: January 2008

P4A 3 commit digest

Hi to all and welcome to the P4A 3 commit digest of this week :-) Let’s start saying that I worked a lot porting to PHP5 all P4A core objects and widgets (the only one left behind is the db_navigator, I’ll work on it soon) so now we finally have a full PHP5 code, I [...]

How to install PHP PDO_OCI on Ubuntu Gutsy

UPDATED guide for >=Jaunty 1) prerequisites First of all we’ll install the php5-dev package which contains some utilities we’ll need for the build process: sudo apt-get install php5-dev then you’ve to find out your ORACLE_HOME environment variable, try executing: env | grep ORACLE_HOME= If this command outputs something like: ORACLE_HOME=/usr/lib/oracle/xe/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/server then you can jump to [...]

P4A 3 commit digest

First technical post on the new blog, as usual 10% of the code take 90% of work, for this commit I spent a lot of time trying to get a final solution for a cross browser message rendering issue (we wanted an icon with a text on the right, both vertically centered). I also unified [...]

New website :-)

My blog finally have a new home :-) I decided to move ’cause I wanted to change the graphic theme and to be able to modify it a bit to fit my few specific needs. I could also install the addthis plugin, at least I won’t have to generate/copy/paste the “digg this” HTML code for [...]

P4A 3 massive commit, cleaning is started

Let’s start highlighting the most important parts of this huge commit: P4A system messages were introduced, now from everywhere in your application you can simply do p4a::singleton()->message(“this is a message”) and your text will be printed to the user with a nice floating panel that will disappear after a few seconds. Now you won’t have [...]

P4A 3 translations opening and waiting for you

Now that the new P4A 3 translation system is finished, I finally took some time to import all P4A 2.2 translations into our new and shining community localization system. You can have a complete look at the translation status, fix possible translation errors for your language as well as adding your language here: https://translations.launchpad.net/p4a/trunk/+pots/p4a Now, [...]