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I had a problem upgrading to phpStorm 3.0. Needed to kill the project data, for phpStorm to reset.

$> rm -rf .idea

to clear the project data.

I have a requirement to not serve SVN meta data with the project, once deployed on a server.

So what can I do?
Prevent Apache from serving the content:

Put an apache directive:

<DirectoryMatch .*\.svn/.*>
Deny From All
</DirectoryMatch>

or:

Remove all the SVN metadata altogether

While in the *nix prompt:

find . -name ".svn" -type d -exec rm -rf {} \;

Took me a while to find out how to do this… as there was no good examples on the web.
So, here it is… so I can find it again.

keywords:
db database transaction rollback commit magento zend.

try {
    $write = Mage::getSingleton('core/resource')->getConnection('core_write');
    $write->beginTransaction();

// do stuff here

    $write->commit();
} catch (Exception $e) {
    mage::log(__METHOD__ . ':' . __LINE__ . ': Rollback happened.');
    $write->rollback();
}

Please drop a line if you found this useful. Thanks!

ls -tr | tail -n 1

I always forget these commands… so I’m posting it here, so I can find them again easily.

Getting a value out of a loaded yaml config file.

[project root]/app/frontend/config/app.yml

all:
.general:
api_key: ASDFASDFASDFASDF


sfConfig::get(‘app_api_key’);
will return “ASDFASDFASDFASDF”;

I’m assuming you have a fresh install of centos 5.5.


$> yum groupinstall "Development Tools"

and there you go… php 5.3.3 on the box…

http://www.lloydleung.com/2009/06/17/find-svn-directories-and-remove-them/

Useful linux command to remove svn data, when you need to clean it up for some reason.

Note: Use sparingly.

SV…. thanks…

If you’re about to do the following, notify others.  Or people start yelling at you.

1. Drop tables/columns/data
2. Restart the database / HTTPD / other services

Or… alternatively, make your own sandbox, and you can play all you want…

<?php
echo date('Y-m-d H:m:s', 1229367412.43);
// gives 2008-12-15 13:12:52

echo date('Y-m-d H:m:s', 1229367412);
// givse 2008-12-15 13:12:52

mysql
select from_unixtime(1229367412.43);
// gives 2008-12-15 13:09:22

select from_unixtime(1229367412);
// gives 2008-12-15 13:09:21

The problem is your date function is calling for H:m:s -> Hour:Month:Seconds. Next time try H:i:s -> Hour:Mintues:Seconds.

You are dumb!

“XSLT is a pain in the ass”. That was coming out of my mouth… until, you start understanding it. Best tool for the job, XSLT. It’s designed to style XML…

The solution to my problem was easy once you see samples. My problem was XSLT scoping was never discussed in much detail, in any example I saw.

I may eventually write a little code bit, for future reference.