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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!