graham brookins’s blog

Well after the afterglow of becoming a published author had faded I was nominated for an eZ Award for my first article published earlier this year and today my next article has been published on ez.no! This latest (second) article has been titled “How to Use eZ Publish Extensions: Google Analytics“. It is quite an exciting year.

I’m a published author! This month eZ systems published my article on “Installing an eZ publish payment gateway“.

So I’m trying to regain my sanity, really trying
Yet I’m still watching old episodes of South Park :\

I found a neat hack to keep up to date on the latest work on eZ components via this rss feed, though this link is more complete, I’ll be adding this to my ezpublish.opml file shortly. I’ll see if I can’t find any other eZ publish related rss feeds to add to the opml file at the same time.

Man, what a tuff call … what do I love more eZ publish or OPML , prolly eZ publish cause I can make it generate opml.

//graham
South Park - 7×03 - Toilet Paper

Updated!: I have added a demo of svn running on php 5.0.5, php5.demo.ezcommunity.net
We are looking for several other users and developers in the eZ publish 2 community to sponsor the development, documentation and release of php4.4 -> php5.1 improvements to eZ publish 2.3. Contact Brookins Consulting for more information.

Backstory …

I was working on some server administration this weekend (very hush hush mumbojumbo ).

I started thinking about using eZ publish 2 on versions of PHP greater than 4.3.9, say like 4.4.x or even php 5.0.x

I have been meaning to checkout eZ publish 2.3 (svn) and do a little more work to the community build in svn, review extra modules in svn as contributions, give a little more back to the community. (Is anyone even listening or care anymore ) No matter I do what I do and so will you.

Results of testing at first glance (php5) ..

• As normal with eZ publish 2 (on newer versions of php 4). eZ publish 2 generates a lot of php `warnings` in the httpd error log file.
• It seems that many of the index page errors (running under php5) are of a more serious nature than normal php4 warnings

Seems that several new kinds of `warnings`, `notices` and `fatal errors`.
1) PHP Notice: Trying to get property of non-object
2) PHP Warning: Call-time pass-by-reference has been deprecated - argument passed by value;
3) PHP Fatal error: Cannot redeclare eZOnline::$OnlineTypeID
4) PHP Notice: Undefined variable: (most common)
5) PHP Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() (second most common)

It seems that the core of eZ publish 2 has a number of places in the software code which are dependant on depricated PHP features, functionality, syntax, etc.

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I saw this come through my mail this morning.

A very interesting (to me, heh, only) prolly look at
eZ systems, eZ publish and the PHP community
and their sampleing, interaction and usage of each
other’s work.
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Today, As I sigh a breath of relief; I think about all that has happened in my life leading up to today.

Today has been a personal goal for a very long time and today I now that I have reached this goal and climb above this peak the view changes as looking up to this peak as my goal to the rapidly changing view of the next 4 peaks or goals just now coming into view.

I think about how proud I am that I have been able to continue to strive towards my goals and how fortunate I have been to have been to get here.

From the people who have supported and encouraged me, to the people who didn’t both spurring me forward towards my desires and goals.

Reminding me that I owe a rather large debt to far to many who have been in my life, whether for the good, the bad and the ugly, each is more than a bit of my past, they are a ever present memory that serves as a reminder in those lulls between the storms.

A strong thank you goes out to you, princes and princesses of my past.

Watching the film about F/OSS and just what F/OSS means, Revolution OS. It is well worth the $27 for the powerfull inspiration it gives you when you watch it. Even though I must have watched it, listened to it over 28 times, each time I enjoy it, it is like gnu all over again

Today Brookins Consulting anounced their recently aquired eZ publish partnership, we now are listed in several places, best placement, here, here, and here, as well as here on ez.no.

Smiling like a good little GNU.
Ever smirking through the roller coaster ride called life // graham

Only now does 7x / Dana’s Advise Begin to slowly make sense …

I’ve been really getting into all things OPML, it’s really exciting, thanks Dave

I recently decided to post a bit about OPML to the forums but kracker beat me to it …