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PHPMaster.com: How I Faked Scheduled Database Dumps Without Cron

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 11:06:05 -0500

On PHPMaster.com today there's a new tutorial about a way to simulate cron jobs to dump the contents of a database with a simple script that fires off based on the last login time of a certain user (using the MySqlDumper tool).

My program required a accurate username and password to present its features to the user, and there is one predefined user who is idle most of the time and does just two things: wipe stale database entries and restore the database when needed. According to my login procedure, each time a user successfully logs in the system automatically updates the last login date to the current date. And that was the hint I desperately needed.

A brief snippet of code is included showing how he implemented the solution - MySQL commands and parameters defined in constants and called only when the last login time is less than "today".

Symfony Blog: 3 years after: symfony 1.0 Last release!

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 09:16:38 -0600

As announced on the Symfony project's blog today, they are officially announcing the last release of the 1.0 series in favor of the 1.4 releases.

The 27th of January is kind of an important date in mankind history. Of course, everybody know it is the birthday of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and the date of the invention of the light-bulb by Thomas Edison. To this list, the core team is proud to add the last release of the symfony 1.0 branch: symfony 1.0.22.

It's been three years since the first release in the 1.0.x series was made and a lot of progress has come along since then (including a few other branches) including over 163,000 lines of code, 22 stable releases and more than 300 plugins. You can grab the latest from their 1.4.x series (currently 1.4.1) from thier download page either as a package or as a checkout from their Subversion repository.

Zend Developer Zone: It's Framework Roundup Time!

Mon, 10 Apr 2006 07:46:36 -0500

With all of the flurry going around on the mailing lists for the Zend Framework development, it's easy to see how one could get lost. So, to help make sense of all of it, the Zend Developer Zone presents their second weekly roundup of all things Framework for the last week.

Wow, after 2 weeks of steady growth and activity, the mailing list traffic took a pause early this week. It looked like I was going to get a vacation but apparently last night everybody discovered the "Send" button and things kinda got out of hand. C'mon people, help me out here, I get paid by the word on these things. Post often, daddy needs a new Mac!

There's mention last week of: an Ajax extension, authorization/access control lists, the Zend_Registry extensions, a Japanese translation of the ZF manual, and the proposal of a Zend_Tree extension, and a large discussion on the integration of web services functionality into the framework.