When it comes to setting up your PHP dev environment, you know the drill. Google for a LAMP/WAMP tutorial and then run through the installation steps: apache, php, mysql. Then, after setting up/checking out your project’s source code, you have to configure an apache vhost file. Well the day is getting close when we can cross the apache step off the list. I recently came across Built-in web server and took it for a test drive.
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I recently had to build a new development system. I wanted to document the hardware I chose since I am running Ubuntu and was not sure if my hardware choices would work.
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I’ve recently been investigating the use of Universally Unique Identifiers with PHP. A suprising google search for php uuid yields the php function uniqid() which does not produce a uuid at all. I searched further and found no shortage of PHP classes and functions which will generate uuid’s. This is likely due to the fact that there are no core functions built into PHP to handle uuid generation.
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