Mike's Blog
Detaching a PHP script from the shell on Ubuntu
I've learnt that detaching a PHP script from the shell and allowing it run as a daemon on Ubuntu is not as simple as I first thought. I couldn't simply add an ampersand like this:
$ php ./script &
PHP Mode for emacs on Mac OS X
It's been a long time since I figured this out and I can't remember what resource I used to help me. Anyway to get PHP Mode working with the native emacs bundled with Mac OS X do the following:
$ mkdir elisp; cd elisp $ wget http://bit.ly/cLqD47
Name of current module controller or action from Yii view
I've been using Yii framework a fair bit recently and it seems very nice so far. However I couldn't easily find out how to get hold of these often essential pieces of information from a Yii view. Useful in situations where you want to build a navigation user interface element etc. This is all you need to know...
// Module if(isset($this->module)): echo $this->module->getName(); endif; // Controller echo $this->ID; // Action echo $this->action->id;