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  MAMP PRO, PECL, SSH2, and OSX CLI (AKA acronym madness)

  Posted: November 7th, 2011, 10:47pm MST by Chance Garcia

  Or madness in general. So as you may know, I've started using PHPStorm to work locally. I decided to dust off an old SSH2 wrapper I wrote and play with how PHPStorm uses PHPUnit and does refactoring. I knew that I would have to install the extension via PECL and was like, "Oh it can't be that bad to do it through MAMP PRO" and as you may have guessed, I sealed my own fate for a couple hours. One thing I can say is that, even though I use a convenient app like MAMP PRO to set up my local development environment, I'm glad my sysadmin-fu is up to snuff enough to fly without the conveniences because after this ordeal, I feel like I might as well have made my MAMP stack from scratch with all the hoops I jumped tonight. (I'm pretty sure that last sentence is also one of the worst run-on sentences ever).

  The first thing you need to know is that the PECL command is located at the directory

  /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.3.6/bin

  when I tried to run

  sudo ./pecl install -a ssh2 channel://pecl.php.net/ssh2-0.11.3

  from that directory, I got the error:

  Notice: unserialize(): Error at offset 267 of 1133 bytes in Config.php on line 1050
  PHP Notice: unserialize(): Error at offset 267 of 1133 bytes in /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.3.6/lib/php/PEAR/Config.php on line 1050
  ERROR: The default config file is not a valid config file or is corrupted.

  I found out later that the error is most likely caused by the file

  /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.3.6/conf/pear.conf

  So if you get an error, try doing

  sudo mv /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.3.6/conf/pear.conf /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.3.6/conf/pear.conf.bkp

  If you're still getting the error, you can also the following:

  1. Install Xcode Tools from your Mac OS X DVD or download it from Apple Developer Connection
  2. Download the complete PHP source code from php.net into /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.3.6/
  3. Create an include directory in the the php5.3.6 directory.
  4. Unzip/tar the php source archive and move it to/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.3.6/include/
  5. Rename the php source directory to just php (so then it will look like /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.3.6/include/php)
  6. In Terminal use the following commands to compile the extension:
     cd /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.3.6/include/php
./configure

  That should allow you to run the PECL command however, you will probably get a complaint about not having libssh installed. So you will have to

  1. go download libssh2 [www.libssh2.org] As much as I like git, I recommend  downloading the latest release tarball instead of cloning the repo. For some reason, I got a version incompatibility error when trying to run the PECL install with the repo version and had to do all these steps over with the tarball release version.
  2. unzip the directory and cd to the upacked directory

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  Magento Extension GitIgnore Stub

  Posted: October 24th, 2011, 9:15am MDT by Chance Garcia

  As you may or may not know, I've been working with Magento lately. In the past few months, one thing I've found that I needed is a stock .gitignore file for when making extensions. Haven't found one so I made one on github and will also post here for anyone else in need. I'm still relatively new at working with Magento and in someways git/github so please feel free to critique/streamline.

  
# replace {company} and {extension} placeholders with your information

  # ignore phpstorm files
  /.idea

  # Ignore all not in app & skin
  /*
  !/app/
  !/js/

  # ignore all in js, except module files for this module
  /js/*
  !/js/{company}/

  # Ignore all in app, except code & etc
  # Ignore all in app/code except /local/{company}
  /app/*
  !/app/code/
  !/app/etc/
  !/app/design/

  # Ignore all in app/code/local except {company}
  /app/code/core
  /app/code/community
  /app/code/local/*
  !app/code/local/{company}/
  # use lines below if you have multiple company extensions
  # and want to just commit a specific one
  #/app/code/local/{company}/*
  #!app/code/local/{company}/{extension}

  # Ignore all of app/etc except our specific module files
  /app/etc/*
  !/app/etc/modules/
  /app/etc/modules/*
  !/app/etc/modules/{company}_{package}.xml

  #Ignore all of app/design except for our files
  /app/design/*
  !app/design/frontend/
  !app/design/adminhtml/
  /app/design/frontend/*
  !/app/design/frontend/base/
  /app/design/frontend/base/default/etc/
  /app/design/frontend/base/default/template/*
  !/app/design/frontend/base/default/template/{extension}/
  /app/design/frontend/base/default/layout/*
  !/app/design/frontend/base/default/layout/{extension}/*
  /app/design/adminhtml/*
  !/app/design/adminhtml/default/
  /app/design/adminhtml/default/find/
  /app/design/adminhtml/default/default/etc/
  /app/design/adminhtml/default/default/locale/
  /app/design/adminhtml/default/default/template/*
  !/app/design/adminhtml/default/default/template/{extension}/
  /app/design/adminhtml/default/default/layout/*
  !/app/design/adminhtml/default/default/layout/{extension}/*

  
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  Using MySQL Workbench with MAMP

  Posted: October 7th, 2011, 12:07am MDT by Chance Garcia

  Recently I've started working locally due to the PHPStorm IDE. In order to work locally, I invested in MAMP Pro to make use of their GUI interface for configuring vhosts. I also like to use MySQL Workbench for my database work, unfortunately these 2 items never seemed to work together for me before. After a brief google search I was able to find out how to connect to MAMP's MySQL install to do SQL Development, which is by done by choosing the local socket connection method and using the value /Applications/MAMP/tmp/mysql/mysql.sock for the connection.

  

  After setting that up, I got to thinking, "I'm already using an IDE for code convenience and a GUI for vhost convenience, I should set up Server Administration with MySQL Workbench too!" So after some googling, I found an article to help me set up Server Administration with MAMP. Unfortunately the article only got things partially working and has no way to comment on it to have it corrected. So I'm going to outline the steps. Also I just noticed that the images with the article are updated correctly but it's hard to cut and paste an image of something someone has done so I'll just give you the value pairs

  • Configuration File: /Applications/MAMP/tmp/mysql/my.cnf
  • Start: /Applications/MAMP/bin/startMysql.sh -
  • Stop: /Applications/MAMP/bin/stopMysql.sh -
  • Check MySQL Status: ps -xa | grep "/Applications/MAMP/Library/bin/[m]ysqld"

  If the check status doesn't work, just do a ps -xa | grep MAMP and find the correct path to mysqld And that's all you need to know. "/>

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