Zend PHP opcode disassembler

I have found a disassembler for Zend's PHP Opcode: Xcache (PHP opcode cacher) contains a PHP script which provides opcode disassembly services.

APC 3.0.17 and PHP 5.2.4

It would appear that APC 3.0.17 breaks down with PHP 5.2.4, that's at least my conclusion from upgrading my website's MediaWiki v1.11.0 installation.

PEAR Web Installer

Here is a quick tutorial on how to install PEAR's WEB Frontend installer.

1) Shell command: pear install PEAR_Frontend_WEB
2) Create file pear.php in the desired web directory with the following content:
<br /> require 'PEAR.php';<br /> require 'pearfrontendweb.php';<br />
I suggest putting this file in a separate folder with proper web server access permissions (i.e. htaccess, htpasswd etc.)
3) Adjust directory permissions for the PEAR system folders download and temp (on my LINUX system, these are located in /tmp/pear)
4) Adjust directory permissions for the PEAR classes folder (on my LINUX system, these are located in /usr/share/pear)

PEAR channels updated automatically

A marvelous new tool is available to the general public since yesterday: SproutBuilder. I decided to give it a try:






Above is a sprout automatically updated of all the PHP PEAR channels I know. The list is composed of entries I add to my Del.icio.us links with the tag pear-channel. Then this list is processed through a YAHOO! Pipe and finally embedded in the ''sprout''.

FeedBurner Awareness Data as RSS feed

I grew tired of logging on my FeedBurner account page to get my statistics data so I devised a Yahoo! Pipe to automate things. The Pipe can be used on any publicly accessible FeedBurner feed: here.