appname.resource.action

for instance:
myapp.post.create

I’m building this app using Zend Framework, I’ts not the first time i have to deal with Zend, but it was the first using the Rest Server component, and I was shock to find the setClass method did support the namespace, but it wasn’t being used, so I decided to roll out my own extending theirs


rroche at Ramon-Roches-MacBook-Pro in /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.3.6
$ la
total 32
drwxr-xr-x 8 rroche admin 272 Dec 5 12:01 .
drwxr-xr-x 5 rroche admin 170 Sep 29 16:34 ..
drwxr-xr-x 14 rroche admin 476 Nov 28 16:54 bin
drwxr-xr-x 5 rroche admin 170 Dec 5 12:37 conf
drwxr-xr-x 39 rroche admin 1326 Dec 5 12:05 include
drwxr-xr-x 4 rroche admin 136 Sep 29 16:34 lib
drwxr-xr-x 3 rroche admin 102 May 25 2011 modules

your php utitlies are located under bin/ so my absolute PECL path is located under

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


Installing GeoIP from Homebrew

So the actual db needs to be installed, luckily for us someone already created a brew formula for this

rroche at Ramon-Roches-MacBook-Pro in /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.3.6/include/php
$ brew install geoip

as easy as that, the PECL installer will take care of the rest

Installing GeoIP PHP libraries from PECL

once I had located PECL I tried searching and installing GeoIP

rroche at Ramon-Roches-MacBook-Pro in ~/
$ /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.3.6/bin/pecl search geoip

Retrieving data…0%
Matched packages, channel pecl.php.net:
=======================================
Package Stable/(Latest) Local
geoip 1.0.8 (stable) 1.0.8 Map IP address to geographic places

$ /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.3.6/bin/pecl install geoip

Only to find it fail under some missing php dependencies located under /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.3.6/include/php
which on my setup where missing, a quick Google search and I found that i had to download the MAMP Component Zip file from MAMP main site ( you can find the download section here http://www.mamp.info/en/downloads/index.html )
once you downloaded locate the php source zip that relates to what you are using, in my case php-5-3-6.zip (or something similar), unzip it and if your php folder is named php-5-3-6 rename it to simply php then move it to

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

once there go to the php directory you just moved

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

you will need to configure php to create some directories you will need

rroche at Ramon-Roches-MacBook-Pro in /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.3.6/include/php
$ ./configure
$ (.. all the config verbose ..)

once you have done that, you can try to install geoip from PECL again this time it wont fail, (in my case I had to do `sudo` I’m not sure if this is due to something I previously did I tend to play with my folder permissions and owners)

rroche at Ramon-Roches-MacBook-Pro in /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.3.6/include/php
$ /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.3.6/bin/pecl install geoip

at the end of the installation process you will notice it warns you about adding a reference to the geoip extension to your php.ini file

extension=geoip.so

open MAMP then go to File -> Edit Template -> PHP -> PHP 5.3.6 and add the following almost at the very end

[geoip]
extension=geoip.so

only followed by

; DONT REMOVE: MAMP PRO php5.3.6.ini template compatibility version: 1


Now restart apache, from MAMP just Stop and Start the services, and you will be all done.

Important:

The path to your PHP and PEAR if you are using MAMP is something similar to this

PHP:

/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.xxx/bin/php

PEAR:

/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.xxx/bin/pear

notice the php5.xxx this will depend on the version of php you are using, in my case is php5.3.6 so have that in mind if you are planning on copy pasting this guide

Instructions:

1. Turn on PEAR auto discover
   /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.3.6/bin/pear config-set auto_discover 1

   As Alex from the comments states you might need to update pear
   cd /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.3.6/bin
sudo ./pear upgrade pear

2. Install PHPUnit from pear.phpunit.de
   /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.3.6/bin/pear install pear.phpunit.de/PHPUnitThis will install PHPUnit under
   /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.3.6/bin/phpunit
3. If done right the phpunit file should already contain reference to the MAMP’s php you are choosing to use, now to have phpunit available on your system as a command you can do something similar to this:
   sudo ln -s /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.3.6/bin/phpunit /usr/local/bin/phpunit

I always try to keep my binaries and executables under /usr/local/bin but this is my choice you can try some other directory as long as you have it exposed on via your EXPORTS

brew install mtr –no-gtk

I got ImageMagick Installed with nothing more than brew install imagemagick, big thanks to the community behind Homebrew dont forget to pay them a visit on IRC freenode #machomebrew

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When i updated to Lion i found out that most of my libraries where gone, including the much needed ImageMagick, i couldn’t install it with MacPorts for some odd reason so i installed it by source, huge mistake, one of my apps stopped working.

Today i tried installing with Homebrew, but i got stuck trying to install libtiff, if you ever run into this problem, just try this

By doing a quick Google Search i found out that you can download the file on your Hombrew Cache folder like user mikel notes here https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/pull/5168#issuecomment-2047059

UPDATE:

After installing ImageMagick i found that i could not run identify or convert, the error was

dyld: Library not loaded: /opt/local/lib/libltdl.7.dylib
Referenced from: /usr/local/bin/convert
Reason: Incompatible library version: convert requires version 11.0.0 or later, but libltdl.7.dylib provides version 10.0.0
Trace/BPT trap: 5

After googling a little i found this bug https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/issues/6891 it’s for OS X and Lion, i had to remove little-cms and imagemagick then install again just imagemagick

brew remove little-cms –force
brew remove imagemagick
brew install imagemagick

Turns out that doesn’t cut it either, i followed this post with a question on Stack Overflow I’ll try to install from source again.

I’m using libfaac for aac compression, you can get more conversion helpers here ConversionMatrix

using this can be really tricky, lets consider the following example

once you have run this ill explain it a little bit further:

the solution here is to pass reference to the parent object on the calling function

I think i am going to add a new class on top of both to use a single interface for both API’s, seamlessly switching between them when the rate limit on any has been met.

Google Rate limit is: 5000 Requests per IP per Day, and Yahoo offers 50,000 Requests per App per Day. ( it is unclear to me if a day is 24 hours from the moment you reach your limit or if you start fresh every new day. )

Source can be found here on github Geocoding API

Source can be found here on github screenutil.js