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Why Kohana Rocks

I’ve worked with all the major players in the PHP framework space, and there are good and bad takeaways from all of them. My goal isn’t to bash on any of the others, because they all have fairly equal strengths and weaknesses.. some obvious and others not so much. This post will instead be focused on one of my favorite frameworks, Kohana.

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BuddyPress Features List

buddypress feature list

Buddypress is an awesome add-on for WordPress, turning an average blog into a full-featured Social Media Network or multi-user blog or forum. Buddypress Features new and robust tools built in for leveraging internal communication and promoting user interaction. Here are some highlights of why it’s often best to just build on Buddypress from the beginning rather than building on WordPress..

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Setup PEAR on Mac OS X Leopard

First, let’s grab the PEAR installer:

curl http://pear.php.net/go-pear > go-pear.php
sudo php -q go-pear.php

Press enter to use default until you get to the file layout and edit the first to be /usr/local

1. Installation prefix ($prefix) : /usr/local
2. Temporary files directory     : $prefix/temp
3. Binaries directory            : $prefix/bin
4. PHP code directory ($php_dir) : $prefix/PEAR
5. Documentation base directory  : $php_dir/docs
6. Data base directory           : $php_dir/data
7. Tests base directory          : $php_dir/tests

Press Enter to continue and Y to install

PEAR_Frontend_Web-beta, PEAR_Frontend_Gtk2, and MDB2

Hit Y to let PEAR update your include path

That’s it! You should be able to type in pear version to see PEAR installed.

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