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Zend PHP 5 Certification – Self Test

Chris Norton — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 07:30:56 +0000

Intrigued by a post I found on Alexander Dickson’s blog, I had a go at the Zend PHP 5 Certification Self Test. I scored an average 5/8, which is apparently enough to be told “It looks like you are ready to take the Zend PHP Certification exam.” Will I do it? Perhaps – it’s not that expensive – but does anyone really care about certifications? After the Magento Certification I’m in no hurry to do another one!

The Magento Machine Rolls On: Direct Deposit Added

Chris Norton — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 01:17:34 +0000

I have just finished adding a basic direct deposit payment module to my Australian Magento module. Development only took a day – again, because I didn’t understand some basic things to do with the Magento/Zend framework – and was mostly done by replicating functionality for the Check/Money Order module that’s already in Magento. Although direct deposit is currently lumped in with the rest of the Australian stuff I could always extract it if people in other countries would find it useful. I’m not sure how popular a payment method it is overseas.

The next order of business will be cleaning up the code for release and then moving on to the development of a BPAY payment method, which should be pretty similar to direct deposit.

Fun with PHP

Chris Norton — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 07:32:15 +0000

Well, I finally got off my arse and fixed the admin area for my blog. For the last couple weeks I haven’t been able to access it because of some interesting errors telling me that Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 19456 bytes) … which I thought was odd seeing as I hadn’t changed anything recently and the fact that it failed to allocate 0.2% of the total available and complained of running out of memory. It turned out that my web host had (finally) upgraded to PHP 5.2 which doesn’t actually explain the errors but it makes me feel better than things randomly stopping working.

So I upped the memory limit for PHP to 16Mb and all is now well. I hope.

Junction PHP

Chris Norton — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 14:49:26 +0000

Junction is a new PHP 5 object persistence layer.