In previous post, I gave some background to making PHP run on Cowboy web server. In this post, I’m going to provide technical details how to run your own setup. But it’s really not complicated at all. So, let’s install, run and play with unix1/cowboy_fcgi. Prerequisites Erlang (19.0 or newer) installed on Linux use your […]

Background Cowboy is an awesome web server – it’s simple, small, fast, standards compliant, and highly scalable. It also provides easy ways to get started with RESTful web applications. Its downside is that, unlike with Apache, nginx, and other more mainstream servers, it’s only usable in Erlang (and related BEAM languages) environments. There used to […]

The if statement is a low level flow construct in most imperative programming languages. It is traditionally used to do things like this: if (some condition is true) { execute branch 1 of code } else { execute branch 2 of code } where different branches of code represent different execution paths your program could […]

Motivation create a very simple first Erlang/OTP application link to conventional web development I decided one of the simplest things to do would be to create a session storage for PHP in Mnesia. But that, in doing so, I would also create an extremely simple key value store wrapper around Mnesia which would track access […]

This marks the initial release of Simple PHP Object Oriented Framework – spoof on codefly.org. Well, I intend for this to be a framework, but I’m starting with the extensible core – the main class library. To that end, the first crack is at: autoload data access components Autoload is a simple implementation for spl_autoload_register: […]

The purpose of this post is simple: I’ve seen way too many uses of array_merge function with associative arrays in PHP. In most cases the “+” union operator should have been used and here’s why. Given: The result is as follows: array (   ‘abcd’ => ‘value 1’,   0 => ‘value 2’, ) array […]

I searched and looked for this but didn’t find a good solution online: I need to come up with a random alphanumeric string of arbitrary length fast and using least memory. How do you do this in PHP? Most solutions I saw posted would define a set of allowed characters, then iterate arbitrary number of […]