Tag Archives: PHP

MAMP apache freezing

Posted on February 6, 2015 by v.

I’ve switched to MacBook Pro Retina in November after repeating frustrations with different WiFi adapters in an HP ProBook 450 G1 on Ubuntu. I always read that MAMP/WAMP/XAMP is for ‘less experienced’ developers, while native installation (via homebrew on Mac) … Continue reading →

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Launching 57%: waiting for XDebug session

Posted on September 6, 2010 by v.

This time, both browser and eclipse are stuck, and Eclipse freezes at “Launching [project]” 57% (in this case), with details saying “Launching: waiting for XDebug session”.

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Unexpected termination of script. Debugging ended.

Posted on August 20, 2010 by v.

This rather comprehensive error message comes from eclipse when a breakpoint is hit while debugging with XDebug web script on a remote server. It is not that bad as it seems – all I needed to do is remove (watch) … Continue reading →

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Fatal error: call to undefined function imagefilter()

Posted on July 2, 2010 by v.

This and a number of other gd functions are not available by default in Ubuntu Server LAMP setup. Not trivial, but a valid solution can be found here: http://cumu.li/2008/5/13/recompiling-php5-with-bundled-support-for-gd-on-ubuntu

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PHP Development on Windows

Posted on June 17, 2010 by v.

Being a Windows user, during many years of PHP development,  I’ve evaluated various versions of WAMP and XAMPP packages, tried to manually setup Apache and MySQL, and I must say that I’ve had some success there. Finally – I have … Continue reading →

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PHP dies silently

Posted on April 19, 2010 by v.

Just a quick self-reminder that could be interesting. I’m pretty much used to seeing a Fatal error when a time or memory limit is reached in PHP scripts (Apache environment). However, in a highly important script, PHP script was persistent … Continue reading →

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