Installing on Mac OSX
Unfortunately Mac Port doesn't cover this one so I followed the instructions I found here: http://www.dorianmoore.com/works/2352
Installing on Linux
yum install ffmpeg ffmpeg-devel
I mostly followed the instructions posted here: http://www.mysql-apache-php.com/ffmpeg-install.htm
However the info for the dag repository was not working for me. If you get package not found, then you will need to add few lines in the yum repository for dag packages installation. Create a file named dag.repo in /etc/yum.repos.d with the following contents on it first.
[dag]
name=Dag RPM Repository for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
#baseurl=http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el$releasever/en/$basearch/dag
baseurl=http://dag.linux.iastate.edu/dag/redhat/el5/en/$basearch/dag
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt
enabled=1
I'm starting a new project where it look like I have to use the Zend Framework. There appears to be a tool included that autogenerates the MVC application structure for you. To use it though you have to mess around in the command line on your Mac to set things up. I enventually got everything working.
There are already loads of resources on the interwebs explaining the purpose of regular expressions so no need to explain further here. (Well basically, they allow you to match and extract patterns of text from strings). I just want to document a few quick examples that I use a lot.
Integrating forums with your own application and user base can be a real pain in the ass. I’ve done this in the past with Vbulletin and phpBB, but it’s really not that much fun. Both involved some degree of hacking of their core code which means problems when trying to upgrade (you have to remember every tiny thing you did to make it work). As both products improve and get more advanced you’d think they’d have built nice apis to make this job easier. Apparently not yet…