Just back from an excellent week in Avoriaz. Decent snow for the first time in years – powder, sunshine and great company.
I tried some Rossignol Zenith Z9s and at last carving skis seem to be getting it right after the years of junk foisted upon us by the likes of Salomon. The Z9s are just great in everything.
Does no-one use mod_rewrite?
I can’t quite believe this bug really exists. It’s so fundamental to so many applications, principally redirects which are just used everywhere.
Error-free PHP
Not nearly as good as it sounds. I’ve become plagued by a very irritating problem over the last couple of weeks – I’m getting no error output from PHP whatsoever, neither to the browser nor to logs, even though all such options are enabled. My config files are as stock as they can be and still work. It’s just making debugging nearly impossible. I’m getting the same symptoms on OS X and RedHat EL4, so it’s not a platform-dependent thing. They are also on different versions of Apache (2.0.54-12 from Fink and 2.0.52 from RHN). Grrr.
Update
I found it!! Really silly issue and it explains everything. There was a .htaccess file containing an old line:
php_value display_errors true
It appears that (unlike in the rest of PHP) ‘true’ is interpreted as boolean false in this context. Commenting it out or setting it to 1 makes it work.
PHP register_long_arrays session breakage
Strange behaviour that’s taken me ages to track down. I had the situation where I could create a session, but any changes to it were not saved. session_write_close() didn’t help. Eventually I tracked it down: if you have register_long_arrays disabled (as is the default in PHP5), this can happen. Enabling it fixed the problem. A very simple test case didn’t show this problem, so I guess something in my sessions has a dependency on HTTP_GET_VARS or similar, though these vars do not appear anywhere in my code…
Update
Someone pointed me at this bug report which seems very similar to what I’m seeing. Still no solution though.