Archive for December, 2007

Text Measurements with Flash Actionscript 2

Today I found a great class to help me calculating text metrics in Flash. It’s really nice, you can use it to locate every single word / line etc. in a (for instance) wrapping textField. Actionscript 3 has got nice built in methods for this, but unfortunately, for the current project I need to develop with Actionscript 2. Jack Doyle created a very nice actionscript 2 class for this:

http://blog.greensock.com/textmetrics/

PHP Extension order and Core Dumps

After updating my FreeBSD port php and apache I suddenly got a whole lot of core dumps. The hosted websites were running fine, but the core dumps didn’t feel quite right.. (of course).

Another FreeBSD server of mine, also updated to the same version, didn’t have these core dumps.

Doing some research on the web I found that a wrong order in extensions.ini could be a cause of my problems.
Changing the order of the extensions.ini solved my problem!

The following extensions.ini is is working for me:

extension=fileinfo.so
extension=filter.so
extension=json.so
extension=zip.so
extension=hash.so
extension=pdf.so
extension=pgsql.so
extension=ctype.so
extension=mysql.so
extension=mbstring.so
extension=gettext.so
extension=dba.so
extension=sysvshm.so
extension=gmp.so
extension=pdo.so
extension=tidy.so
extension=pcntl.so
extension=openssl.so
extension=readline.so
extension=simplexml.so
extension=calendar.so
extension=posix.so
extension=tokenizer.so
extension=bz2.so
extension=dbase.so
extension=xmlwriter.so
extension=ldap.so
extension=session.so
extension=sybase_ct.so
extension=exif.so
extension=sysvmsg.so
extension=mcrypt.so
extension=bcmath.so
extension=pdo_sqlite.so
extension=mssql.so
extension=sockets.so
extension=zlib.so
extension=pcre.so
extension=curl.so
extension=mhash.so
extension=imap.so
extension=iconv.so
extension=spl.so
extension=dom.so
extension=pspell.so
extension=soap.so
extension=xmlreader.so
extension=shmop.so
extension=sqlite.so
extension=xml.so
extension=xsl.so
extension=mysqli.so
extension=wddx.so
extension=sysvsem.so
extension=ftp.so
extension=xmlrpc.so
extension=snmp.so
extension=ncurses.so
extension=odbc.so
extension=ming.so
extension=gd.so