This turned out to be more complex than I expected. Solr is a PECL extension so , in theory, all you need is:

sudo /usr/local/zend/bin/pecl install solr

If you don’t use admin privileges you get Cannot write to temp directory or Warning: lstat(): Lstat failed

I have listed the error messages and what I needed to do to solve them, in attempt to help anyone having the same issues that I did.

Install Xcode First

If you haven’t installed xcode then you’ll see something like this:

Cannot find autoconf. Please check your autoconf installation and the $PHP_AUTOCONF environment variable is set correctly and then rerun this script.

The easiest way to get all the tools needed for building software on your Mac is to install Xcode , free from the Mac App Store.

Missing curl

The first proper error I got was:
pecl/solr requires PHP extension "curl"

Add -n to the pecl install command so that will ignore dependencies, otherwise as it doesn’t load shared modules it won’t detect curl. See the last comment on PECL Bug 17012.

Missing header file

Now it at least started building but then ended with this error:
/private/tmp/pear/temp/solr/php_solr.h:87:31: error: ext/json/php_json.h: No such file or directory

So, I’m missing a file called ‘php_json.h’. Where to get it from? Well there are two options the quick way and the ‘proper’ way. We could just copy the header file from MacOS X’s built in version of PHP – however the versions might not be the same.

• /usr/bin/php -v PHP 5.3.6
• /usr/local/zend/bin/php -v PHP 5.3.5

I decided to get the matching version of the file from the PHP source. This is quite easy — just go to php.net/releases and download the same version as your Zend Server Community Edition.

Once we have the file we need a directory in the ext folder:

sudo mkdir /usr/local/zend/include/php/ext/json

Now copy our new version into the folder — change the source path to wherever your new header file lives:

sudo cp /Users/myname/Downloads/php-5.3.5/ext/json/php_json.h /usr/local/zend/include/php/ext/json/


At this point I thought i was done, ran the pecl install command (don’t do this yet) , enabled the extension in php.ini and restarted PHP.

Wrong Architecture

PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/local/zend/lib/php_extensions/solr.so' - dlopen(/usr/local/zend/lib/php_extensions/solr.so, 9): no suitable image found. Did find: /usr/local/zend/lib/php_extensions/solr.so: mach-o, but wrong architecture in Unknown on line 0


Pecl is creating a a dynamic module for a different architecture than php is using.

You can check which architecture your php is built for using:

lipo -info /usr/local/zend/bin/php

Non-fat file: /usr/local/zend/bin/php is architecture: i386

Compare this to the file that the pecl installer created

lipo -info /usr/local/zend/lib/php_extensions/solr.so

Non-fat file: solr.so is architecture: x86_64

My Mac is an Intel Core i7 so pecl created an x86_64 dynamic library. However Zend Server Community Edition (as of September 2011) is compiled for i386!

OK so how do we fix this? We need to tell the compiler which architecture to build for using the CFLAGS environment variable.

Note: If you have already tried to install and it built for the wrong architecture just add -f to the pecl install command to fore a rebuild

The Code

sudo CFLAGS="-arch i386" /usr/local/zend/bin/pecl install -n solr

Now just enable the module using the ZendServer control panel

Summary

1. Install Xcode , free from the Mac App Store
2. Download the PHP source from php.net/releases
3. copy php_json.h from PHP source to /usr/local/zend/include/php/ext/json/
4. sudo CFLAGS=”-arch i386″ /usr/local/zend/bin/pecl install -n solr
5. enable the module using the ZendServer control panel or editing the php.ini file.

Highly recommended: 4 stars

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The first tutorial iPhone Localization in Xib (Nib) Files is a simple step-by-step walkthrough creating a view based iPhone Application which is localised for English and French.

In Localizing your iPhone application part 2 Adeem covers the use of NSLocalizedString and the cli command `genstrings` to generate .strings files for your application and then use them in code.

When i first learnt BASIC one of the first apps i wrote from scratch (as opposed to typing in listings from a book) was a program to find if a number was Perfect.

A perfect number is defined as a positive integer where the sum of it’s proper divisors is equal to the number itself.

The first perfect number is 6. The proper divisors as 1,2,3. 1+2+3=6

Simple.

Loop round finding all factors of a number a sum them.

I have written this app in every language i have played with from BASIC through Pascal, C, LISP, Java,PHP &c.

I have never really got into Mac application development – never had the need. Pretty much every problem i come across can be solved with using a bit of code in one (or all!) of AppleScript, shell, PHP and a probably a database for good measure. Side not he first web site i built was a Hotel search system built using Applescript and FileMaker Pro, long before the days of PHP  & MySQL.)

So now the iPhone, this time i can’t bodge my way through gluing other things together. If i want an iPHone app i will need to learn Objective C and Cocoa Touch,

My first app is, unsurprisingly, Perfect. That’s the name – not a description.

Needs a text box to hold a number, a button to start the calculation, and a text box to hold the result.

OK. So i had a look at some of the ‘Hello,world!’ on-line tutorials.

One rather conveniently had a text box to type a message and a button to display it.

SO now i had an app with a text box, a button and a label.

Looks like enough people sent in feedback. Thank you.

I love my iPhone but have recently been diagnosed with a hearing disorder know as Otosclerosis ,sadly this is degenerative and is much worse in one ear than the other.

At the moment there is no way to adjust the audio balance on the iPhone which means i have to either have it too loud in one ear or not hear it in the other.

There is a bug in Microsoft Word 2004 that will not let you search for a paragraph mark ^p when wildcard support switched on in the find dialog.

The ^13 substitution suggested on some of Microsoft’s support pages also doesn’t work as the mac version seems to internally translate ^13 into ^p

The only obvious work around is to replace ^p with something else NOT present in your document!.
e.g. replace ^p with § with wildcards turned off then do your wildcard search/replace. When done just find/replace § with ^p

Note: You will probably want to disable track changes while swapping the paragraphs round.

Kludge? Yes

Does it work? Yes

According to a Microsoft support article this bug also applies to Find/repalce executed through VBA and AppleScript

The cathedral was supposed to be the largest in all Christendom but they ran out of money and so there is a wall which should have been the long side of the cross but is literally just a wall you can climb up and get a pretty good view of Siena
Stopped to look at the Miesta on the way out

Visited the Crypt ( which I don’t think was open last time I came) it is about 30 ft under the Cathedral but they have excaveted even further down – the fluted columns streetch down anoth 100+ ft

Go over ponte Vecchio and go down via Guicciardini

After lunch went back to the hotel and had a drink on the teras

We went to the Uffizi at 4 and spent a while going round, sadly they now allow tour guide in the galleries which means there is the incessant noise of the guides giving their spiel. One particulary obnoxious one stood onfront of Leonardo’s Annunication for about ten minutes with her group of 15+ people while she described all the paintings in the room!
As this ( and Caravagio’s mediasa) are my favourite paintings in the whole of the Uffizi I was just a little annoyed

We were going to the Yellow Bar for dinner but it was closed so instead we went to Gusto ( Leo the Lion ) just across the street. Not as good as YB but nothing really wrong with it ;-)

I know you get what you pay for but I would be willing to pay a bit more just so Ryan Air could afford a better tanoy system!

Got the bus from Pisa airport to Florence which took about an hour and a half.

Checked into the hotel and changed into shorts as the weather here is soo warm.

Wandered round for a bit and had some lunch in Plazza della Signoria

Had an ok capriciosa pizza – the toping was fine but the base was a little under cooked. Sadly I don’t think they had a proper pizza oven.

Walked round the Duomo area then went up to the Cuppola it takes a while and the stairs are pretty steep but the view is well worth the effort.

Walking round the circumference you realize quite how huge an achievment it was for Brunelleschi (obviously not on his own!) to build it in 1418
( over 100 years after work on the cathedral was started)

While testing my VPN setup Remote Desktop got a little confused and let me connect to itself!

Creating this rather nice ‘hall of mirrors’ effect