The expo floor is now closed.  The Phorum booth had decent traffic over the two days.  It was more than it appeared the HP megabooth was getting.  We heard one thing over and over.  Admins of forums really want to integrate them with their existing user systems.  We have some ability in this area, but we all now think we need to make it a no brainer feature of Phorum.  We did confirm while we were there that the Phorum embedding module will work with Joomla.  It uses the Mambo connector and that works with the current release of Joomla.  They told us that 1.5 would be out soon and it may not work with 1.5.  We will have to look at that.  They were right next to us in the expo hall.  Others that were in the DotOrg pavillion included  …

So, I asked in #mysql on feenode about an IRC channel for the 2007 MySQL Conference.  Some folks said that #mysqluc had been used before.  So, we started it.  If you wanna join, hop in.  If you hear of a more official channel, drop by and let us know.

There are a lot of The Conference starts tomorrow posts up right now, so here's mine.

I got down to Sunnyvale this morning leaving downtown San Francisco for five days. I stay at the Pacific Inn in Sunnyvale which is a convenient ten minute ride from the Santa Clara Convention Center, where the conference starts tomorrow.

I met a few *cough* guys from MySQL already, which is great, it's been years since I've seen some them. I look forward to meet all the rest you!

Also, make sure to follow my twitting through the conference.

And I finally got to meet Damien, woohoo! ;-)

Xing is Europe's leading Business Network with more than 2 million members. Recently, Xing announced that they would come up with an API later this year to get access to the network. As far as I know, Xing was developed by ePublica using Perl and MySQL.

Having an API is essential in these mashup days. I was invited to the private alpha test and implemented a reference implementation of an API client via PHP5 which behaves like SOAPClient (but uses ReST as the transport mechanism) and overloads the methods that are available.

Here's an example of how to call it currently (API is …

As I posted a while back, Phorum will be at the MySQL Conference. Its coming up soon and I wanted to let anyone that is going to be there know that our full team (of 3 people) will be there thanks to the donations of our users and a couple of our employers. If you see the big dog, that is us. Stop by and say Hi!

In about two weeks, I'll by flying to Santa Clara to attend the MySQL Conference. While this is pretty cool by itself, there's more. I won the trip and all expenses are covered by the cool guys at Proven Scaling!

A few weeks ago, they came out with the offer to send three people from around the world to the conference. All you had to do was to describe why you want to go, why they should pick you and what you do. I did that and here I go :-)

Congratulations to Sean Walberg and Carlos Proal Aguilar, the other two winners. See you in California!

This will be my first trip to the West Coast and I'm really looking forward to see how things are in Silicon Valley. Jeremey from Proven Scaling was kind enough to schedule my flights so I could stay a few more days in Santa …

In the spirit of April 1st — only the other way around — I'd like to disperse a spoof I've been working on for quite a while now. Last autumn I began to tell people about a new, revolutionary database called "CouchDb".

I explained CouchDb’s advanced design and state-of-the-art feature set, leaving everyone with the impression that a lot of technical problems that exist within traditional database systems have been taken care of. For example, CouchDb’s on- and offline replication feature is the basis for a super-easy to implement load balancing and …

The first version of this code failed to work on 5.1 so here is a version that does:

if(DATABASE_REPLICATION_CHECK)
{
$result = mysql_query("show slave status;");
$row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result);
if( ($row['Slave_IO_Running']!='Yes') || ($row['Slave_SQL_Running']!='Yes') )
{
$fp = fopen('tmp/halt', 'w+');
fclose($fp);
header('Location: index.php');
}
}

Remember to add something like:

if(file_exists('tmp/halt')) exit('Unable to complete request at this time');

at the start of your app execution so as to stop users entering data that can cause all kinds of living nightmares when it comes to patching the data together.
--
Copyright 2006-2008 Andrew Rose [rose.andrew@gmail.com] [andrewrose.co.uk]

I'll be giving a presentation about CouchDb tomorrow night at the PHP UG Dortmund. If you're in the area, come and say hello.

You'll learn what CouchDb is, why it is so cool and how to use it with PHP. The talk will be in German, but I'll make some material available in English some time after the presentation.

In case you'd like to see this or my High Availability talk at your local usergroup, company or conference, you can find contact information at my website. I'd like to hear from you!

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