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Install PHP 5.6 on CentOS/RHEL 7 via YUM (Webtatic and IUS)

Mon, 05 Feb 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Again, another brain dump for future use. A stock installation of CentOS 7 will be packaged with PHP 5.4 which is now end of life. This is how to install PHP 5.6, which is currently only receiving security updates.

Side note: These commands install the basic PHP requirements for Magento.

Installing PHP 5.6 on CentOS 7 via Webtatic

$ rpm -Uvh https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm

$ rpm -Uvh https://mirror.webtatic.com/yum/el7/webtatic-release.rpm

$ yum install php56w php56w-opcache php56w-xml php56w-mcrypt php56w-gd php56w-devel php56w-mysql php56w-intl php56w-mbstring php56w-bcmath php56w-soap

Installing PHP 5.6 on CentOS 7 via IUS

$ yum -y install epel-release

$ wget https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-6.noarch.rpm

$ wget https://centos6.iuscommunity.org/ius-release.rpm

$ rpm -Uvh ius-release*.rpm yum -y update yum -y install php56u php56u-opcache php56u-xml php56u-mcrypt php56u-gd php56u-devel php56u-mysql php56u-intl php56u-mbstring php56u-bcmath php56u-soap

You can also install php-fpm via these repositories. For example: yum install php56w-fpm (webtatic) or yum install php56u-fpm (ius)

Basic Steam RCON Example (Rust)

Sun, 22 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0000

After spending time over Christmas coding a tool to query Steam servers for information. I’ve now been taking the next steps… Sending data to a Steam server!

For this example, I’m going to be using a Rust Dedicated Server, to send a simple command, then in future posts show how I sent scheduled commands (such as adverts, messages and other routine tasks which you would expect a Rust server to run).

Querying Source Servers with PHP : Part 2

Wed, 11 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0000

So I have my JSON data which contains all the query information which was returned from the Source Query Protocol. I’m storing it as a flat JSON file - the reason being (as discussed in my last post) is simply due to speed (or the assumption it would be faster). I don’t want to be getting into caching database queries, optimising the indexes, normalisation etc… As this project is for fun, let’s just store the JSON on the file system, and pull the data out when we need it.

Querying Source Servers with PHP : Part 1

Tue, 03 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Over the Christmas Period, I decided to develop a website to monitor the multitude of gaming servers that I host. As a game server provider, I’ve often wondered how many players are actively playing across the network.

For this, I decided to use a simple LEMP (Linux, NGINX, MySQL, PHP) environment. Furthermore, I wanted this website to be heavily reliant on JSON data, and would try to avoid pulling data from MySQL where possible - as I’m assuming pulling from a JSON file (using caching), is faster than from MySQL.

Shorthand If/Else (ternary) Statements - C#, C++, Python & PHP

Mon, 05 Dec 2016 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve been going through the multiple languages I know recently, and refreshing my knowledge. After working with Python for a few months, I found going back to C# very easy.

I’ve noticed many similarities except for a few; In my opinion the ternary operator slightly differs from each language. So I’d thought I’d write these findings down for future use.

C# & C++

variable = (input > 0) ? ’true’ : ‘false’;