I am currently writing a PHP app which had to have a command line interface. I came across this excellent library in PEAR Console_CommandLine. Its core functionality is very useful out of the box and in case you need to do something really fancy, there is nothing stopping you from extending it further. Here is [...]
I am currently writing a wrapper for PHPUnit for my employer which makes writing Selenium test cases for developers far easier. It would abstract them from the details of knowing server, urls, browser versions, reporting etc. All they now need to do is just write a basic test case for the functionality they added in [...]
I have been playing around with CURL and its awesomeness for a potential idea and had to use some data retrieved by sending a ICMP packet to the host. This was required to check to check stuff like host availability, packet loss etc. The standard stuff. Doing this would be fairly straightforward if you wanted [...]