First, we will make sure that the development environment and libraries are install on your server
Setup Development Environment tools and libraries

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y -q install make g++ flex bison build-essential zlib1g-dev binutils cmake
sudo apt-get -y -q install libmcrypt-dev libmhash-dev libxslt1-dev libtidy-dev libbz2-dev libxml2-dev libssl-dev libmysqlclient16 libmysqlclient16-dev
sudo apt-get -y -q install libpng12-dev libpng12-0 libpng3 libjpeg62 libjpeg62-dev libxpm-dev libpcre3 libpcre3-dev zlib1g zlib1g-dev libltdl-dev libltdl7
sudo apt-get -y -q install pkg-config libcurl4-openssl-dev libfreetype6 libfreetype6-dev libc-client2007e libc-client2007e-dev libkrb5-3 libkrb5-dev
sudo apt-get -y -q install openssl libglobus-openssl libglobus-openssl-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libicu-dev libicu44 libpspell-dev
sudo apt-get -y -q install linux-libc-dev libc-dev-bin libc-bin libc-client2007e-dev eglibc-source libkrb5-3 libkrb5-dev libkrb53 libkrb5support0
sudo apt-get -y -q install libncurses5-dev libncurses5 ncurses-base ncurses-bin ncurses-term libaio-dev

Installing Apache 2.2.21 from source

wget http://apache.mirror.nexicom.net//httpd/httpd-2.2.21.tar.gz
tar zxf httpd-2.2.21.tar.gz cd httpd-2.2.21
./configure --enable-file-cache --enable-cache --enable-disk-cache --enable-mem-cache --enable-deflate --enable-expires --enable-headers --enable-usertrack --enable-ssl --enable-cgi --enable-vhost-alias --enable-rewrite --enable-so
make -s
sudo make install
sudo mkdir /var/www/
sudo chgrp -R www-data /var/www/

Configure Apache2 to start automatically when system is rebooted

runlevel (should output a number like 2)
cd /etc/rcX.d/ (replace X with the number you saw when you run 'runlevel')

sudo ln -s -T /usr/local/apache2/bin/apachectl S80apache

Easy enough, Apache2 is already installed and ready to serve normal HTML web pages.

You can control the status of the web server with these commands:

Stop the web server
/usr/local/apache2/bin/apachectl stop

Start the web server
/usr/local/apache2/bin/apachectl start
Installing MySQL 5.6 from source

sudo groupadd mysql
sudo useradd -r -g mysql mysql

sudo mkdir /var/log/mysql/
sudo chgrp -R mysql /var/log/mysql/

wget http://dev.mysql.com/get/Downloads/MySQL-5.6/mysql-5.6.3-m6.tar.gz/from/http://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/mysql/
mv index.html mysql.tar.gz
tar zxf mysql.tar.gz
cd mysql-5.6.3-m6/
mkdir bld
cd bld
cmake -DBUILD_CONFIG=mysql_release ..
sudo make install

cd /usr/local/mysql
sudo chown -R mysql .
sudo chgrp -R mysql .
sudo scripts/mysql_install_db –user=mysql –basedir=/usr/local/mysql/ –datadir=/usr/local/mysql/data

sudo chown -R root .
sudo chown -R mysql data

sudo cp support-files/my-medium.cnf /etc/my.cnf
sudo cp support-files/mysql.server /etc/init.d/mysql.server

Edit configuration file sudo nano /etc/mysql/my.cnf

under [MYSQLD] edit or add the following lines:
basedir=/usr/local/mysql
datadir=/usr/local/mysql/data
to save
to exit

sudo /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqld_safe --user=mysql &
sudo /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqladmin -u root password "NEW PASSWORD"


Installing PHP 5.4 from source

wget http://downloads.php.net/stas/php-5.4.0beta2.tar.gz
tar zxf php-5.4.0beta2.tar.gz
cd php-5.4.0beta2/
'./configure' '--disable-short-tags' '--enable-exif' '--with-zlib' '--with-bz2' '--with-openssl' '--with-pcre-regex' '--with-gettext' '--with-mcrypt' '--with-mhash' '--with-iconv' '--with-gd' '--with-jpeg-dir' '--with-png-dir' '--with-zlib-dir' '--with-xpm-dir' '--with-xsl' '--with-tidy' '--with-freetype-dir' '--enable-gd-native-ttf' '--enable-calendar' '--enable-mbstring' '--enable-ftp' '--enable-bcmath' '--enable-sockets' '--enable-dom' '--enable-xml' '--enable-soap' '--enable-libxml' '--enable-session' '--enable-simplexml' '--enable-calendar' '--without-pear' '--enable-mbstring' '--disable-cli' '--with-png-dir=/usr/lib/libpng12.so' '--with-mysql-sock' '--with-mysql=mysqlnd' '--with-mysqli=mysqlnd' '--with-pdo-mysql=mysqlnd' --with-imap-ssl --with-kerberos --with-curl --enable-ftp
make -s
sudo make install

If you want to configure PHP in development mode, run this line:
sudo cp php.ini-development /usr/local/lib/php.ini

If you want to configure PHP in production mode, run this line:
sudo cp php.ini-production /usr/local/lib/php.ini

Configuring Apache2 to run PHP scripts

wget http://apache.parentinginformed.com/httpd/mod_fcgid/mod_fcgid-2.3.6.tar.gz
tar zxf mod_fcgid-2.3.6.tar.gz
cd mod_fcgid-2.3.6
APXS=/usr/local/apache2/bin/apxs ./configure.apxs
make
sudo make install

You also need to edit Apache2 config file

Order allow,deny
Allow from all
AllowOverride All
Options MultiViews Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks ExecCGI


If you tried to install the APC extension on the MAC and got the following error:

pecl mac error: ‘apc_regex’ has no member named ‘nreg’

The problem is that APC depends on the PCRE library and we need to install it before compiling APC. Here is how to fix it!

• Open a TERMINAL session,  type :  mkdir  temp
• Head up to this page and download a PCRE library (try to use the latest one). I took pcre-8.12.zip, put the file inside the temp directory
• uncompress the PCRE archive via Finder (or any other way)


cd  pcre-x.xx replace x with the version number (example: cd  pcre-8.12)
./configure
make
sudo make install


• now download the latest APC release (link here)
• uncompress the APC archive via finder  (or terminal by typing    tar zxf  APC-X-XX  replace X with archive name and version number )
• type

cd ~/temp/APC-3.1.9    (change the version number if you're using something different)
phpize
./configure
make
sudo make install

you should see something similar to this when it’s done compiling

Installing shared extensions:     /usr/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20090626/
Installing header files:          /usr/include/php/

Modify your php.ini file to have the extension loaded at php startup

• Open /private/etc/php.ini   (in Finder, select GO menu, select GO TO FOLDER and type /private/etc)
• add this line in the Dynamic extensions area

extension=/usr/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20090626/apc.so


Restart the web server (reboot your machine if your lazy, or go into the System preferences, click on Sharing, un-select Web sharing , wait a few seconds and select it again )

You’re done, congrats!

Note:

There is a bug in version APC 3.1.9 

if you get error

Fatal error: Unknown: apc_fcntl_unlock failed: in Unknown on line 0

Relax! just modify the file apc_lock.h inside the APC folder you created. Edit the following line around lines 155-160

Find the following:

# define apc_lck_rdunlock(a) apc_fcntl_unlock(&a TSRMLS_CC)

Replace by the following

# define apc_lck_rdunlock(a) apc_fcntl_unlock(a TSRMLS_CC)

Recompile APC by doing:

cd ~/temp/APC-x-xx (replace X with version number) make clean phpize ./configure make sudo make install

And restart your web server! Too easy !  enjoy!

Like many people, I have to maintain several web sites. The web sites I maintain are often built from the ground up but I wanted something new. I tried every versions of Drupal and WordPress and none of them perfectly suit my needs. WordPress by default is slow and does not support multiple languages content without external plug-ins. If you install any of these plugins you cannot upgrade the main WordPress version without making sure there is a new version of the plug-in also. Drupal support multiple language but does not work the way I expect it to work. If you post a page with pictures and want to translate the page to another language, you need to re-upload all the images, so they end up stored twice. The problem could be fix with external plug-ins.

Solution  –> theKolonee <–

theKolonee will be a mix of my favorites features from various CMS, it will have extended default functionnality without requiring the use of any external plug-ins. The problem with that is letting other people extend your product so I required a framework. I checked some frameworks: Zend, Symphony. There all nice but they will slow down any application to a crawl.

The problem with these frameworks is that they are starting small and they end up having more than a hundred source files. They often focus on features  without being speed demon.

Solution –> WoxCore <–

WoxCore if my answer. It’s a framework used by theKolonee CMS and features are added when they are really needed. Performance and usefulness are top priorities. The framework support a basic MV / MVC mechanism. Here is a list of the core modules currently implemented:

• Core: provide several functions to read $_GET and $_POST, language detection and more
• Comment: functions related to comments handling
• DB : database wrapper
• Controller: define the MVC mechanism
• Directory: functions to handle filesystem functions
• Files: functions to handle filesystem functions
• Import: all import functions (misc files, images, videos)
• Log : helper class for logging events in the database
• HTML: html helper, let you write html ouput without knowing any HTML coding standard.
• Security: Handle authentication and access control
• Caching:  pages  and data caching
• and more…

Data  classes

• Events: functions related to events management
• News: functions related to news management

Okay, that may sound a lot, you may think there are hundred of files also?  yes and no! there are a few files yes, but they are compiled in a single file that is used by your pages. The file itself is 19k (as we speak), so that’s not scary at all.

Caching mechanism

Each page can be set to be cached or not individually, the built-in modules will also used cache by default when fetching data from the MYSQL database.

Time for examples
This is a basic MVC example. Here you have the controller which will handle caching, creation of a page name ‘Error’, and when the framework’s Render() function is called, it will display a linked html file name ‘error-default-html-en.php’

Woxcore supports multiple render targets (web, mobile, ….) and multi-languages. So depending of the current language or render target, another html file may be linked


function __autoload($class_name) { include '../woxcore/'. $class_name . '.php';}$ctrl = new wcController('error','html');
switch( $ctrl->Action )
{
default:
break;
}
$ctrl->Render();

examples of the wcHTML helper class


echo wcHtml::EncodeHeader('hello world'); //produce

hello world

echo wcHtml::EncodeHeader(‘hello world’,2); //produce

hello world

if you want to transform an array to list items

$my_array=array(1,2,3)
wcHtml::encodeList( $my_array )/*
will produce

• 1
• 2
• 3

want to know more? drop me a line

LINKS

theKolonee web site

Go check the site for more information.

* supports the latest PHP version 5.3.2

Features

• Multi lingual
• MVC
• Static content can be separated and delivered over a CDN (content delivery network)
• bulk import of files
• support APC and MemCache?
• very lightweight and fast (one single file, so no recursive includes)
• Uses PHP 5.3 new features

Out of the box:

• Host multiple sites with only one applicative instance
• Each site can support up to 255 languages
• Visual text editor
• Fassssssssst (the core framework is a single file ~ around 20k)
• MVC system which is easily expandable
• Facebook integration
• Forums and photo galleries (with IPTC and Exif support, support for bulk importing files)
• support APC and MEMCACHE
• and more…

if you want to help drop me a line!

Requirements

• PHP 5.3

early screenshot of the administration interface

kolonee screenshot