1. Upgrade PEAR

1. Download http://pear.php.net/go-pear.phar to C:\xampp\php\go-pear.phar

2. Run this in cmd.exe (cygwin prompts hosed somehow), taking all defaults

c:\xampp\php>go-pear.bat

1. Yay.

c:\xampp\php>pear version
PEAR Version: 1.9.4
PHP Version: 5.3.5
Zend Engine Version: 2.3.0
Running on: Windows NT FAI1046162 6.1 build 7600 (Unknow Windows version Enterpr
ise Edition) i586

2. Install/upgrade PHPUnit

Now we can use the cygwin shell. Not sure all these channels are needed, I did this out of order.

cd /cygdrive/c/xampp/php
pear update-channels
pear channel-discover components.ez.no
pear channel-discover pear.symfony-project.com
pear channel-discover pear.phpunit.de
 
pear install --alldeps phpunit/PHPUnit

3. Use it

XAMPP and/or PHPUnit come with a wrapper called phpunit.bat, which has now been upgraded, but you may need to set your PHPBIN environment var. Also I already have c:\xampp\php in my $PATH.

export PHPBIN=c:/xampp/php/php.exe
 
cd /path/to/mysf2project
phpunit.bat -c app

Now PHPUnit works. Make tests and make them work!

Sorting

Not immediately obvious, however, was how to sort them. This did the trick for my case (I have a Sequence field manually re-calculable through a jQueryUI sortable widget. Also note the cool inline anonymous function syntax available since PHP 5.3. Incidentally, I’m not sure the terms lambda or closure are helpful because they’re not quite like Lisp lambdas or JavaScript closures.

// Re-sort them by Sequence, numerically
$this->collSegments->uasort(function($a, $b) {
    return $a->getSequence() - $b->getSequence();
});

// Re-sort them as strings, case-insensitively.
$this->collSegments->uasort(function($a, $b) {
    return strnatcasecmp($a->__toString(), $b->__toString();
});

Deleting

Thanks to the PropelArrayCollection API Documentation

  /*
   * Remove the provided Segment object.
   *
   * @param Segment $s
   * @return Segment $s that was deleted.
   */
  public function deleteSegment(Segment $s) {
      $s->delete();
      $key = $this->collSegments->search($s);
      $ret = $this->collSegments->remove($key);
      return $s;
  }

So elsewhere,

	      $this->deleteSegment($s);

On my Snow Leopard machine this kept happening.

• The “open” indicator (glowing silver ball under the app icon) in the Dock was flaky, only showing for a few apps though more were running.
• The task switcher (which you see when you option-tab/alt-tab) didn’t show all running apps. That RUINS it for me. I always use option-tab.
• I hate rebooting.

Workaround–Restart the Dock process.

Open Terminal† and use one command:

killall -HUP Dock

Don’t be afraid of “killall”. HUP means “Hang Up” and is the normal way of telling something to relaunch.

Thanks to AcmeTech’s old post.

† Terminal is located in the Utilities folder in the Applications folder. Or the quick Spotlight way is command-space, Terminal.

I’ve got Gnu Emacs 23.3 for Windows installed in c:/emacs, and a fairly recent install of Cygwin on Windows 7.

Saved this script in ~/cygemacs.sh

#!/usr/bin/bash
c:/emacs/bin/emacsclientw.exe -n -a "c:/emacs/bin/runemacs.exe" `cygpath -wa $@`

Then in my ~/.bashrc:

alias ec="~/cygemacs.sh"

Now I can be all like,

$ ec ~/.minttyrc

And it opens a new frame in my running Emacs (I have (server-start) in my ~/.emacs), or starts Emacs and opens the file if Emacs isn’t running yet.

See also: EmasClient at EmacsWiki.

Bonus tips

Yes I’m still using Subversion but also gitting going with Git.

And courtesy of The Lumber Room, in ~/.bashrc and others:

    export SVN_EDITOR='c:/emacs/bin/emacsclientw.exe -a c:/emacs/bin/runemacs.exe '

And silence that annoying “kill client buffer z0mgbbq?!?” warning:

  (remove-hook 'kill-buffer-query-functions 'server-kill-buffer-query-function)

I’m updating an old Symfony project to use Symfony 1.3/1.4 and Propel 1.5 through François Zaninotto’s sfPropel15Plugin.

Problem:

I followed the README, right? But…

$ ./symfony propel:build --forms
>> schema    converting "C:/web/myproject/config/schema.yml" to XML
>> schema    putting C:/web/myproject/config/generated-schema.xml
>> propel    Running "om" phing task
>> file-     C:/web/myproject/config/generated-schema.xml
>> autoload  Resetting application autoloaders
>> autoload  Resetting CLI autoloader
>> propel    generating form classes
PHP Warning:  call_user_func() expects parameter 1 to be a valid callback, class 'FooPeer' does not have a method 'getUniqueColumnNames' in C:\web\myproject\plugins\sfPropel15Plugin\lib\generator\sfPropelFormGenerator.class.php on line 485
PHP Stack trace:
PHP   1. {main}() C:\web\myproject\symfony:0
PHP   2. include() C:\web\myproject\symfony:14
PHP   3. sfSymfonyCommandApplication->run() C:\symfony1.3\lib\command\cli.php:20
PHP   4. sfTask->runFromCLI() C:\symfony1.3\lib\command\sfSymfonyCommandApplication.class.php:76
PHP   5. sfBaseTask->doRun() C:\symfony1.3\lib\task\sfTask.class.php:97
PHP   6. sfPropelBuildTask->execute() C:\symfony1.3\lib\task\sfBaseTask.class.php:68
PHP   7. sfTask->run() C:\web\myproject\plugins\sfPropel15Plugin\lib\task\sfPropelBuildTask.class.php:135
PHP   8. sfBaseTask->doRun() C:\symfony1.3\lib\task\sfTask.class.php:173
PHP   9. sfPropelBuildFormsTask->execute() C:\symfony1.3\lib\task\sfBaseTask.class.php:68
PHP  10. sfGeneratorManager->generate() C:\web\myproject\plugins\sfPropel15Plugin\lib\task\sfPropelBuildFormsTask.class.php:72
PHP  11. sfPropelFormGenerator->generate() C:\symfony1.3\lib\generator\sfGeneratorManager.class.php:126
PHP  12. sfGenerator->evalTemplate() C:\web\myproject\plugins\sfPropel15Plugin\lib\generator\sfPropelFormGenerator.class.php:106
PHP  13. require() C:\symfony1.3\lib\generator\sfGenerator.class.php:84
PHP  14. sfPropelFormGenerator->getUniqueColumnNames() C:\web\myproject\plugins\sfPropel15Plugin\data\generator\sfPropelForm\default\template\sfPropelFormGeneratedTemplate.php:34
PHP  15. call_user_func() C:\web\myproject\plugins\sfPropel15Plugin\lib\generator\sfPropelFormGenerator.class.php:485
... etc ...

Solution

I removed too much of the default config in propel.ini..

Make sure this original line is still intact in propel.ini, even though you’ve removed/commented out all the propel.behavior lines that point to the old sfPropelPlugin:

propel.behavior.default                        = symfony,symfony_i18n

function parseISO8601Date(s){
 
  // parenthese matches:
  // year month day    hours minutes seconds  
  // dotmilliseconds 
  // tzstring plusminus hours minutes
  var re = /(\d{4})-(\d\d)-(\d\d)T(\d\d):(\d\d):(\d\d)(\.\d+)?(Z|([+-])(\d\d):(\d\d))/;
 
  var d = [];
  d = s.match(re);
 
  // "2010-12-07T11:00:00.000-09:00" parses to:
  //  ["2010-12-07T11:00:00.000-09:00", "2010", "12", "07", "11",
  //     "00", "00", ".000", "-09:00", "-", "09", "00"]
  // "2010-12-07T11:00:00.000Z" parses to:
  //  ["2010-12-07T11:00:00.000Z",      "2010", "12", "07", "11", 
  //     "00", "00", ".000", "Z", undefined, undefined, undefined]
 
  if (! d) {
    throw "Couldn't parse ISO 8601 date string '" + s + "'";
  }
 
  // parse strings, leading zeros into proper ints
  var a = [1,2,3,4,5,6,10,11];
  for (var i in a) {
    d[a[i]] = parseInt(d[a[i]], 10);
  }
  d[7] = parseFloat(d[7]);
 
  // Date.UTC(year, month[, date[, hrs[, min[, sec[, ms]]]]])
  // note that month is 0-11, not 1-12
  // see https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Date/UTC
  var ms = Date.UTC(d[1], d[2] - 1, d[3], d[4], d[5], d[6]);
 
  // if there are milliseconds, add them
  if (d[7] > 0) {  
    ms += Math.round(d[7] * 1000);
  }
 
  // if there's a timezone, calculate it
  if (d[8] != "Z" && d[10]) {
    var offset = d[10] * 60 * 60 * 1000;
    if (d[11]) {
      offset += d[11] * 60 * 1000;
    }
    if (d[9] == "-") {
      ms -= offset;
    }
    else {
      ms += offset;
    }
  }
 
  return new Date(ms);
};

A friendly user named Raynos in the new StackOverflow JavaScript chat room helped me with the 0-based month gotcha. Thanks again, Raynos!

Also, the author of Anentropic tipped me off to this effort to promote good-quality JavaScript documentation, like the Mozilla Javascript Reference and Javascript Guide, which are still definitive after all these years. Googling for javascript stuff usually gets you spam sites with lots of ads and less-than-stellar docs. W3schools, I love you, but seriously.

So listen, Google:

After several days rebuilding everything the way I like it, my machine turned up as the frequentest flyer in the firewall deny logs again! It turns out that Windows 7 has some better tools that made it easier to find what was going on.

First, I wrote a new Windows Firewall rule to block all outbound traffic to ports 80 and 443. Easy enough. My network admin was off my back!

But I wanted to find out what was causing the trouble. I found a Microsoft TechNet article that showed me how to Enable IPsec and Windows Firewall Audit Events.

I had trouble isolating the events in the snazzy new Vista/Win7 Event Viewer but finally came up with this manual XPath query after some googling and trial and error. It shows requests to port 80 which are blocked by the firewall, filtering out inbound requests so only the outbound traffic shows up:

<QueryList>
  <Query Id="0" Path="Security">
    <Select Path="Security">
       *[System[(EventID=5157)]] 
       and *[EventData[Data[@Name="DestPort"] = "80"]]
    </Select>
    <Suppress Path="Security">
       *[EventData[Data[@Name="Direction"] = "%%14592"]]
    </Suppress>
  </Query>
</QueryList>

I feel obligated to point out that grepping a text file would have been much easier.

Also make sure to turn auditing off again when you’re all done.

My problem now, it turns out, was that the Weby plugin in Launchy was scanning all the built-in Firefox and IE bookmarks every 10 minutes. Maybe it hits each bookmark and scrapes the <title> tag contents to make it launchable? Whatever. I disabled the Weby plugin and the requests ceased. Launchy also has proxy settings, but they won’t work here because there aren’t any NTLM authentication options.

I’m not entirely sure my first problem was the same… it might have been malware after all. But at least this time I know what was going on and don’t have to rebuild everything.

Old retiring IIS 5.0 web server has been accepting URLs containing plus (+) for spaces instead of %20 for like 74 years. People have the old URLs bookmarked and stuff so they’ll keep going to them. The content will still exist on the replacement IIS 7 web server. Wouldn’t it be nice to make it transparent?

(Not to mention “foo+bar.pdf” is sane, but “foo%20bar.pdf” reads “foo percent twenty bar”, awkwardly. )

The problem is that IIS7 by default considers naked plusses in the URL as scary and sends a 404.11, URL_DOUBLE_ESCAPED error. Even if you convince it the URL is OK, it no longer maps plus to space and finds a piece of content.

On the old IIS 5.0 server these URLs both work, serving up the document named “foo bar.pdf”:

http://server/foo+bar.pdf

http://server/foo%20bar.pdf

On the new IIS 7 (Windows 2008) server, the second URL works but the first one gives an error.

Solution:

I put this in my application’s web.config file:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>
  <system.webServer>
    <security>
      <requestFiltering allowDoubleEscaping="True" />
    </security>
    <rewrite>
      <rules>
        <rule name="RewriteUserFriendlyURL1" stopProcessing="false">
          <match url="\+" />
          <conditions>
            <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" negate="true" />
            <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsDirectory" negate="true" />
          </conditions>
          <action type="Rewrite" url="{UrlDecode:{REQUEST_URI}}" />
        </rule>
      </rules>
    </rewrite>
  </system.webServer>
</configuration>

the allowDoubleEscaping directive on line 5 solves the first part of the problem, allowing IIS to handle unescaped plusses. The rewrite rule below passes the requested URI through the UrlDecode function (line 15), which thankfully still remembers the time-tested convention of plus equaling space. Now both forms of the URL work.

(I didn’t really write the rewrite stanza, I just stumbled around with the rewrite URL editor in the IIS Manager until it worked)

Yay!

This week I used the sfDoctrineActAsTaggablePlugin to add tag behavior to a Symfony project. My goal was to have a user interface similar to WordPress’s, which I like a lot:

Another goal was to use JQuery UI with the nice visual theme I built with their Theme Roller tool (which I had already installed and added to my symfony project).

The documentation was a little bit sparse and I’ll probably end up doing this again, so here are relevant instructions so Future Me and others may also benefit:

Set up

1. get/install/checkout sfDoctrineActAsTaggablePlugin. I use this line in the `svn:externals` property on plugins/:

   sfDoctrineActAsTaggablePlugin/ http://svn.symfony-project.com/plugins/sfDoctrineActAsTaggablePlugin/tags/RELEASE_1_0_0

2. enable the plugin in config/ProjectConfiguration.class.php.

       $this->enablePlugins(
                            'sfDoctrinePlugin', 
                            ...
   			 'sfDoctrineActAsTaggablePlugin'
   			 );

3. Add the Taggable behavior to your model(s) in config/doctrine/schema.yml

       actAs:            { Timestampable: ~ , Taggable: ~ }

   (not templates: [Taggable] as the README says)
4. Rebuild your model and forms and everything. My favorite way is to dump the old data to fixtures, then rebuild everything.

   ./symfony --color doctrine:data-dump
   ./symfony --color doctrine:build --all --and-load --no-confirmation

At this point you should have new database tables tag and tagging, and the proper model relations and everything.

Form fields for tags

UI for entering tags, displaying existing tags (with remove buttons)

I’m going to have

1. a single text input field for adding tags,
2. a link to display a tag cloud (see below) if the user wants to pick tags by clicking instead of typing
3. a styled list of existing tags with delete icons
4. a hidden field for storing tags to be removed after clicking on the delete icons.

The delete icons will trigger a Javascript function which populates the hidden field and hides the tag. Changes won’t be saved until the user submits the form, so we’ll also provide a little reminder.

1. add the tag field(s) to the configure() method of your form, in lib/form/doctrine/ModelForm.class.php.

       // this text appears in gray until the user focuses on the field
       $default = 'Add tags with commas';
       $this->widgetSchema['new_tags'] = new sfWidgetFormInput
         (
          array('label'   =>  'Add Tags', 'default'   =>  $default),
          array(
                'onclick' => "if (this.value=='$default') { 
                                   this.value = ''; this.style.color='black'; }", 
                'size'   =>  '32',
   	     'id' => 'new_tags', 
                // don't let the browser autocomplete.  We'll add typeahead, below
   	     'autocomplete' => "off",      
   	     'style' => 'color:#aaa'
   	     )
          );
       // allow the field to remain blank
       $this->setValidator('new_tags', new sfValidatorString(array('required' => false)));
    
       // this hidden field will be populated with JavaScript.
       $this->widgetSchema['remove_tags'] = new sfWidgetFormInputHidden();
       $this->setValidator('remove_tags', new sfValidatorString(array('required' => false)));

2. Add a partial with the admin generator. In apps/frontend/modules/mymodule/config/generator.yml:

         form:
           display:
             # add another section after the other fields...
             Tags: [_tags]

3. edit the partial, apps/frontend/modules/mymodule/templates/_tags.php

   <?php use_helper('JavascriptBase', 'Tags')  ?>
   <?php  
    
   // much of this I copied and adapted from a cached admin generator template.
   $name = 'new_tags'; $label = ''; $help = ''; 
   $class = 'sf_admin_form_row sf_admin_text sf_admin_form_field_tags';
    
    ?>
    
     <div class="<?php echo $class ?><?php $form[$name]->hasError() and print ' errors' ?>">
       <?php echo $form[$name]->renderError() ?>
       <div>
         <?php echo $form[$name]->renderLabel($label) ?>
    
         <div class="content"><?php echo $form[$name]->render($attributes instanceof sfOutputEscaper ? $attributes->getRawValue() : $attributes) ?>
    
    
   <?php // tag cloud will go here, see below ?>
    
    
   </div>
    
         <?php if ($help): ?>
           <div class="help"><?php echo __($help, array(), 'messages') ?></div>
         <?php elseif ($help = $form[$name]->renderHelp()): ?>
           <div class="help"><?php echo $help ?></div>
         <?php endif; ?>
       </div>
     </div>
    
   <?php // list of current tags, with remove buttons ?>
   <div class="sf_admin_form_row sf_admin_text sf_admin_form_field_tags">
   <div>
   <label>Current tags</label>
   <div class="content">
   <div class="taglist">   
      <?php foreach ( $form->getObject()->getTags() as $t):   ?>
       <span><nobr><?php 
    
   echo link_to_function("Remove '$t'", 
              "remove_tag(".json_encode($t).", this.parentElement)", 
              "class=removetag")
    
     ?>&nbsp;<?php echo $t  ?></nobr></span>
       <?php endforeach;  ?>
   </div>
   <span id="remove_tag_help" style="display:none;">Tag(s) removed. Remember to save the complaint.</span>
   </div>
   </div>
    
   </div>

4. Add a Javascript function to support the “remove tag” buttons.

   $(function() {
               // add fancy jQuery UI button styles.  See additional in "CSS" below
   	    $(".taglist a").button({icons:{primary:'ui-icon-trash'}, text: false});
   });
    
   function remove_tag (tag, element) {
     remove_field = $("#complaint_remove_tags");
     if ( remove_field.val().length ) {
       remove_field.val( remove_field.val()  + "," + tag );
     }
     else {
       remove_field.val( tag );
     }
     $(element).hide();
     $("#remove_tag_help").show();
   }

5. edit the `processForm` action to process the `new_tags` and `remove_tags` fields. I started by copying the `processForm` method from cache/frontend/dev/modules/autoMymodel/actions/actions.class.php into apps/frontend/modules/mymodule/actions/actions.class.php, then added code after validation:

     protected function processForm(sfWebRequest $request, sfForm $form)
     {
       $form->bind($request->getParameter($form->getName()), $request->getFiles($form->getName()));
    
       if ($form->isValid())
       {
         $notice = $form->getObject()->isNew() ? 'The item was created successfully.' : 'The item was updated successfully.';
    
         // NEW: deal with tags
         if ($form->getValue('remove_tags')) {
   	foreach (preg_split('/\s*,\s*/', $form->getValue('remove_tags')) as $tag) {
   	  $form->getObject()->removeTag($tag);
   	}
         }
         if ($form->getValue('new_tags')) {
   	foreach (preg_split('/\s*,\s*/', $form->getValue('new_tags')) as $tag) {
             // sorry, it would be better to not hard-code this string
   	  if ($tag == 'Add tags with commas') continue;
   	  $form->getObject()->addTag($tag);
   	}
         }
    
         try {
           $complaint = $form->save();
           // and the remainder is just pasted from the generated actions file

Yay! Now I can add, display, and remove tags. Now for the fancy parts.

Typeahead tag autocompletion

As detailed in the README, sfDoctrineActAsTaggablePlugin has typeahead support. I tried it, but I didn’t feel like the user interaction was quite smooth enough, and I wanted to use the excellent, beautiful, and user-expectation-meeting jQuery UI Autocomplete widget.

I ended up using the action provided by sfDoctrineActAsTaggablePlugin, but modified the view to return JSON instead of an HTML <ul>, and I used the multiple, remote demo code from the jQuery UI Autocomplete documentation.

1. override the completeSuccess view for the taggableComplete/complete action

   mkdir -p apps/frontend/modules/taggableComplete/templates
   touch apps/frontend/modules/taggableComplete/templates/completeSuccess.php

   And here is my new template:

   <?php
    
   // we're rewriting the view for the taggable plugin to output JSON instead of HTML
   // see http://wiki.jqueryui.com/Autocomplete
    
   $tags_simple = array();
   foreach ( $tagSuggestions as $suggestion ) {
     $tags_simple[] =  $suggestion['suggested'];
   }
    
   echo json_encode($tags_simple);

   You can test your autocomplete action with a URL like http://myserver/myproject/taggableComplete/complete/current/p. In my case (because I have some data in my tag table) it returns this JSON-formatted array:

   ["PHP","plugins"]

2. Add jQuery UI javascript. I used a <script> section in my _tags.php partial, but you could also use an external javascript file (but mind the line of PHP code using the url_for() helper).

   	$(function() {
    
   // for debug info, uncomment these lines and add a <div id="autocomplete_log">
   // 		function log(message) {
   // 			$("<div/>").text(message).prependTo("#autocomplete_log");
   // 			$("#autocomplete_log").attr("scrollTop", 0);
   // 		}
   		function split(val) {
   			return val.split(/\s*,\s*/);
   		}
   		function extractLast(term) {
   		        last = split(term).pop();
   // 			log ( "extracted last = "+last );
   			return last;
   		}
    
    
   		$("#new_tags").autocomplete({
    
   			source: function(request, response) {
   		      $.getJSON(<?php echo json_encode(url_for("taggableComplete/complete")) ?>, {
   					current: extractLast(request.term)
   				}, response);
   			},
   			search: function() {
   				// custom minLength
   				var term = extractLast(this.value);
   				if (term.length < 1) {
   					return false;
   				}
   			},
   		        focus: function(event, ui) {
   				// prevent value inserted on focus
   				return false;
   			},
   			select: function(event, ui) {
   				var terms = split( this.value );
   				// remove the current input
   				terms.pop();
   				// add the selected item
   				terms.push( ui.item.value );
   				// add placeholder to get the comma-and-space at the end
   				terms.push("");
   				this.value = terms.join(", ");
   				return false;
   			}
    
   		});
   	});

tag cloud

I like how WordPress has an option for picking tags from a tag cloud too. The sfDoctrineActAsTaggablePlugin made this nice and easy.

1. Here’s the code for the view (in the _tags.php partial)

   <?php echo link_to_function("Choose from the most used tags &gt;&gt;", '$("#add_tag_from_cloud").show(); $(this).hide()' ) ?>
    
   <div id="add_tag_from_cloud" class="tag_cloud popular" style="display:none">
   <h3>Popular tags</h3>
   <?php 
   // gets the popular tags
   $tags = PluginTagTable::getPopulars();
    
   // Display the tags cloud, using link_to_function() instead of link_to()
   // The %s in the second arg will be substituted with the tag text.
   echo tag_cloud($tags, 'add_tag("%s")', array(
   				'link_function'   =>  'link_to_function',  
   				'link_options'   =>  array('class=addtag')
   					     )
   	       );
    
     ?>
   </div>

2. And here’s the javascript to handle those links.

   function add_tag (tag) {
     add_field = $("#new_tags");
    
     if ( add_field.val() == "Add tags with commas" ) {
       add_field.val( tag );
       add_field.css("color", "black");
     }
     else if ( add_field.val().length ) {
       add_field.val( add_field.val()  + ", " + tag );
     }
     else {
       add_field.val( tag );
     }
     $(element).hide();
   }

CSS

I made lots of incremental changes to my CSS but here are all of the sections relevant to the tag stuff I’ve shown here, I think.

 
.taglist .removetag {
   vertical-align: middle;
   width: 18px;
   height: 18px;
}
 
.taglist span {
   margin-right: 1.4em;
}
 
.tag_cloud li {
   display: inline;
   list-style: none;
}
 
#sf_admin_container .tag_cloud li a {
   background: transparent;
   padding-left: 0px;
}

And I had this in my apps/frontend/templates/layout.php to apply JQuery UI button styling to all my form buttons and hyperlinks with the “button” CSS class:

<script type="text/javascript">
// use JQueryUI buttons
      $(function() {
       $("input:submit,  button, a.button").button();
      });
</script>

Yay! I’m pretty happy with it so far. I hacked at it for a couple days though and have been cloudy with fighting a cold, so if I’ve missed anything let me know. I think this is enough to get me there more quickly the next time.

Salient errors:

String.cpp: In member function ‘off_t String::toOffset()’:
String.cpp:167: warning: format ‘%d’ expects type ‘int*’, but argument 3 has type ‘off_t*’
In file included from HTTPHeader.hpp:38,
                 from DownloadManager.hpp:30,
                 from OptionContainer.hpp:27,
                 from ConnectionHandler.hpp:27,
                 from ConnectionHandler.cpp:25:
RegExp.hpp:31:23: error: pcreposix.h: No such file or directory
In file included from HTTPHeader.hpp:38,
                 from DownloadManager.hpp:30,
                 from OptionContainer.hpp:27,
                 from ConnectionHandler.hpp:27,
                 from ConnectionHandler.cpp:25:
RegExp.hpp:82: error: ‘regex_t’ does not name a type
make[2]: *** [dansguardian-ConnectionHandler.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
mv -f .deps/dansguardian-String.Tpo .deps/dansguardian-String.Po
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make: *** [all] Error 2

And a wild goose chase: don’t alter your PCRE_LIBS environment variable or you’ll have trouble like this:

ld: in /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.5.sdk/usr/include/php/ext/pcre/pcrelib, can't map file, errno=22

What worked:

 
# this is the main thing-- help it find pcreposix.h !
export CPPFLAGS=-I/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.5.sdk/usr/include/php/ext/pcre/pcrelib
 
# only the last two are my preferences, 
# the others are from the INSTALL doc
 
./configure --localstatedir=/var  \
         --mandir=/usr/share/man/  \
         --bindir=/usr/local/sbin/ \
         --with-logdir=/usr/local/dansguardian/logs/ \
         --enable-email=yes
 
make -j 2
sudo make install

starting at boot with daemonic

I got squid using Fink, which uses daemonic for startup/init scripts. So hopefully I can use it to start dansguardian at boot too.

I copied the squid XML file and made this one at /sw/etc/daemons/dansguardian.xml:

<service>
<description>Dan's Guardian</description>
<message>Dan's Guardian content filter</message>
 
<daemon name="dansguardian">
<executable checkexit="true">/usr/local/sbin/dansguardian</executable>
<configfile>/usr/local/etc/dansguardian/dansguardian.conf</configfile>
<pidfile>/var/run/dansguardian.pid</pidfile>
</daemon>
 
</service>

Now all I have to do is:

$ sudo daemonic enable dansguardian

Looks like it built some nice OS-X-y startup scripts for me in /Library/StartupItems/daemonic-dansguardian. Here goes rebooting…