Importing Paypal transactions into Tally accounting software

We use Paypal to receive payments from customers. We maintain our financial accounts using Tally. Imagine copying over Paypal transactions into a separate accounting software – manually. You are creating all ledger accounts one by one. Ensuring spellings are correct, accounting heads are right and you are not missing any names in between. You’re numb […]

Fixing bad XML, any recommendations?

I am using Text_Diff classes of PHP to generate differences between two XML documents. The output is not always valid XML – tag nesting is not always correct. This happens because my source files are XML and have their own tags. When Text_Diff inserts its own <ins> and <del> tags around the changed text, it […]

Setting up local copy of PHP manual – with smart lookups

If you are a PHP developer, you probably know that you can type “php.net/substr” to look at documentation for the substr() function. This works for many other keywords as well and is a superb feature. It’s just so convenient, I stopped using my local copy of PHP manual. But yesterday, I wanted it offline. I […]

Debugging PHP for the first time in 10 years, and loving it!

I have been writing PHP code for 10 years now and have used a variety of ways to debug my code – except the actual runtime debugging! I have used echo statements and log files to debug and solve problems. I knew there is XDebug and Zend Debugger, but never tried them. Today, I downloaded, […]