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If you are a

• PHP programmer looking to write a script to send changelog email notification when a commit is made to the SVN server
• SVN server admin looking for a script to send changelog email notification when a commit is made

you have come to the right place.

For the impatient, the script is posted at the end of the article.

Before we delve into writing the script, let us summarize the environment.

• We have our SVN project at the path /var/svn/myproject/
• The project name is myproject

Exploring svnlook

You have been writing a lot of PHP code and want to generate statistics about the number of comment and code lines in your application. Maybe you want to generate statistics about some PHP project. You can do it with just one command.

phploc helps you quickly generate numbers about the size of a PHP project.

You can install phploc from the PEAR installer. The PHP PEAR package itself is most likely available from your distribution vendor.

If you are using subversion (SVN) for your source code management you may have come across this situation.

1. You add some files to your working copy
2. You use the command 'svn add ' to add files to the be versioned
3. You commit using the command 'svn commit -m "message"'
4. When other users of your project update their working copy they find some files missing

You forgot to add certain files to the repository. It happens every now and then.

While developing applications creating test data can be a tedious process to the developers. You don't have to do the same things like creating a user for testing over and over again.

Use a data generator. There are numerous tools freely available online that can provide the test data for you.