Zend Framework

Creating Web Page Templates with PHP and Twig (part 2)

Vikram Vaswani | 6 comments | Monday, May 2, 2011

This second and concluding segment of our tutorial on Twig templating discusses more advanced templating options, including goodies like template inheritance, custom filters, caching and Zend Framework integration. It also tells you a little more about what goes on under Twig's hood, and shows you how to add more power and flexibility to your PHP and Twig templates. […]

Intermediate Template Engine Tutorials

Creating Web Page Templates with PHP and Twig (part 1)

Vikram Vaswani | 2 comments | Wednesday, April 6, 2011

There’s no shortage of PHP template engines and they’re all very similar, often differing only in implementation details and support for specific features. They all serve the same purpose: that of functionally separating a Web application’s user interface from its business logic, and thereby enabling developers and interface designers to work on the same application without getting in each other’s hair. […]

Intermediate Tutorials

Using the Plurk API with PHP

Vikram Vaswani | 1 comment | Thursday, March 24, 2011

Plurk is a popular micro-blogging site that allows users to quickly and concisely post status updates, news and event streams. It also comes with a JSON-based Web service API that allows developers to programmatically add, search and manipulate Plurk content. This article shows you how to quickly and efficiently connect your PHP application to Plurk using Plurk's PHP library. […]

Creating Multi-Language Web Applications with Zend_Translate

Vikram Vaswani | 4 comments | Wednesday, February 9, 2011

If you're a Web developer building an application for global consumption, it's important to build in a framework for localization right from the start. This article will introduce you to Zend_Translate, and demonstrate how you can use it to add multi-language support to your PHP application. […]

Using the Stack Exchange API with PHP (part 2)

Vikram Vaswani | 0 comments | Wednesday, January 19, 2011

This concluding segment of our two-part article on integrating PHP applications with the Stack Exchange Web service API discusses API methods related to user profiles, user tags and badges, and user activity timelines. It also looks at ways in which you can improve the performance of your PHP application, using built-in caching and easy integration with pagination widgets. […]

Using the Stack Exchange API with PHP (part 1)

Vikram Vaswani | 1 comment | Thursday, December 30, 2010

The collaborative Q&A site Stack Overflow is a great place for geeks to hang out, answer questions and earn reputation. But there's an additional bonus: the site also exposes a Web service API that allows developers to build mashups on top of the base service. This two-part article will give you a crash course in the Stack Overflow API, illustrating how easy it is to retrieve and search site content from within your PHP application. […]

API Intermediate PEAR Tutorials Web Services

Using the Digg API with PHP and PEAR

Vikram Vaswani | 1 comment | Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Digg offers a Web service API that makes possible to develop customized applications on top of the base service. This API, currently in its second incarnation, allows access to a number of important Digg functions, including searching and commenting on Digg stories. This article takes a fast look at how to integrate Digg's Web service with a PHP application using the PEAR Services_Digg2 class. […]

APC Intermediate Tutorials

Using APC with PHP

Vikram Vaswani | 8 comments | Friday, October 29, 2010

If you've been around PHP for a while, you've probably heard about APC, the Alternative PHP Cache. Adding APC to an application usually results in improved application response times, reduced server load and happier users. This article will introduce you to APC and guide you through the process of integrating it with your PHP application. […]

Tutorials Zend Framework Zend_Config

Manipulating Configuration Data with Zend_Config

Vikram Vaswani | 2 comments | Tuesday, September 28, 2010

When building a Web application, you'll often find it necessary to save and retrieve user-defined configuration values. Rather than rolling your own code, consider using Zend_Config, which offers a complete API to read and write configuration data in INI, XML and PHP array formats. In this article, I'll give you a crash course in how Zend_Config works, and show you how you can integrate it into a PHP application. […]

Intermediate Tutorials Zend Framework Zend_Pdf

Creating PDF Documents with Zend Framework

Vikram Vaswani | 13 comments | Monday, August 30, 2010

PHP comes with a number of options to help developers dynamically generate PDF files from within their applications. The Haru and PDFlib extensions offer a complete API for dynamic PDF generation, and there also exist a number of open-source PHP components that can be used for the same purpose. This article will introduce you to one such component, the Zend_Pdf component that ships as part of the Zend Framework, and illustrate how it can be used to perform sophisticated PDF operations from within a PHP application. […]

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