On the Xebee blog there's a recent post looking at test-driven development with the Zend Framework and PHPUnit. They show how they work well together and make it simpler to use TTD to create and test your applications. […]

Recently a contribution was made to combine Ingres with PHP to help users get started developing PHP applications. The project is called EasyIngres and was created by Cedric Pasquotti, a PHP developer based in France . […]

The 1st Russian Zend Framework Conference (ZFConf 2010) will take place in Saint-Petersburg, Russia at the end of March. An initial list of topics has been decided and the conference is open for registration. […]

Zend and Acquia have jointly released a new white paper entitled: Optimizing Drupal Performance – Benchmark Results. This paper presents the results of performance benchmarks for comparing several common PHP runtime environments and configurations. The application used for benchmarking is Drupal, the open source social publishing platform. Tested runtime environments included plain PHP, Zend Server (www.zend.com/products/server), and open-source optimizers, such as APC and WinCache. […]

Full design control usually means large, thousand plus line CSS files that equal serious pain when it comes to maintenance or building upon. If you don't namespace your selectors carefully you'll end up paying for it down the road. And heaven forbid you apply a default HTML tag styling. So, ranting aside, how do you maintain flexibility and still keep tidy CSS and JavaScript? My solution is to keep the very same directory/file structure that is used for the application for my CSS and JavaScript. The best part is by writing a very simple view helper, it's super easy to automate the proper head link and script file inclusions. […]

Like most people with a digital camera, I tend to be a heavy Flickr user. Not only does Flickr make it easy to share my ever-growing photo collection with colleagues and family, but its drag-and-drop photo organizer and geo-tagging features make it easy to quickly categorize and find pictures from, say, my 2003 holiday in Goa. The really good stuff, though, is hidden behind the scenes. Like many Web 2.0 applications, Flickr exposes its data to the public via a REST API, making it possible to develop customized applications that run on top of the base service. This REST API allows access to a number of important functions, including photo searching, tagging and uploading; photoset retrieval; contact retrieval; and panda recommendations. It’s also pretty easy to integrate this REST API into a PHP application – and this article will show you how! […]

On the Web Developer Juice blog there's a new post that'll walk you through the installation and integration of the Apache ActiveMQ messaging service and how to integrate it with your application. […]

What technology will you be using for developing your next Rich Internet Application? Tasked with building a software flight recorder for Zend Server 5.0 (the new release of its popular PHP web application server), Zend chose Adobe Flex. Join this webinar by Adobe and Zend to learn what made The PHP Company opt for Flex, see a live demo, and hear lessons learned from one PHP/Flex development project. You’ll find out how Flex and PHP can be used together to enhance your application. […]

Ryan Mauger has a new post today looking at how to combine the Tidy extension for PHP and Firebug with a Zend Framework application to keep your HTML neat and valid with a handy bit of feedback for debugging. […]

Rob James has a new post looking at configuring Apache to run Tomcat and PHP together so you can have both Java and PHP apps running through the same Apache frontend. […]