Lorna Mitchell of PHPWomen interviewed at DPC
by Cal Evans (editor) |
1 comment | Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Lorna Mitchell, Senior Developer at Ibuildings, the senior member of phpwomen.org in Europe, podcaster for PHP Abstract and all around swell person, was recently interviewed at the Dutch PHP Conference. Here’s the interview plus a link to all the DPC videos.
Three Quick Tips To Make Your PHP Understandable
by dom29399 |
15 comments | Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Producing code that clearly conveys a developer’s intent is key to any well written application. That not only applies to PHP, but every programming language. Developers who emphasize the creation of legible code tend to create applications which are easier to both maintain and expand upon. After seven years of programming in PHP I’ve worked on a variety of projects where well organized and legible code were set aside for numerous reasons. Some of those reasons include time constraints, lack of experience, lost enthusiasm, misdirected pre-optimizing, and the list goes on. Today we’ll look at three simple methods which are commonly ignored by developers for some, if not all of the reasons described above.
Zend_Acl and MVC Integration Part I (Basic Use)
by vertigoone |
16 comments | Monday, June 23, 2008
So, what is wrong with Zend_Acl and the current MVC implementation in the Zend Framework? there is nothing wrong, it is just that it gets not too obvious for developers how to achieve an optimal integration between these two important parts of the framework.
Book Review: Object-Oriented Programming with PHP5
by tickster |
0 comments | Monday, June 23, 2008
"Object-Oriented Programming with PHP5" is aimed at beginning or mid-level programmers that want to expand their knowledge of object-oriented features in PHP. Although basic OOP support was present in version 4 of PHP, it wasn't until the introduction of version 5 that they caught up with object-oriented implementations of other popular languages, such as Java or Python. The book does a decent job of covering the main OOP topics in PHP; as well as, touching upon some of the peripheral ones. Hayder devotes whole chapters to such topics as unit testing, design patterns, XML, SPL, and working with databases.
Zend Framework DB Access Webinar
by Cal Evans (editor) |
1 comment | Friday, June 20, 2008
Zend sponsors Webinars every Wednesday covering a wide variety of topics of interest to PHP programmers. If you look over on your left, you’ll see the last five that have been published. If you’ve not had the opportunity to watch one, here is one done a while back by Bill Karwin.
Zend Platform Event Debugging
by Cal Evans (editor) |
0 comments | Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Here’s a screencast put together by Zend to show how easy it is to debug PHP scripts using the Zend Debugger.
Getting Started with OpenID and PHP
by vvaswani |
5 comments | Wednesday, June 4, 2008
According to the official OpenID Web site, OpenID is “a free and easy way to use a single digital identity across the Internet”. Fundamentally, an OpenID is a customized URL, chosen by you as your online identity and registered with an OpenID service provider. Whenever an external site needs to verify your identity for login purposes, you supply this URL instead of your username; the site then contacts your OpenID service provider for authentication.
[SECURITY] HTML Purifier 3.1.0 released
by AmbushCommander |
1 comment | Tuesday, June 3, 2008
HTML Purifier 3.1.0 has been released. This release fixes a security vulnerability, and thus users should upgrade as soon as possible.
Building Websites with Joomla! 1.5
by nyarnon |
0 comments | Tuesday, June 3, 2008
The book is a tutorial guide to Joomla! 1.5 and was already written and published during the development of Joomla! 1.5. This is the final version and it aims for “web developers, designers, webmasters, content editors and marketing professionals” and is suitable for anyone starting out with Joomla! 1.5, for people who upgrade to Joomla 1.5 and for those who just want a good printed guide/manual at hand.
Building Dashboards With PHP and Flex
by Jack Herrington |
0 comments | Monday, June 2, 2008
Let’s face it: Interactive graphs and dashboards have never been easy to put together on the web. Sure, there are graphing libraries out there for PHP, but to get something that looks really good and that a user can play with has been tough. Or at least, it was yesterday. Today, I show how to use a combination of PHP for the back end and Adobe Flex for the front end that will put interactive 3D within your grasp. Right now. Today. Let’s dig in.
