Oracle + PHP = Cool solution for Clearing an Invalid Cache
by Cal Evans (editor) |
2 comments | Monday, June 19, 2006
Oracle Developers Network has posted a great article on "Improve PHP Performance by Caching Database Results". Give me a page view and I'll tell you more. (Click the little [more] button)
Google Supports the JIPLFOG Index for Programming Languages
by Jayson Minard (editor) |
2 comments | Wednesday, May 10, 2006
You may remember a previous article of mine where I introduced the JIPLFOG (Jayson’s Index for Programming Languages Found on Google). Now just one month later Google has responded with support for my efforts. Google Trends popped out of the Google hatch yesterday just so that I could publish charts and have a real-time update for JIPLFOG. I can’t thank them enough.
2 Beginners Guides I wish I had had when I started with PHP
by Cal Evans (roving reporter) |
1 comment | Monday, May 8, 2006
I hate repeating myself…I hate repeating myself…I hate repeating myself… So it’s time I learned to write recursive functions. Here’s a link to a tutorial on recursion in PHP as well as one on dynamically created graphics. (Charts)
HTML to PDF via PHP.
by Cal Evans (roving reporter) |
0 comments | Thursday, May 4, 2006
How many times have you been surfing a web site and smacked your forehead because you’d really rather have the page in a PDF than in HTML. Well relief is on the way with this handy new PHP 5 class! Convert HTML to PDF with dompdf.
Dipping a Toe into Rapid Application Development for PHP
by Jayson Minard (editor) |
11 comments | Monday, May 1, 2006
As Andi Gutmans presented at his php|tek keynote, and reinforced by IBM in their showing of QEDWiki, there is indeed a place in PHP for the Rapid Application Development. As part of Andi’s keynote, he spoke about component architectures and showed a quick demo of what that might look like in the future. He did so with a proof of concept called phpBlox. Now, don’t get too excited, it looks nice and worked for the demo, but we are still only at the beginning of the Road to RAD.
Integrating Propel with the Zend Framework
by Ralf Eggert |
15 comments | Tuesday, April 25, 2006
It is very easy to integrate other tools and components into the Zend Framework. I have already shown, how to integrate Smarty as a template engine and the eZ Components to expand the selection of useful components to build your own framework based on the Zend Framework. Since the Zend Framework is currently (Preview Version 0.1.3) lacking an ORM-Layer (Object Relational Mapping), I want to show you how to integrate Propel. Propel allows you to access your database using a set of objects, providing a simple API for storing and querying data. So Propel can easily take over the model part in a MVC system.
Consuming Google Calendars with the Zend Framework
by John Herren (staff) |
5 comments | Tuesday, April 25, 2006
A couple of weeks ago, Google jumped into the online calendar space by launching Google Calendar (um, beta). The application is chock-full of Ajaxy goodness and plenty of features, but I'm here to talk about what you can do with your calendar data behind the scenes. Using some handy tools from the Swiss Army Knife that is the Zend Framework, I'll show you how to pull data from your Google Calendar into your site. Just for kicks, I'll also throw in a caching layer to keep things fast and reduce the network traffic between your server and Google.
PHP Gotchas!
by John Herren (staff) |
13 comments | Friday, April 21, 2006
Call them obscure, call them pointless, call them "newb mistakes." Whatever you call them, you've more than likely been tripped up at some point in your PHP coding journey by seemingly odd or illogical behaviors of the language. With PHP being a loosely-typed language, funny things are bound to happen. PHP is an easy language to pick up for the casual coder--things should "just work." But not everyone comes into PHP development with a strong programming background, so here are some charming examples of ways PHP can trip you up if you aren't careful. Put on your thinking caps--here comes the science!
Integrating Smarty and ez Components with the Zend Framework
by Ralf Eggert |
5 comments | Monday, April 17, 2006
Here is a follow-up to the first part of the little tutorial Integrating Smarty with the Zend Framework. I want to address some of the issues in the comments of the first part and add some further information on how to setup your application to use the Travello_View_Smarty class. Along the way you learn how to integrate classes of the eX Components.
Mail Call!
by Cal Evans (roving reporter) |
4 comments | Tuesday, April 11, 2006
Everybody needs to send mail from their application at one point or another. It’s like using a database or a sledge-hammer, sooner or later, you are going to want to do it. But what’s the best tool? Yesterday I got an email from a friend of mine asking me this question. Since I respect him and his team and they didn’t know the answer, I figure there might be others out there who struggle with this.
