Book Review: The Underground PHP and Oracle Manual
by Cal Evans (editor) |
0 comments | Tuesday, July 11, 2006
Released last month by Oracle and trumpeted from Chris Jones’ blog, “The Underground PHP and Oracle Manual” is an excellent guide for anyone looking to work with these two technologies. You want more than that, you’ll have to come inside.
Do You Really Need a Database?
by Cal Evans (editor) |
0 comments | Monday, July 10, 2006
The PHP Blog posted an article a little while ago titled “PHP & MySQL are not Peanut Butter & Jelly”. The gist of the article is that PHP and MySQL are not joined at the hip and that programmers needlessly rely on databases for projects that don’t necessarily require them. Whoops, I may have said to much. To get more, you’ll have to click the [ more ] link.
Zend Framework Data Layer Quickie
by Cal Evans (editor) |
0 comments | Friday, June 23, 2006
Alexander Netkachev is at it a again. This time he’s posted a quick read on the Zend_DB_Table and how to get started with it.
Don't Fear The Reaper
by Cal Evans (editor) |
0 comments | Friday, June 23, 2006
How I do love the web. The web gives us the illusion of anonymity and the freedom to experiment with our inner demons. One such persona of note to the PHP community is Padraic Brady aka “Maugrim The Reaper”. Padraic posts on a variety of topics in his blog but never fails to inform or entertain. Let’s look at two of his recent posts.
Accessing DB2 Data Inside of i5/OS
by Cal Evans (editor) |
0 comments | Thursday, June 22, 2006
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.
Zend Framework Preview Release 0.1.3
by John Herren (staff) |
0 comments | Tuesday, April 18, 2006
Today the Zend Framework team has launched a shiny new website and tagged another minor version release of the framework. Since the last release in early March, the codebase features some module additions and several bug fixes, as well as updated documentation. The latest preview release is available for download from the framework website, or developers can access the Subversion repository directly for bleeding-edge checkouts. To stay on top of important changes in the framework, visit the framework website or follow changes to the NEWS.txt file in the Subversion repository for release notes. Up-to-the-minute commit notifications are also available. To subscribe, simply send an e-mail to fw-svn-subscribe@lists.zend.com. Zend is actively seeking contributions to the framework for various code modules. To get involved, visit the FAQ page on the framework website to learn more about the contribution process and requirements. Those wishing to be involved in the development process are highly encouraged to participate in the framework mailing list, as it is currently the preferred forum for collaboration. Send an e-mail to fw-general-subscribe@lists.zend.com to subscribe to the framework mailing list. Framework documentation translations have begun for French, German, Dutch, Chinese, and Japanese. Bug tracking is still being managed through the mailing list. Alternately, developers can submit bug reports to framework-feedback@zend.com. Full release notes after the jump.
MySQL Users Conference 2006 - April 24-27
by Jayson Minard (editor) |
0 comments | Thursday, March 9, 2006
The MySQL Users Conference is the largest gathering of MySQL developers, users, and DBAs. It is the only event where you will be able to join the core MySQL development team and over 1000 users, open source innovators, and technology partners under one roof.
Taking place April 24th through 27th in Santa Clara, California. More information is available from the MySQL UC 2006 website
SQL Query Caching
by Ori Staub |
6 comments | Wednesday, January 22, 2003
Many sites use a database backend as a data store for the site. Whether the database contains product information, category structure, articles or a guest book, some of the data is likely to be quite static and will greatly benefit from a caching system.
Such a system would cache the results of an SQL query into a file stored on the system and hence improve the response time by avoiding the need to make a database connection, forming the query, executing it and retrieving the results.
On systems where the database does not reside on the same machine as the web server and requires a remote connection (TCP or similar), or where large amounts of data are retrieved from the database, you stand to gain even more in terms of response times and resources used.
Such a system would cache the results of an SQL query into a file stored on the system and hence improve the response time by avoiding the need to make a database connection, forming the query, executing it and retrieving the results.
On systems where the database does not reside on the same machine as the web server and requires a remote connection (TCP or similar), or where large amounts of data are retrieved from the database, you stand to gain even more in terms of response times and resources used.
