Zend Technologies Updates Zend Core with Enhanced PHP Support for Windows, Zend Framework, and Universal Database Support
by Cal Evans (editor) |
2 comments | Tuesday, March 6, 2007
Zend Technologies, the PHP company, today announced a new version of Zend Core. Zend Core 2.0 is based on PHP 5.2.1 and complements PHP with enhancements to improve development, deepen database support, enhance Windows integration and provide enterprise-class support. Zend Core is available for free.
What the Web's Most Popular Sites Are Running On
by Cal Evans (editor) |
2 comments | Friday, March 2, 2007
Royal Pingdom recently published an article titled “What the Web’s most popular sites are running on” evaluating seven”supersites” – TechCrunch, FeedBurner, iStockPhoto, YouSendIt, Meebo, Vimeo and Alexaholic – on the web and the technologies that back them.
30 Minutes with Chris Hartjes
by Cal Evans (editor) |
0 comments | Friday, February 16, 2007
Last year at php|works in Toronto, I had the pleasure of sitting down with Chris Hartjes, who was presenting his “What PHP Can Learn From Rails” talk. We spent some time just talking about PHP and programming. Click on inside, I’ll give you the whole interview.
Ajax Chat Tutorial
by maugrim |
3 comments | Monday, January 15, 2007
Creating a chat application is not a difficult task. Honest! This tutorial is a step by step introduction to creating a lightweight chat application using XML as a storage medium. As personal motivation, I develop PHP games as a hobby. In pursuit of that hobby I’ve found that offering a flat threadless forum in such games tends to result in heavy usage as players attempt to use it as a chat room. The reason is that even with the advent of irc and instant messengers, users continue see an alternative web based solution as attractive for a number of reasons whether its limited access to instant messengers through a corporate proxy or simply for convenience sake.
AJAX Chat Tutorial Part 7 : Usability Improvements
by maugrim |
2 comments | Monday, January 15, 2007
The final part of our 7 part tutorial on creating an ajax chat system using MySQL and the Zend Framework.
Tutorial : Using Zend Framework Without PDO
by david_coallier |
12 comments | Friday, January 12, 2007
This is a very quick tutorial on how to allow developers to develop using the Zend Framework without having to or being able to install PDO on their servers.
Top 5 new (and cool!) features in PHP5 that you probably haven't heard of.
by Cal Evans (editor) |
0 comments | Friday, January 5, 2007
PHP5 gave us many new features. Because of its big syntax changes however, a large percentage of the PHP developer base has not made the change. Over at vexxhost.com they have posted a blog entry on what they feel to be the top 5 features of PHP 5. Click on in and I’ll give you the scoop.
Book Review : PHP and MySQL by Example.
by Cal Evans (editor) |
0 comments | Friday, January 5, 2007
No matter how you value you programming books, content, weight or the fact that it has a CD-ROM, this is a book that will measure up. Click on inside and let’s talk, shall we?
PHP and MySQL By Example - Sample Chapter
by Cal Evans (editor) |
1 comment | Tuesday, January 2, 2007
Prentice Hall recently released “PHP and MySQL by Example”, written by Ellie Quigley. They are so proud of this title that they sent us over the sample chapter, “Regular Expressions and Pattern Matching” to share with you. Click on inside, I’ll share.
AJAX Chat Tutorial Part 5: The Javascript, Sending Chat Messages, Screen Name Changes
by maugrim |
5 comments | Tuesday, December 26, 2006
Part 5 of our 7 part tutorial on creating an Ajax based Chat application.
