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AJAX Chat Tutorial Part 4: IndexController MessageAction() and JSON Encoding

In part 4 of this tutorial we take a look at adding a new MessageAction method to our current Controller. This will expect one piece of information: a new chat message.

AJAX Chat Tutorial Part 6 : Updating the User List

This is part 6 of our 7 part tutorial on how to create an web based chat application using Ajax, MySQL and the Zend Framework.

AJAX Chat Tutorial Part 3:Storage Medium, XML and the Message Process

As our chat application gathers pace we return to the server side of the application. At this point we have setup the Zend Framework with an IndexController class to handle server requests. After the initial loading of our HTML interface, we will expect all further server requests to be issued via AJAX (courtesy of Prototype and the XMLHttpRequest object) on the client side. We’ll see this in Part 5.

AJAX Chat Tutorial Part 2:Prototype, Scriptaculous, Application HTML

In this week’s installment, we setup the HTML and JavaScript for our AJAX Chat application.

AJAX Chat Tutorial Part 1: Introduction, The Zend Framework

This tutorial is a step by step introduction to creating a lightweight chat application using XML as a storage medium.

Sams Publishing: The Phrasebook Collection

Sams publishing has release 4 “Phrasebooks” for developers. They were kind enough to send me copies for review. Come on inside and kick your shoes off. Let’s talk about these 4 books for a while shall we?

Jay Pipes Shows Us: MySQL Connection Management in PHP - How (Not) To Do Things

Earlier this month Jay Pipes posted an great articles on his blog. If you do a lot of hands-on work with PHP and MySQL, if you use WordPress, or if you are just one of those people who like to take things apart; this article is for you.

STORED PROCEDURE PROGRAMMING FOR MYSQL5 - PART 2

I’m not sure how I missed this but a couple of weeks ago, my friend Marcus Whitney over at A/R/T released the second part in a 2 part seriese on writing stored procedures in MySQL5. Let’s take a quick look at it, shall we?

Phalanger, the PHP Language Compiler for .NET Framework, releases v2.0 BETA 2

Over at CodePlex, Microsoft’s “community development website”, they are hosting a project named Phalanger. Phalanger is a PHP compiler for .Net. Click the mighty [ more ] link to get the details.

IBM Shows Five common PHP database problems

IBM DeveloperWorks helps PHP developers “Discover five common database problems that occur in PHP applications—including database schema design, database access, and the business logic code that uses the database—as well as their solutions”.