Sometimes It's Not the Post, It's the Conversation.

by Cal Evans (editor) | 5 comments | Sunday, August 13, 2006

Theo Schlossnagle presented “Why PHP Sucks” at OSCON, Chris Shiflett blogged it recently, everybody ponied up an opinion.

Zip-It or DIY Tar-balls.

by Cal Evans (roving reporter) | 0 comments | Tuesday, May 23, 2006

Who hasn’t sat in front of their computer night after night wondering aloud – to only the monitor and the voices in their head – how they are going to build a zip file or tar ball dynamically using nothing more than PHP. I know that if I had actually thought this, it would have kept me up at nights. Thankfully, before it got that far, those wacky code monkeys over at PHPit have come up with a tutorial that walks you through just this very conundrum.

a week in phpworld #6

by Wolfgang Drews | 1 comment | Tuesday, May 16, 2006

Wolfgang Drews wraps up another week of PHP coverage across the global (and the Net)...

Hello, welcome back to another fine wrapup of the last week in phpworld - let's take a look!

a week in phpworld #5

by Wolfgang Drews | 0 comments | Monday, May 8, 2006

Wolfgang Drews wraps up another week of everything PHP with phpworld #5.

Welcome back to this weeks summary of the most interesting php-stuff happened you really should know about.

a week in phpworld #3

by Wolfgang Drews | 2 comments | Sunday, April 23, 2006

Welcome back to the third edition of "a week in phpworld" - my subjective view at the highlights that happened last week in the phpworld. Covering everything from PHP 5.1.3 and PHP 6 through frameworks, conferences, databases and the rest of the PHP community.

A Week in PHPWorld #2

by Wolfgang Drews | 0 comments | Monday, April 17, 2006

Wolfgang Drews moves his “a week in phpworld” series to the Zend Developer Zone summarizing a week of everything PHP.

Thinking about what might be of interest to you readers out there, i came up with the idea to summarize what happend last week in phpworld. it’s quite interesting that there were some summaries of most relevant mailingslists around at zend – and that there is a new weekly summary for the zend framework, but no one ever made a weekly digest of what was relevant in phpworld “the last week”

Enjoy a tour through the global happenings of PHP during this past week.

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.

Performing Remote Procedure Calls With PEAR XML_RPC

by Vikram Vaswani | 0 comments | Monday, January 3, 2005

If you’re familiar with C or C++, you’ve probably already heard of Remote Procedure Calls – they’re the framework by which procedures on a server are remotely executed by other clients on the network. RPCs are interesting, because they make it possible to design services that can be used independently of the client’s operating environment. So long as both client and server understand the RPC protocol, they can communicate with each other to execute commands and process return values.

Using Console_Getopt to Process the PHP Command Line

by Vikram Vaswani | 0 comments | Wednesday, December 22, 2004

The traditional view of PHP is that of a server-side scripting language, embedded in HTML documents and invoked by a Web server. In fact, if you’re new to PHP, you might be forgiven for thinking this is the only view – after all, it’s quite likely that you haven’t yet seen PHP being used in any other context.

Using HTML_Template_IT For Modular Interface Design