My buddy Julie Miller over at apress has come through for us again. Today you get a double bonus. You get to check out a sample chapter of “Pro PHP, Patterns, Frameworks, Testing and more” by Kevin McArthur. You also get a great tutorial on SPL! […]

Continuing in their tradition of having their finger on the pulse of PHP, apress has recently released their latest title, “The Definitive Guide to symfony”. […]

You know you’ve been waiting for it, here it is. The final installment of Chapter 7 of “PHP in Action” by Dagfinn Reiersol. […]

My buddy Olivia over at Manning Publications sent us part two of their soon to be released title, “PHP in Action”. This one has a short intro by the author, Dagfinn Reiersol. Click on inside, I’ll share. […]

My buddy Olivia over at Manning Publications sent us a present recently. They are working on the title “PHP in Action” and they sent us a chapter to share with you. Click on inside, I’ll share. […]

Robert Richards and Apress have published a definitive tome on PHP and XML. They were kind enough to send over a PDF of a chapter for us to publish here on DevZone. Click [ more] to find out which chapter (Hint, it’s not the Appendix) and to get the link to view it. […]

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. […]

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 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. […]

Since HTTP uses a stateless request-response method to transfer web pages, all but the simplest web applications need a way to store data between requests. The best way to accomplish this in PHP is to use sessions. A session identifier is kept client-side in a cookie, and is matched up with data kept on the server, which is made available in scripts through the $_SESSION superglobal. By default, session data is stored on the filesystem in individual files. This works fine for most people, but when it comes to storing session data, PHP has several options available. This article will discuss some of the built-in options for session storage and also show you how to write your own session handler. […]