Categories


Loading feed
Loading feed
Loading feed

U2 PDO Driver parts 1 and 2

IBM’s developerWorks has posted part two of their two-part tutorial on PDO and U2. Click on inside, I’ll give you the URLs and a quick overview.

PHP 5 Power Programming passes 1 Million downloads!

Andi Gutmans posts on his blog that the book “PHP 5 Power Programming” he co-wrote with Stig Bakken and Derick Rethans has surpassed one million downloads.

Marco Tabini's Top 5 List.

Marcus Whitney has posted another thought provoking piece on A/R/T. The article is titled “Five Top PHP Mistakes” and written by php|architect publisher Marco Tabini. It is an Op/Ed piece on what Marco believes are the top 5 missteps that PHP as a language has taken.

Nick Lo Shows How RewriteRouter and Zend_Config play together

Nick Lo has been a busy man of late. First a post for the child in all of us as Mr. Dizzy learns how not to program. Now he shows us how RewriteRouter and Zend_Config play together in applications built on the Zend Framework. Piqued your interest? Click [ more ].

5 Things You Probably Didn't Know About PHP

Greg Szorc has a new entry in his blog where he shows you 4 things and a rant that you may not have know about PHP.

FREE BOOK! "Developing PHP Applications for IBM Data Servers"

Is there anything IBM won’t do for attention? Now they’ve taken to publishing high-quality PHP books for free on their site. Ok, so it’s not your standard light reading fare. It won’t replace re-runs of “Full House” as the most mindless way to pass the time. It is, however a code-packed tome about an interesting subject. Follow me down the rabbit hole for more info. (Click the little link down there that says [ more ])

Don't Fear The Reaper

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.

Oracle + PHP = Cool solution for Clearing an Invalid Cache

Oracle Developers Network has posted a great article on "Improve PHP Performance by Caching Database Results". Give me a page view and I'll tell you more. (Click the little [more] button)

2 Thumbs Up for A/R/T's "Visual Rating System" article.

Marcus, over at php|architect's Article Repository has just released a cool new article titled Writing an AJAX-based Visual Rating System with PHP, written by Marco Tabini. I feel compelled to give it two tumbs up!

Integrating Propel with the Zend Framework

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.