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Ajaxian.com announces two PHP Wrappers for ExtJS

ajaxian.com recently posted an article talking about two PHP wrappers for ExtJS. If you are not familiar with ExtJS or if you’ve been considering dipping your toe in the Ajax ocean but weren’t sure where to start, this is a good post to read.

The ZendCon Sessions Episode 6: Project Management Methods to Maintain IT Standards

Welcome to The ZendCon Sessions. This episode of The ZendCon Sessions was recorded live at ZendCon 2007 in Burlingame, CA. We hope you enjoy today’s session as we listen to Eric David present “Project Management Methods to Maintain IT standards”.

Quentin Zervaas talks about Monitoring File Uploads using Ajax and PHP

We’ve talked about this before, but not recently. Quentin Zervaas has posted a nice tutorial on how to use APC, PHP 5 and prototype.js to build a file upload progress bar.

PHP and RIA

For our presentation on PHP and RIA PowerPoint Slides Stas and I improved the chat application by Padraic Brady, featured in the "Ajax Chat Tutorial" and added a number of capabilities to show more advanced concepts in the Zend Framework.

30 Minutes with Paul Reinheimer

Many of you will recognize the name Paul Reinheimer as the primary instructor for php|architect’s training classes. Others will recognize him as one of the two hosts of the podcast “PRO::PHP Podcast”. Still others know him as the author of “Professional Web APIs with PHP” from Wrox Press, the only book I’ve ever seen to get such a colorful review from Ed Finkler. If you do know Paul, either in person or on-line, then you know that he always has a smile on his face and he is never too busy to help you with a PHP issue. I had the pleasure of sitting down and talking with this young but rising star in the PHP community last year at php|works. Now, after sitting way too long on the shelf, I’ve finally had enough time to finish this interview and present it to you.

Use Ajax with PHP and DB2 9 - Xajax

Over at developerWorks, Deepak Vohra has written an excellent primer on getting up and running with PHP, ajax and IBM’s DB2-9. Let’s take a look at it.

Preventing Unwanted Access to Your API

Ok, so you’ve written a cool new Web API and you’ve written l33t JavaScript to call it from your page. The problem is, anybody who views your source can see how you call your new toy and use it for their own nefarious purposes. Granted, sometimes this is what you want but there are times when you want to keep your toys to yourself. For those times, here is a quick trick you can implement that will help thwart most evil doers.

Address Book Front-End Engineer - Sunnyvale, CA -US

Ok, there’s this small company named Yahoo, you may have heard of them. Anyhow, they are looking for a PHP developer. Click on inside for the details.

Ajax Chat Tutorial

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

The final part of our 7 part tutorial on creating an ajax chat system using MySQL and the Zend Framework.