Categories


Loading feed
Loading feed

Tuesday Morning Quickie: Joining .WAV Files Using PHP

Ok, Monday has come and gone. The reality of the work week is settling in and we are all “counting ‘em down” till Friday. Here’s a quickie to help you fill that void between Sunday night and Friday afternoon. Andreas Gohr has posted a quick tutorial on how to stitch together .WAV files. Click on inside and I’ll dig up the URL.

Zend Framework, JSON, and Del.icio.us

del.icio.us is a social linking site to store web links. Some one afternoon while messing around Zend Framework I had the idea that it might be nice to add my Del.icio.us links to my homepage. This sounds easy enough as Del.icio.us makes available an RSS feed for this purpose. However, there is one problem; Zend_Feed does not seem to be able to parse this particular RSS feed. Click on inside for full details and how to get things working.

Peter Goodman On "Observers and Dispatchers"

Peter Goodman has posted an interesting little tutorial on his blog titled “Observers and Dispatchers”. Like the recently released “Snakes on a Plane” it deliveres exactly what you would expect. Except the tutorial is actually entertaining, from what I’ve heard, the movie isn’t. Come on on and I’ll give you the rundown on the tutorial. (You’ll have to waste your own money on the movie)

IBM Continues with "Understanding the Zend Framework" Series

For those of you not paying attention, IBM has been quietly releasing new installments in it’s “Understanding the Zend Framework” series. The series of tutorials is now in it’s 6th installment and the feed reader that readers are building is really beginning to take shape.

MySQL on i5/OS Example

MySQL is an open source database that has gained popularity in the web application world and is used in most of the leading/hot PHP (Hypertext Pre Processor) applications. Now that System i is a supported hardware platform for PHP with the availability of Zend Core for i5/OS, we have documented instructions for downloading, installing and running MySQL in the Portable Application Solution Environment (PASE) on the System i. MySQL is not an IBM i5/OS supported environment, use accordingly.

Automating Amazon research with the Zend Framework

Jason Gilmore, Editorial Director for Apress Open Source and author of three books, shows you how you too can track his book’s popularity on Amazon. Ok so he also shows you how he used the Zend Framework to build his mashup too.

See Mr. Dizzy. See Mr. Dizzy run. See Mr. Dizzy implement a bad idea in his Constructor.

Nick Lo may not go down in history as one of the prolific children’s book writers of our time; he will, however be remembered for an informative and fun to read blog.

Extending the CakePHP framework

CakePHP is making quite an impact on the PHP Framework landscape. In this article, Daniel Hofstetter, one of the Bakers on the CakePHP team, shows us how to extend the CakePHP with helpers and components.

Extra! Extra! PHP and DB2 on i5/OS!

Attention i5/OS fans! IBM has just released an article on how to use PHP and DB2 on i5/OS. If you’ve been scratching your noggin about this topic then scratch no more, help is here. Titled “Use PHP scripts to access DB2 UDB for iSeries data with Zend Core for i5/OS” it’s a great primer to get you up and running with these powerful technologies.

Having Trouble Getting Your REGEX Mojo Working? Here is an Article That Will Help.

Man I hate REGEX. Not for what it does, it’s a powerful weapon. It’s part sniper rifle, part bazooka and extremely useful in some situations. As powerful as it is though, it is a pain to write a good REGEX query; especially when you only do it occasionally. Thankfully, Bernard Peh and the gang over at WebProNews have released a primer for REGEX in PHP that makes it a little less painful to work with.