The PHP version of Twitter is open source
The PHP open source community welcomes the new Twitter, a micro-blogging service based on the Free Software Laconica tool.
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TDD with Symfony: The first test always fails
Symfony is one of the few PHP frameworks that gives you basic tools for starting to write tests. It provides a special object, called sfBrowser, which... more »
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CMS battle: Drupal vs Joomla vs Custom Programming
In modern Content Management System (CMS) world there are two major figures - Joomla (descendant of Mambo CMS ) and Drupal. They both are open source... more »
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Namespaces in PHP? Why *wouldn’t* you want them?
Earlier today I say the following tweet on the-often-down-but-always-interested Twitter from Matthew Weier-O’Phinney: “What issues to _you_ see... more »
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Installing Xdebug - Best Decision You Will Ever Make
I finally got around to installing Xdebug on my development environment and have decided it is the best thing since sliced bread.Installation was a... more »
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Which PHP framework is slower?
When it comes to developing and scaling Web applications, performance is everything. Ekerete Akpan, from AVNet Labs, conducted a series of benchmarks... more »
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Testing Zend Framework MVC Applications
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Since Matthew originally started hacking on the Zend Framework MVC in the fall of 2006, he has been touting the fact that you can test ZF MVC projects... more »
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PHPExcel: Manipulate Excel Spreadsheets with PHP on Linux
Have you ever faced a situation when you need to manipulate Excel spreadsheets with PHP on the server that is running Linux? With Open XML and... more »
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Simple AJAX - PHP and Javascript
This tutorial will cover just the basics with AJAX, and we will start with the base object you need: a XMLHTTP Javascript object.
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Google now offers easy great looking web galleries for your website
Picasa Templates Create great looking web photo galleries for your site with Picasa and web gallery templates. Come check out free and easy tutorials... more »
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A week of symfony #78 (23->29 june 2008)
Unbelievable week for symfony: more than 200 changesets committed and 60 bugs fixed, great symfony 1.1 development activity, lots of symfony 1.0.x... more »
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PHP - Stop including class files and use __autoload() instead
PHP added several magic methods in PHP5. __autoload(), however, isn’t one of them. But that doesn’t make it any less useful. In fact it’s one of... more »
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Flickr Architecture
Cal Henderson gave a presentation to the Vancouver PHP Association last year about Flickr’s general architecture and the use of PHP
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PHP Tricks: Easily eliminate any unwanted characters from a string
I wanted to scrub any characters out of a string that were not alphanumeric. So, I wrote this function that uses a simple regular expression to detect... more »
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5 mistakes new web developers often make
Having talked to some university students who had taken computer science/IT degrees, I was amazed by how little they seemed to know about making... more »
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How to bridge PHP and Java on Windows with Apache Tomcat
Want to run PHP and access Java? Here's how to do it on Windows XP using Apace and Apache Tomcat. Although the tutorial show you how to do things by... more »
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Javascript-to-PHP Remoting
This is a demonstration of a very fast and easy way to build AJAX-type applications where communications between JavaScript on the client side and... more »
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Use PHP's __autoload() function to make your code easier to read and maintain
PHP5 has an __autoload function which will handle automatically including class files when you use a class which has not yet been defined.
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Run Several Apps on a Single Stack with BitNami Modules
The nice thing about BitNami Stacks is that they're really easy to install because they include all of an application's dependencies. But what if you... more »
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PHP - Opening and Saving Files over FTP
PHP makes file system manipulation easy with its variety of built-in functions. One thing I always knew, but never got the chance to try, is that many... more »
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Python Gets Drupy
Via Boris Mann's blog, I just learned about Drupy - a full port of Drupal on Python. Among all the initial reactions I have to this announcement, the... more »
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The Ternary Operator
Every good programmer should constantly be looking for ways to improve the look and readability of their code. One of my favorite ways to reduce... more »
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Pool: Zend framework is the most popular PHP framework
It seems Zend framework is one of the most popular PHP framework among the PHP project developers.
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Generating Reports and Statistics in PHP
Discover the PHP libraries that help you generate statistics and reports that analyze data from text files, XML, or relational databases.
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15 Tools to Help You Develop Web Pages Faster than before
Response times, availability, and stability are vital factors to bear in mind when creating and maintaining a web application. If you’re concerned... more »
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