Articles in PHP

Open Standards - The Better Way

There has been a lot of traction lately on the topic of thePSR"PHP Framework Interoperability Group". They are introducing two new proposed standards:PSR-1andPSR-2, both dealing with code formatting standards. Actually, calling them proposed is a bit of a short-fall,...

Don't Be Stupid, Grasp Solid - Slides

By Anthony Ferrara

Here are the slides from my presentation atNYPHPonSTUPID vs SOLIDdevelopment. Click through to see the slides.Read more \xbb

MongoDB Cursors with PHP

By Derick Rethans

MongoDB Cursors with PHP London, UK Tuesday, May 22nd 2012, 09:15 BST Recently I was asked to improve theMongoCursor::batchSizedocumentation. This began an indepth investigation in how the PHPdriverforMongoDBhandles pulling data that's been queried...

Interview with Joe Devon

By Cal Evans

Blog:\xa0http://mysqltalk.wordpress.com/ Twitter:\xa0@joedevon Show Notes: http://www.laphp.org/ http://mysqltalk.wordpress.com/2011/11/27/challenge-accessibility-know-how-needs-to-go-mainstream-with-developers-now/ http://www.mysqltalk.com/gaad.html http://semanticweb.com/global-accessibility-awareness-day-is-today-but-wheres-the-semtech_b28823 Sponsored...

Sending Mail

By Paul Reinheimer

Like every product, Natural Load Testing needs to send some mail, having written and re-written a bunch of different blocks of mail code over the years, I wanted to come up with something that would work now, and continue to serve us well into the future. Basic...

Zend Framework: CRUD

By till

I think it took me (or us) a couple attempts to get thisright\u2014 let me introduce you to Zf_Crud, a CRUD controller for the Zend Framework. What's CRUD? CRUD is an acronym and stands for: Create Read Update Delete A general purpose for CRUD...

Use `env`

By Sean Coates

Weuse quite a few technologies to build our products, butGimme Baris still primarily a PHP app. To support these apps, we have a number of command-line scripts that handle maintenance tasks, cron jobs, data migration jobs, data processing workers, etc. These...

If Node.js Is So Hot, Then Where Is The Ecosystem?

By Stuart Herbert

I've recently built a product inNode JS, and it was a very positive experience (more on that in another blog post). I'm now looking around at what I need to do to package it all up for customers and entrepreneurs \u2013 hosting, developer meetups,...

JSDay & PHPDay 2012 Verona

By Liip

From May 16th to May 19th the latest edition ofjsDayandphpDaytook place inVerona,\xa0Italy. Both are two-day conferences, the first one centered around\xa0JavaScript, the second around PHP (obviously). They are organised by the\xa0community (Grusp) which means...

[Visual Studio Extension Of The Day] PHP Tools for Visual Studio

By Hosam Kamel

PHP Tools extend Visual Studio with the support for PHP code. The extension adds syntax highlighting, real-time checking of syntax errors, code outlining which makes it easier to understand code and navigation features, so that you can easily go...