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CMS covers the complete lifecycle of the pages on site, from providing simple tools to create the content, through to publishing, and finally to archiving. End user can edit and manage the website without having to get into the code.
Although PHP didn't start out as an object-oriented language, growing interest in building object-oriented PHP applications led the development team to reconsider PHP's initially weak OOP implementation, making a much more capable and mature set of features available with the version 5 release. These vast improvements opened up an entirely new set of opportunities for the PHP community, includi
The conventional wisdom always said that PHP’s include()/require() was quicker than include_once()/require_once(), but recently I came across an interesting post by Arin Sarkissian which suggests otherwise. Also I found more commentary on the performance benefit of using relative versus absolute paths in include()/require() and include_once()/require_once() statements (although the main article’
Two highly anticipated CMS releases, Drupal 7.x and WordPress 3.x, are both set to appear in the next month or two. Drupal 7 is currently in Alpha release, but is aiming for a Beta release later this month. WordPress is a little bit ahead, having published a Release Candidate on May 28th. In light of the coincidental (?) timing of these two major releases, let’s take a look at some of the new fea
This article will introduce you to that powerful new form of website speed optimization called Fragment Caching. It builds upon ideas used elsewhere to make the technique even more powerful. A PHP implementation is available for download.
Web development in Scala has taken another step forward. Alex Ramos tells us about a new open-source software package that has become available to convert PHP code to Scala. While Wolfgang Kühn, a member of the trading development team at ENBW describes how to translate Scala into Javascript. These two open source projects allow you to convert existing PHP application code to a more maintainable
Do you know which framework is dominant on the web? Have a look at this chart to see which frameworks are hot, and which are not.
Every once in a while I stumble upon interfaces or somebody mentions them to me. Whenever this happens I realise that the use of Interfaces as an OOP key feature in PHP is next to none at all. But why is that?
A backdoor provides access to an application bypassing the normal authentication process. There are many ways to do this. Some are more secure than others.
PHP 5.3 and the Future. I guess main concern here is similar we used to have with PHP4 to PHP5 migration (GoPHP5 campaign). How can the migration path for shared hosting companies be made easier? If you were writing a new open-source application would you go purely 5.3+? Do you know of any other open-source applications requiring 5.3+?
I found CodeIgniter yesterday and it looks really promising for a php framework. It’s very similar to Symfony but its geared towards the shared hosting crowd who wants a framework that can work with them a little better (or at all). I worked with Symfony about a year ago on a project called MeetFish and it was really cool to see how rapidly we developed the site using a framework (the awesome pro
How do you delete the file that is cached on Browser due to future expire header set by your web application? Future expire header is suggested for static content such as image, CSS and JavaScript. These are the contents that rarely change and can be set in future.
Everyone has probably already seen every caching class there ever was and ever will be. However, when I was searching for a class that could easily be switched from one data store to the next I couldn't find a thing. Every caching class I seemed to come by was written specifically for a single back end and with their predefined static keys/column names. Well, those silly restrictions have come to
To demonstrate some uses of PHP 5.3's fun new anonymous functions let's implement the famous functions: map and reduce.
In Part I we deconstructed the differences between anonymous functions, lambdas, and closures in PHP. You may want to get comfy with those terms before continuing here. As a refresher, lambdas and anonymous functions are essentially the same idea: functions that are values just
Zend has launched an affiliate program tailored specifically to PHP user groups. Giorgio Sironi takes a look at what the bargain consists, and what its intended targets think about it.
