Upcoming News
Every testing framework supports Stubs and Mock Objects, well...most of them. No wait, only one really does! SimpleTest. Yes, PHPUnit has a whole chapter on the topic - but let's just say it's implementation is more than a little broken.
The side effect of SimpleTest hogging the only true working Mock Object implementation has been an overwhelming de-emphasis in using Mock Objects in PHP. In
Read More
When we upload a file to MYSQL database we also save the file type and length. These were not needed for uploading the files but is needed for downloading the files from the database.
Read More
If you think about the best IDE you will probably think about eclipse with the PDT-Plugin, Netbeans or Kommodo. None of them has special support for the Symfony-Framework. As I wrote in an earlier post I’m using eclipse for my daily work. With some enhancements it is a pretty good IDE for Symfony-Development. Netbeans catched up with the last releases an there is a special Symfony-Support planned
Read More
This function will convert any long url into a Diggbar url
Read More
So you are looking for a way to save a PHP page as a word doc programatically? Then you have come to the right place.
When I had to overcome this problem my main requirement was that I could not open word on the server.
Searching around the net produced countless pages with the same responses of using COM or using some third party library’s and software. However as with any project if it is
Read More
MVC is a common programming methodology and architectural pattern. The basis of MVC is organization. It is a methodology that can be applied to every script and function you write. MVC is very common in system languages, such as C++ and Java but the concept becomes a little vague and applied less often when it comes to web scripting languages such as Perl, PHP or JavaScript. However, there are ma
Read More
Automating the PHP deployment process with Phing, dbdeploy and FTP
Read More
The goal of this project was to use cakePHP controllers, as flash remoting services.The basic idea was to use AMFPHP 1.9, because we used it before, and it was a good choice in earlier projects. As nobody wants to "reinvent the wheel", I googled for a solution to integrate the AMFPHP into the cakePHP framework.
Read More
Web applications have made huge leaps and bounds in improving user experience thanks to a lot of recently developed Ajax technology. When you combine some neat functionality courtesy of PHP with the cleverness of jQuery you can produce some pretty neat effects. In an effort to help you take it up a notch, we’d like to share some methods for helping your site anticipate a user’s next move.
Read More
Working with the interface for Keryx for windows, I needed a way to check the size of a file which was on a remote server.
I was stuck and didn’t know where to start. I was left in googling my issue. Lucky I found some code quite easily and decided to share it with you.
Read More
Bambalam is a free command line tool to convert #php applications to standalone Windows .exe
Read More
The jdMenu plugin for jQuery provides a clean, simple and elegant solution for creating hierarchical drop down menus for websites to web applications.
Read More
In this part, we will see how closures can be used to build classes in a completely new way.
Read More
According to a study made by the European Commission, the number of existing open source applications already available would have cost firms around £8 billion to produce. The PHP community believes strongly in openness as a key factor for success, and has been contributing to open source for more than a decade now. But, why?
Read More
