More, now than ever, websites need fast response times and be able to cope under load. As web pages contain more and more dynamically generated content, the challenge is on for PHP developers to develop efficient caching solutions. This presentation will focus on using caching techniques that can be used in a PHP project to increase the performance of a web site.
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The Model Layer of the MVC triad: I’ve been thinking this over for the past few months since using the Doctrine ORM and I think I’ve finally made some progress to get this issue licked. In the past, I’ve agonised over this issue and blogged about my progress. Some weeks or days later I tried to probe the community on what they would do, Now I think I’d have an idea on what I would do.
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Since PHPUnit 3.4.0 a new extension point for interacting with issue tracking systems (TTS) based on the test results has been added to PHP's first choice xUnit framework. The extension point has been introduced by an abstract
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Today we are making an AJAX-enabled Sticky Note management system. It will give visitors the ability to create notes with a live preview, and move them around on the screen. Every movement is going to be sent to the back-end via AJAX and saved in the database.
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So you have got a new site setup on WordPress. Maybe you hired a designer or developer to set it up for you and they have just sent you your username and password. Well you are in luck because to get started you only need those two pieces of info. We are going to assume you have never logged in to your site before and start from the beginning.
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This article implements the beginner pattern, but it can also be useful to recap the terms we use lightheartedly in discussions about object-oriented programming.
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Here a new post about cool things in PHP that I found in my spare time. Here’s the list:
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I may not like how Google is building a monopoly on the internet, but, I have to admit that most of their services are useful. As developers, it is useful to know that Google hosts a lot of open source projects. Today, let’s have a look at the 10 most awesome projects hosted on Google code.
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Ok, the title pun, is intended. When I started out with PHP, every project I worked on required me to keep typing incessantly, not that I don’t like my keyboard or the keys on it, but sometimes the syntax does get to ya and not to mention the missing/dangling braces!
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There’s been a lot of talk online about finding the best approach for bringing Zend and Doctrine 1.x together. This video is my humble approach of combining some of the learning brought about over the last few weeks on Zendcasts, as well as suggestions from Doctrine developers.
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If you write code this book deserves a place on your bookshelf. It clearly demonstrates the sin, but shows how to find it and fix it (in several different languages C.C++ perl, php etc.). It may not cover every possible sin, but as the authors say if you do everything in this book you are doing pretty well.
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Yahoo r3 is a powerful tool for building websites which could require multiple languages or dimensions. The r3 outputs may be plain text files, web templates, configuration files or even source code. Sometimes maintaining a big site translated into different languages can become a nightmare, but r3 lets you do it on an easy way. It offers a neat and powerful command line interface which will make
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I've been doing a lot of work with services and working with them in various ways from PHP. There are a few different ways to do this, PHP has a curl extension which is useful, and if you can add PECL extensions then pecl_http is a better bet but there are a couple of different ways of using it. This post shows all these side-by-side.
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Today we will explore the Bridge pattern, whose intent is separating an abstraction from its implementation to improve decoupling and allowing them both to change independently.
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my first post contains 5 snippets for twitter. there are two variables used in almost all my twitter snippets - $username and $password... i think it’s obvious what they are for ;/
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