What is PHP? PHP is a popular and widely used programming language used for website development. PHP stands for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor. PHP is server side scripting language for creating Web pages. PHP is very easy to understand & learn. It supports most common databases like Oracle, Sybase and MySQL. It also includes external libraries [...]
DevShed continues their series looking at connecting a PHP5 script to the powerful Yahoo! search backend with part four of the series today. This part focuses on reworking some of the previous examples to make them more modular using custom defined functions. Logically, these examples can be really useful for learning the basic concepts surrounding [...]
In this post to the Developer Tutorials blog, Akash Mehta talks about the “version dilemma” that developers face when looking for good hosting – with all of the push towards PHP5 these days, why is it that so many hosting environments are still running on PHP4? If you purchase a cheap hosting account with many [...]
Jonathan Snook has posted about a method he’s using to make the creation/use of static pages in a CakePHP application (or website) simpler. Traditionally in a CakePHP application, to do static pages you have two options: use the built-in Pages controller or set up an empty action in a controller. Feeling that neither of these [...]
Based off of a previous article from Mike Willbanks, Stuart Herbert has posted some of his own thoughts on tuning and tweaking your applications for the best performance you can get out of them. There’s some good advice in there, and I thought it’d be a good idea to quickly add a bit more detail [...]
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The Developer Tutorials blog has a new article that talks about their method for creating simple geotargeting for your visitors. In this tutorial, we’ll take a look at the technique of geotargeting, or serving content to users based on their physical location. The technology is invaluable; with simple techniques, you can target advertising to specific [...]
Zend Developer Zone: Creating Data Tables With PEAR Structures_DataGrid
05 Feb
Posted by Joe as PHP 5
Cal Evans has posted a tutorial on the Zend Developer Zone (posted today) about using the PEAR Structures_DataGrid package to create quick and easy data tables. In this article, I’ll be introducing you to the Structures_DataGrid package, showing you how it can be used to display structured data in tabular form. I’ll be showing you [...]
DevShed has posted part two in their series looking at the use of destructors in PHP5. This time they focus on their use with multiple objects inside of an application. Destructors can be used in all sorts of clever ways in the context of a given PHP 5 application, mostly in those cases where it’s [...]
As mentioned on the Zend Developer Zone, there’s a new post on kapustabrothers.com about a method for indexing all of those PDF files your site uses with the help of the Zend Framework’s Zend_Search_Lucene component. along with many others have been trying and asking how to index and search PDF files. Once Zend released its [...]
