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Introduction to the Code Igniter PHP frameworkYou have to see this video to really understand how simple that using Code Igniter is. If you want a PHP framework that does not take a unix systems administrator to setup then try Code Igniter. read more | Developer Zone PHP VideoHow to use Simple XML in PHP5 to parse XMLThe SimpleXML extension in PHP5 provides a very simple and easily usable toolset to convert XML to an object that can be processed with normal property selectors and array iterators. You can read, write or iterate over your XML file with ease accessing elements and attributes. read more | Developer Zone PHP TutorialsObject Oriented VS. Procedural Programming In PHP 5I don't agree with everything that is said here. There is also too much comparison with other languages rather than a discussion of PHP5. But there are some interesting points made which PHP programmers should think about. read more | Developer Zone PHP VideoHow to check for the server OS in PHPOne of the most frustrating things about using third party scripts to developing in PHP is the fact that litterally none of them check for the operative system. PHP is pretty universal but there are many things which differ or are dependant on a particular server operative system. To find the server os there is the predefined constants. I often use this for determining between Windows and all others: read more | Developer Zone PHPAuthentication without sessions in PHPArnold talks about how to persist user authentication without using sessions. The solution is intersesting in that it covers the problem of trying to use sessions over multiple servers. I found this to be a little eye opener because one of the requests for features for FireOrb is that each user should have their own salt so that authentication in Ajax is simpler. vbBulliten does something similar to this and it is very effective. read more | Developer Zone PHP Tips and TricksPHP5 48 Hours LaterA few months ago a group of PHP web developers decided that it was time to kill PHP4. They started an initiative to have all open source PHP projects to drop PHP4 support and move on to PHP5. Also included in the campaign is a push for web hosting companies to adopt PHP5. The initiative is called goPHP5. Now the time has come to see just how far they have gotten with getting support from the open source PHP world and web hosting companies. February 5, 2008 was the date picked for the... read more | Announcements Open source PHPPHPPHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML. If you are new to PHP and want to get some idea of how it works, try the introductory tutorial. read more | PHPPHP6 Binaries for Windows Released!The last few months I have been keeping an eye on http://snaps.php.net to see when and if the windows binaries for PHP6 would show. A couple of days ago the nightly builds started showing for win32. Now I can experiment with PHP6 and learn more about it without having to compile the source. This is a happy coincidence because a fellow worker asked me if I had tried PHP6 and what did I think. I declined to answer because I have been too lazy to do anything more than download the source and... read more | Developer Zone News PHPA Simple PHP Progress IndicatorI needed a very simple progress indicator for a PHP migration script. Most of the ones I saw on the web were too involved. So I wrote a little snippet that writes to the page using javascript. Place the following PHP at the end of the while loop or whatever iterating process and the script will change the inner.HTML of a tag on the page. Of course I could make this more involved by adding in a bunch of changable variables and fancy characters. But I leave it up to those that like that kind... read more | Developer Zone PHP TutorialsHow to Install eAccelarator PHP CacheeAccelerator is a free open-source PHP accelerator, optimizer, and dynamic content cache. It increases the performance of PHP scripts by caching them. This is the second part of a series on how to install PHP and optimize it with a cache handler. Here we take a look at installing eAccelerator on a shared hosting account at Dreamhost. eAccelerator typically reduces server load and increases the speed of your PHP code by 1-10 times. read more | PHP Tutorials Web Developer |
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