Weekly article batch 3
From this week i will try to resuscitate my weekly article batches. Here is the most interesting articles from the last week: Drupal 7 Vs. WordPress 3: Battle Of The New Features : an interesting read about the two highly anticipated open-source CMS releases of the year. You guessed correctly. Its about Drupal 7 and [...]
Importing large files into a MySQL database
From time to time i have to insert really large files into MySQL. And sometimes there are problems because you don’t have access to the mysql command line utility from the server to issue the source command (this lets you import dumps or sql files). So you have to use phpMyAdmin or some other web [...]
Weekly article batch 2
Here is the second edition of my weekly “press review” Interesting articles last week: Gartner report on PHP – published by Danne Lundqvist on dotvoid.com – writes about a report by Gartner (here) that makes it clear that more and more companies discover the benefits of PHP and adoption is increasing among major companies. A [...]
Weekly article batch. Edition 1
I read many articles and most times i don’t bookmark them even if they are fairly good articles and can be useful in some situations. I thought i should save them somewhere, but they are not so important to be added to bookmarks. So starting with this year i will publish a post with these [...]
10 Principles of the PHP Masters
A great post published by Internet Resources explains 10 principles of some of the most popular PHP programmers. In short here are the 1o principles of the PHP Masters and the name of the programmer bolded. I will only list them. For more details head over to the original post. Use PHP Only When You [...]
PHP 5.3 is here!
The PHP team announced the immediate release of the much anticipated PHP 5.3 This version is a major step forward for PHP which introduces namespaces,native closures, late static bindings and optional garbage collection for cyclic references, jump label (g0to). Also a handful of new extensions have been introduced (ext/phar, ext/intl and ext/fileinfo) and Windows support has [...]
How to make a permanent (301) redirect with PHP
Often we need to redirect permanently a page to a new location and this can be accomplished in many ways. I will discuss today the PHP method because this is the one i most often run into. So you can make a header redirect with php in the following manner: <?php header(“Location: /example.php”); ?> But [...]
You can run PHP on Google App Engine
It seems that some people figured out how to run PHP on Google App Engine. You may be wondering how this is possible as Google doesn’t support PHP on App Engine. Well its possible because recently Google announced Java as the newest programming language supported by the App Engine. And this made possible to run Quercus [...]
How to build a clickmap using PHP and jQuery
I’ve found a great article on the topic of tracking clicks and creating a clickmap using PHP and jQuery. The article explains how to Record the X and Y coordinates of the mouse cursor when it is clicked on a web page. Save those coordinates to a database When called, display a “clickmap” on top [...]
Interest for PHP is declining ?
Google Insights for Search is an interesting tool, it allows you to take a look at what people are serching for in different parts of the world and how is the volume of search evolving for a keyword in a specific part of the world or worldwide. I played a bit with Google Insights and [...]
How to create SVG images with PHP
I’ve just found a nice tutorial on how to create SVG images with PHP. This is a great example, explained step by step on how to generate all kinds of images. And after you read it, you will see that this is not so hard as you might have tought.
How to scrape webpages using PHP and XPath
If you need to extract information from remote webpages you can read this article about how to do it with PHP and XPath. The autor explains how extracting information can be very easy and it can be done in no time (less then 5 minutes) with the mentioned tools and without the use of regular expressions.
How to generate PDF files dynamically using PHP and Haru
An excellent tutorial on how to create PDF files dynamically using PHP and Haru written by Will Sinclair. And here is a quote from the article that grabbed my attention “When it comes to working with different file formats, PHP is like a Swiss Army knife: it has a tool to handle almost anything you [...]
Tips for improving your PHP programming skills
Smashing Magazine published an article with 10 tips to improve your PHP programming skills. They claim to be advanced tips but i tend to disagree. Every PHP programmer with 1-2 years of experience, somewhere around mid-level should know these things. But nevertheless the article is worth reading, if you did not know those things you [...]
PHP support may be on the way in Google App Engine
Rumor has it that Google is adding support for a new runtime language for Google App Engine. If you take a closer look at their roadmap you can see that for sure another runtime language will be added. But which one will be ? Java or PHP ? According to some reports, Google said that [...]
