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Most programmers are familiar with Eclipse, and PHP programmers are familiar with Zend Studio. But, like two great tastes that taste good together, the two have now been combined into a single tool. Learn how you can use Zend Studio to make your PHP programming more productive. Michael J. Ross 2008-03-11T15:07:49-08:10 Using Zend Studio for PHP programming

You can talk about Web 2.0 all you want, but at the end of the day, a lot of the web still runs on simple form-based user interfaces. So anything that makes forms easier is a Good Thing. Adam Smith likes the HTML_QuickForm library for doing forms in PHP, and tells us why. Adam Smith 2007-09-13T16:05:56-08:11 Quick and clean PHP forms

As Software as a Service becomes more of a trend in the industry, Web Services are gaining in importance. When most people think of Web Services, they think of Java or .NET, but as Deepak Vohra shows in this article, it's simple enough to implement them in PHP. Deepak Vohra 2007-07-26T14:46:14-08:12 Developing web services using PHP

Flex is Adobe's answer to the problem of finding a multi-platform environment for rich browser applications. Jack Herrington highlights some of the power of Flex by showing how you can combine it with PHP to produce a quick and easy video blogging site. Jack Herrington 2007-05-24T14:46:14-08:13 Creating MyTube with Flex and PHP

Would you like to take your PHP web applications to the next level? Bill Lubanovic provides a step-by-step demonstration of how you can enable the latest Web 2.0 features in your application. Bill Lubanovic 2007-05-10T14:46:14-08:14 Migrating web-based PHP applications to AJAX

At the end of the day, all code gets turned into data before it is executed. Sometimes, you can use that fact to help ease some of your programming chores. Zachary Kessin examines the PHP reflection capabilities and shows how you can use them to automate the creation of unit tests. Zachary Kessin 2007-04-26T14:46:14-08:15 Code as data: Reflection in PHP

Your users know exactly what they want to find on your web site, but they just can't find it. If only your site had a good search engine. Michael Douma and his team recently compared several different search engines for PHP sites. Here are their results. Michael Douma 2007-03-22T10:15:05-08:16 Fuel your engine with PHP

HTTP is stateless. If you've ever written a web application where user data matters, you know that managing that data can be troublesome. There are two kinds of data, though: page and session data. Understanding the differences can help you develop better and more easily. Brian Fioca explains. Brian Fioca 2006-05-18T15:44:42-08:17 Keeping Track of User and Site Data

PHP is an easy language for doing practical things immediately. The easiest ways to begin aren't always the best ways to stay productive, though. PHP's support for object orientation requires a little more learning and a little more discipline, but it has many benefits for larger projects. David Day explains the basics of OO in PHP 4. David Day 2006-05-11T09:44:44-08:18 A shift in technique to make coding easier

PHP 5 has greatly improved object-oriented programming support. It also has new hooks to overload methods and properties. How can you do this? Why would you want to? Martin Jansen demonstrates method and property overloading with PHP 5 objects. Martin Jansen 2006-05-11T09:44:44-08:19 A little meta-programming for PHP 5

On the internet, how can you tell a person from a program written to act just like a person? One approach is to ask a question that (usually) only a human could answer. Marcus Whitney shows off a PEAR package to do this easily from PHP. Marcus Whitney 2006-05-11T09:44:44-08:20 The bouncer is a Turing test!

PHP 5 added several new features to the language, yet laundry lists and high-level overviews don't really show what they are or why you might use them. Fortunately, Adam Trachtenberg writes for us. Here's how to use the new features of PHP 5 for writing web services clients. Adam Trachtenberg 2006-05-11T09:44:44-08:21 PHP 5 and the eBay API

Eww, statistics. Right? Not necessarily--for example, calculating the entropy of your web statistics can help you analyze trends and correlations. Paul Meagher demonstrates statistical programming in PHP while explaining single-variable entropy. Paul Meagher 2006-05-11T09:44:44-08:22 Expressing confidence in your data

The most popular "proper" way to build a web application seems to be to use the Model-View-Controller design pattern. While it sounds complex, the concepts are sound and the ease of development it provides are compelling. Joe Stump shows how the Model works by developing a working version in PHP 5. Joe Stump 2006-05-11T09:44:43-08:23 Understanding the Model in MVC development

The most popular "proper" way to build a web application seems to be to use the Model-View-Controller design pattern. While it sounds complex, the concepts are sound and the ease of development it provides are compelling. Joe Stump shows how the View works by developing a working version in PHP 5. Joe Stump 2006-05-11T09:44:43-08:24 Understanding the view in MVC development

PHP is one of the most popular programming languages for the web. Sometimes a feature-friendly language can help the programmer too much, and security holes can creep in, creating roadblocks in the development path. In this tutorial, we will take a look at 5 tips to help you avoid some common PHP security pitfalls and development glitches.

So every time I am designing something new I find myself either searching Google or opening up a gang of four (GoF) book to aid me. I searched for a bit trying to find a handy-dandy flash card showing class diagrams and purposes for the basic GoF patterns but was unable to locate a good one (for free). So I made my own.If you see any mistakes or improvements please post here and I will update the docs.

This tutorial teaches the fundamentals of CakePHP controller. *This is a PDF File, might take some time to load*

Back in PHP 2, the “magic quotes” setting seemed like a great idea. It would automatically escape all of your input so you didn’t have to worry about those pesky SQL injections. Any dodgy characters entered by the user would be automatically escaped by a backslash.

Design patterns are just for Java™ architects -- at least that's what you may have been led to believe. In fact, design patterns are useful for everyone. If these tools aren't exclusive to architecture astronauts, what are they, and why are they useful in PHP applications? This article explains.