Getting Started with ORM in PHP
ORM, or Object Relational Mapping, is a database design approach that simplifies managing complex databases for programmers....
View ArticleWebGrind: web-based frontend for XDebug PHP profiling
Webgrind is a web-based Xdebug profiling frontend for PHP similar to kcachegrind. Webgrind provides a simple PHP-powered...
View ArticlePhing: A build system for PHP
As PHP applications grow in size and complexity of structure, developers often find themselves putting together a...
View Article8 Cool Functions in the GD2 extension
Most PHP developers have at least heard of GD2; thanks to its prolific use in CAPTCHA generation,...
View ArticleLoad testing your web application with Apache Bench
Often you need solid metrics on the performance of your web application. Benchmarking your website can provide...
View ArticleMigrating legacy PHP 4 applications to PHP 5
As Ivo Jansch pointed out on the Ibuildings blog, there’s barely a month left till security fixes...
View ArticleSimpleTest: Unit Testing for PHP
We recently looked at front-end testing of web applications with Selenium. Today, we’ll take another approach to...
View ArticleEasy Screen Scraping in PHP with the Simple HTML DOM Library
Client-side developers always had it easy – libraries such as jQuery and Prototype make finding elements on...
View ArticleZend Framework Tutorial
I find myself constantly bombared with questions from students and co-workers I've introduced to the Zend Framework regarding how the different components can come together to form a basic application....
View ArticleWriting A Simple Twitter Client Using the PHP Zend Framework’s OAuth Library...
I finally got around to patching and finishing Zend_Oauth's Consumer implementation for the OAuth Core 1.0 Revision A specification. Once I had it finished, I used it to write a quick and simple...
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