We are one more release candidate closer to PHP 5.3.1. Hopefully this will be the last one! See article for download link.

Zend and Varien, developer of Magento, the world’s fastest growing eCommerce platform, today announced that they have partnered to make it easier for small- and medium-sized businesses to quickly evaluate, develop, and deploy flexible, state-of-the-art ecommerce Web applications.

The Observer pattern defines a mechanism by which components can opt-in to receive messages when a target object changes its state. Its works similar to Listening to a Change event for a object or Trigger in a database, which runs a stored procedure when a table row is modified.

The Observer pattern defines a mechanism by which components can opt-in to receive messages when a target object changes its state. Its works similar to Listening to a Change event for a object or Trigger in a database, which runs a stored procedure when a table row is modified.

I’ve written a simple single sign-on solution (400 lines of code) in PHP, which works by linking sessions. This solutions works for normal websites as well as AJAX sites.

Objects in PHP are assigned by reference, so copying an object with the = operator will result in a second variable referencing the same object and not an actual copy. Enter PHP's clone function which creates a shallow copy of the object.

Akelos touts itself as a port of Ruby on Rails (RoR) to PHP but, frankly, I think that’s mostly marketing. Hell, even in the footer disclaimer on the Akelos site they minimize the R0R relationship. Not that that’s a bad thing per se (I wouldn’t want to be associated with RoR at the moment either).

How to edit in place using AJAX? If you are not familiar with how flickr handles editing data, here’s a short summary. * Show user the data field normally (for instance: the title of a picture) * When mouse rolls over that title, make the background of the word yellow * If the user clicks on the word, change that word to a input box with the word in it. Also show a “save” and “cancel” button * A user can rename the picture and then push “save.”

Keep all session data in a central place. And in this scenario I'll use Apache/PHP as my "application server" and memcached as central storage for my session data.

What happens when the project manager and lead developer leave one of the most popular PHP frameworks on the internet today? You get Lithium a lightweight, fast and flexible framework built for PHP5.3.

In this article we demonstrate several ways to create Microsoft Word and Excel documents, and also CSV files using PHP. Learn how to create files using HTTP headers, COM objects, OpenOffice templates, fputcsv function.

call_user_func_array allows you to call a user function given with an array of parameters. Basically we may use this function to mimic some code that many of us write on a daily basis.

Some great resources for php developers

Every developer, at one point in time, will run into a situation where they need to display a small amount of dynamic data. Why create a whole database? Enter the magical world of XML. Here you’ll learn how to use PHP and XML to randomly generate HTML content.

This tutorial shows you how to use PHP to return a JSON object to a client.

This tutorial shows you how to retrieve and display your twitter status with PHP.

This is the tutorial how to preload images with javascript, bellow is the example.

This tutorial shows you how to create PDF documents with PHP in 10 easy steps.

Simple tutorial on how to create simple charts using pChart Library, pChrt is a simple, easy to use charting engine for php.