PHP Abstract Podcast Episode 40: Data Importing
Today our special guest is Lorna Mitchell. Lorna is a Developer at Ibuildings in the UK, and is based in Leeds in the North of England. She is a Zend... more »
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Accessing Nike+ data with PHP
Nike+ is a feature for the iPod nano which allows to measure time, distance and speed of runnings with a small sensor in running shoes that sends data... more »
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Calculating time by converting between time zones using PHP and PEAR
PHP comes with an extensive catalog of date and time functions, all designed to let you easily retrieve temporal information, massage it into a format... more »
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Mapping visitors' IP addresses in PHP
Sometimes you just need to know what country your site visitors are coming from—for example, if you're trying to implement geo-targeted advertising.... more »
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PHP Universal Feed Parser - lightweight PHP class for parsing RSS and ATOM feeds.
It's a lightweight and easy-to-use PHP class for reading and parsing RSS and ATOM feed. This class automatically detect the feed version and extract... more »
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Yaml (yml) file gotchas - trying to set default culture to “no”
The yaml file parser will attempt to parse all the values, rather than taking them as they are - which in most cases is a good thing, however you must... more »
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Who let the Dwoo out ?
Four months have passed since I started on this project and I finally feel that it is stable enough to make an announcement and have more people... more »
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symfony 1.0.16 is out
symfony 1.0.16 is out and fixes an important security breach. This is the shortest changelog one may find between two releases: a one line file.
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The magic empty string that is not empty
I just helped one of our developers with a weird problem. The piece of code he was working on contained roughly this: if ($str!='') { echo... more »
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CakePHP 1.2 Stable! Come and help
the CakePHP team is gearing up to finally push out a stable 1.2 release! If you are following the trac timeline you can see that everybody is putting... more »
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Example Zend Framework Blog Application Tutorial: Part 8: Creating and Editing Blog Entries with a dash of HTMLPurifier
There's nothing quite like having a functioning application emerge out of the controlled chaos we know as The Development Process. In Part 8 of the... more »
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PHP: www vs no-www and cookies
One of Yahoo's performance rules says: Use cookie-free domains for static components. This is good because the server has no use for cookie... more »
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Automating Processes by observing the Pattern
Use the SQL Queries to save time in Seagull Framework's Permision
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Xajax and Vanilla
A couple weeks ago I read a few posts where the authors discussed what they had accomplished that day. I thought I would do something similar and talk... more »
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Create Drupal 6 Modules with New Book
Learning Drupal 6 Module Development is a new book from Packt, which acts as a practical tutorial for creating Drupal 6 modules with PHP. Written by... more »
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SugarCRM integration - website session and SOAP session
How to open a sugacrm web session bypassing the login page or, the opposite case, allow sugarcrm plugins to open a soap connection making use of an... more »
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Recompiling PHP5 With Bundled Support for GD on Ubuntu
PHP5 on Ubuntu does not come with the bundled version of Lib GD installed on it. This means users cannot use (amongst others) the imagerotate()... more »
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