Writing "Learning PHP 5" Developers often write open source software in public, but what about developers who write about open source software? Do they build tools? How do your favorite books come about? David Sklar explains how he wrote Learning PHP 5. [ONLamp.com]
Allowing Registration-Required Binary Downloads You have a great PDF, MP3, or binary file to distribute, but you want to know who's downloading it. How hard could it be to write a little PHP program to require registration before letting your goodies loose? Robert Bernier demonstrates that it's actually pretty easy. [ONLamp.com]
|
|
Migrating to Page Controllers Simple web apps can start simple, but when they grow more complex, they often need pruning and refactoring to be maintainable. The Page Controller design pattern can help separate concerns such as templates and logic. Ethan McCallum demonstrates this language-neutral technique with PHP. [ONLamp.com]
PHP Form Handling If your PHP program is a dynamic web page (and it probably is) and your PHP program is dealing with user input (and it probably is), then you need to work with HTML forms. David Sklar, author of Learning PHP 5, offers tips for simplifying, securing, and organizing your form-handling PHP code. [ONLamp.com]
Simplify Business Logic with PHP DataObjects Are you sick of writing the same SQL over and over in your application? Would you like to simplify and unify your access to the same tables in multiple places? DataObjects may be for you. Darryl Patterson demonstrates how to write and use DataObjects in PHP. [PHP DevCenter]
PHP Debugging Basics Whether you're a PHP newbie or a wizard, your programs are going to have bugs in them. Nobody's perfect. David Sklar, author of Learning PHP 5, provides techniques for finding and fixing the problems in your programs. [ONLamp.com]
ANOVA Statistical Programming with PHP Data miners and researchers often have to review their work for statistical variances. The Analysis of Variance technique is a popular and effective way to gauge the effects of an experiment. Paul Meagher demonstrates how to use PHP, MySQL, and JpGraph for productive data-mining work. [PHP DevCenter]
Getting Started with PHP's HTML_QuickForm Web programming can be dull the second time you have to validate client parameters or render data to form elements. Fortunately, PHP's HTML_QuickForm class simplifies the creation, processing, and validation of client parameters. Keith Edmunds explains how to start using QuickForm. [PHP DevCenter]
Why PHP 5 Rocks! Adam Trachtenberg provides a quick tour around PHP 5, highlighting seven of his favorite new features. These features (including better support for OOP, bundled SQLite, iterators, and more cool stuff) will allow your PHP 5 code to be more concise, more elegant, and more flexible than ever. Adam is the author of the upcoming Upgrading to PHP 5. [ONLamp.com]
Building a PHP Front Controller It's a rare web app that doesn't span multiple pages. It's also rare that such an app doesn't have some common behavior. The Front Controller design pattern can simplify processing, behavior, and the user experience. Ethan McCallum explains how to use this in your applications. [ONLamp.com]
Using Shared Memory from PHP At some point, you'll need to communicate with another process. Unix systems support a powerful IPC mechanism called shared memory that you can use to share information between processes. Alexander Prohorenko explains the basic theory and demonstrates how to use it from PHP. [PHP DevCenter]
User-Friendly Form Validation with PHP and CSS Any non-trivial web application processes form data, and every secure web application has to validate that data on the server. Balancing security with user-friendliness can be tricky. Jeff Cogswell demonstrates one approach. [PHP DevCenter]
Features
Creating and Consuming Web Services With PHP
Find out how to create XML-RPC, SOAP and REST web services using PHP, the most popular scripting language for web applications.
[webservices.xml.com]
PHP Foundations
Using MySQL from PHP, Part 2
One of PHP's prime benefits is its close integration with databases, especially MySQL. Having explained the basics of MySQL, John Coggeshall turns his attention to demonstrating how to use MySQL from PHP. This week, learn how to count results, handle errors, and handle picky details.
[PHP DevCenter]
Database Templates with MySQL After designing a few databases for clients, you'll likely start to see design similarities. Why not exploit those patterns to create templates for further customization? Russell Dyer demonstrates how to create and customize generic MySQL table templates. [ONLamp.com]
PHP Foundations
Using MySQL from PHP
One of PHP's prime benefits is its close integration with databases, especially MySQL. Having explained the basics of MySQL, John Coggeshall turns his attention to demonstrating how to use MySQL from PHP.
[PHP DevCenter]
Web App Security Testing with a Custom Proxy Server Assuming users will only access your web applications as you intend may be the best way to invite abuse. Attackers have tools to build bogus responses, so why not use the same techniques to toughen your own sites? Nitesh Dhanjani demonstrates how a custom proxy server can help you test the security of your web apps. [PHP DevCenter]
PHP Foundations
MySQL Crash Course, Part 3
Almost every serious web application uses a relational database to store its data. At some point, you'll have to learn how to use them. John Coggeshall explains how to make the most of the SQL SELECT statement across multiple tables.
[ONLamp.com]
Using PHP 5's SimpleXML Unless you've worked with SGML, you may find it ironic that XML can be hard to parse. Most choices boil down to event-based parsing, bulky tree-walking, or writing more XML. The upcoming PHP 5 has another option, SimpleXML, that can take the pain out of simple and common XML uses. Adam Trachtenberg explains. [PHP DevCenter]
PHP Foundations
MySQL Crash Course, Part 2
Almost every serious web application uses a relational database to store its data. At some point, you'll have to learn how to use it. John Coggeshall explains how to change tables, select only the data you want, and delete rows from MySQL.
[ PHP DevCenter]
PHP Foundations
MySQL Crash Course
Almost every serious web application uses a relational database to store its data. At some point, you'll have to learn how to use them. John Coggeshall explains the basics of relational databases with MySQL.
[PHP DevCenter]
Pitfalls of Transactions with PHP Database transactions are important for data reliability and consistency. Used properly, they can prevent many types of errors. Used improperly, they can cause many other kinds of errors. Kimberlee Jensen demonstrates using transactions with PHP well. [PHP DevCenter]
You want to serialize data in WDDX format for transmission or unserialize WDDX data you've received. This allows you to communicate with anyone who speaks WDDX.
Do it now.|
|
PHP & PEAR at FOSDEM 2005 This year PHP & PEAR have a devroom at FOSDEM 2005 held in Brussels. On Sunday, 27th of February, several developers will talk about PHP & PEAR. Topics include Xdebug, eZ publish, SimpleTest, Horde and PEAR. A full schedule can be found on the FOSDEM's site. Along with giving the scheduled talks, the developers will be available during the course of the day to chat with. The devroom is also open to all who want a place to code and/or relax. We hope to see you there ! [Source: php.net] php|symphony php|architect magazine has introduced php|symphony, an ongoing series of online talks given by some of today's leaders in the PHP world. Each talk in the series features an in-depth discussion on a specific topic, such as security, enterprise development and so on. Talks are delivered entirely online using an interactive system compatible with most OSs and browsers. The series will start on February 23rd with a talk by security expert Chris Shiflett titled "Mastering PHP Security". [Source: php.net] ApacheCon Europe Call for Papers ApacheCon Europe will be held from July 18th to July 22th in Stuttgart, Germany. The conference organizers are looking for speakers willing to have a talk of any of the topics mentioned on the website. If you think that you have material for this conference and want to have a talk there, you can submit a paper here. [Source: php.net] PHP Security Consortium ApacheCon Europe will be held from July 18th to July 22th in Stuttgart, Germany. The conference organizers are looking for speakers willing to have a talk of any of the topics mentioned on the website. If you think that you have material for this conference and want to have a talk there, you can submit a paper here. An international group of PHP experts today announced the official launch of the PHP Security Consortium (PHPSC), a group whose mission is to promote secure programming practices within the PHP community through education and exposition while maintaining high ethical standards. Members of the PHPSC seek to educate PHP developers about security through a variety of resources, including documentation, tools, and standards. In addition to their educational efforts, the PHPSC engages in exploratory and experimental research in order to develop and promote standards of best practice for PHP application development. [Source: php.net] PHP Security Consortium An international group of PHP experts today announced the official launch of the PHP Security Consortium (PHPSC), a group whose mission is to promote secure programming practices within the PHP community through education and exposition while maintaining high ethical standards. Members of the PHPSC seek to educate PHP developers about security through a variety of resources, including documentation, tools, and standards. In addition to their educational efforts, the PHPSC engages in exploratory and experimental research in order to develop and promote standards of best practice for PHP application development. [Source: php.net] |
Sponsored by:
|
|
