• Community News: PHP Group Responds to Google's "Speed Tips" Recommendations

    Updated: 2009-06-27 19:55:56
    Right along with some of the other posts about the "best practices" that Google "recently post, the PHP group has also responded to dispel some of the recommendations Google gives. With regards to the new article posted at , all of the advice in it is completely incorrect. We at the PHP team would like to offer some thoughts aimed at debunking these claims, which the author has clearly not verified. The group through each of the five things Google recommends and tells why they are incorrect including the fact that, while some of the recommendations might have been true back in PHP3, they aren't at all true of the current PHP5 releases.

  • Site News: Job Postings for the week of 06.21.2009

    Updated: 2009-06-27 13:02:20
    Job postings for the past week:Job Posting: Association of American Medical Colleges Seeks Sr Software Engineer (Washington, DC) Job Posting: Jadu Seeks Jadu Developer (Leicester, UK) Job Posting: Comsys (Recruiter) Seeks PHP Developer (Plano, TX)

  • php|architect Blog: Confessions of a Hiring Manager: Get my attention, Get a Job

    Updated: 2009-06-26 23:32:31
    If you're a developer out there and are looking for that next job (contract or otherwise), you might check out this advice from Cal Evans as to what he, a hiring manager in the past, has looked for in a developer's resume. am often asked to take a look at friends resume to give pointers on how that can make it more effective. Invariably, my advice is the same, so I'll share it here. When I was a manager and in charge of hiring, your resume had to get my attention for me to even consider it. If you got my attention, you had a much better chance at getting the job. That's the secret: get my attention, and get the job. He points out that the usual situation is one manager to a large group of applicants. You may see the job post once, but so do 30 other people and you're all trying to grab attention. What's his recommendation? Brevity. Keep the first page short then dive deep behind that. There's more great tips in the rest of the post.

  • Zend Developer Zone: Accepting Credit Card Payments with OXID eShop CE and Authorize.Net

    Updated: 2009-06-26 22:48:14
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  • SitePoint PHP Blog: A Note on Google's So-called Best Practices

    Updated: 2009-06-26 21:54:43
    : : News Feed Jobs Feed Sections Tutorials Books Events Talks Jobs Recent Jobs Job Posting : Jadu Seeks Jadu Developer Leicester , UK Job Posting : Comsys Recruiter Seeks PHP Developer Plano , TX Job Posting : Center for Stem Cell Biology at Vanderbilt Seeks Analyst Programmer Nashville , TN Job Posting : Atmos Energy Seeks Application Developer Dallas , TX Job Posting : NWREL Seeks Online Technology Developer Portland , OR Job Posting : Spartan Resources , LLC Recruiter Seeks PHP Applications Developer Charlotte , NC Job Posting : The Healthy City Project Seeks Web Developer PHP Programmer Job Posting : Viveli Seeks Software Engineer Computer Programmer Schaumburg , IL Job Posting : CMI Recruiter Seeks Web Developer Northern New Jersey Job Posting : AdKnowledge Seeks Senior Developer Kansas City , KS News Archive Community News : PHP Group Responds to Google's Speed Tips Recommendations Site News : Job Postings for the week of 06.21.2009 php|architect Blog : Confessions of a Hiring Manager : Get my attention , Get a Job Zend Developer Zone : Accepting Credit Card Payments with OXID eShop CE and Authorize.Net SitePoint PHP Blog : A Note on Google's So-called Best Practices Paul

  • Make Me Pulse Blog: Connect to Active Directory LDAP with PHP

    Updated: 2009-06-26 17:17:07
    On the "Make Me Pulse" blog today Ludovic Hindryckx has a bit of code he's shared to let you connect PHP to an Active Directory server (via an LDAP connection). Today we are going to see how to make an authentication with PHP and an Active Directory LDAP (AD). [...] This code sample has been tested on a Windows 2k3 server. The script calls the ldap_connect connect function with the user-submitted username and password and runs a bind (as the user) and searches for an account with the same name. If the information is found, it returns back to the $info variable to be checked.

  • Stefan Mischook's Blog: PHP Video: Controllers in MVC

    Updated: 2009-06-26 16:26:05
    Stefan Mischook is back with another video in his series. This time he looks at a part of the Model/View/Controller framework - the Controller. In this video, I talk a little about the MVC design pattern with special attention to the middle layer in MVC: the 'controller'. [...] The Controller is the part that brokers the communication between the View and the Model. If you like the video and want to see more, check out the PHP videos section of his website.

  • NETTUTS.com: Easy Development With CodeIgniter

    Updated: 2009-06-26 15:30:29
    This new screencast from NETTUTS.com introduces you to the CodeIgniter framework and helps you build a small sample application to see where all the pieces fit. In this week's 30 minute screencast, I'm going to show you how easy it is to work with the MVC pattern and CodeIgniter. This video is aimed at beginners who have no experience with a PHP framework. For demonstration purposes, we'll be building a simple image upload utility. We'll then perform some validation, save the file to our uploads folder, and automatically create a respective thumbnail. You can check out the screencast in-page or just download the source and get started.

  • PHP 10.0 Blog: PHP performance tips from Google

    Updated: 2009-06-26 14:43:15
    In this new post to the PHP 10.0 blog Stas has some responses to the recent suggestions from Google as to how to optimize your applications. There are a bunch of advices there, some of them are quite sound, if not new '" like use latest versions if possible, profile your code, cache whatever can be cached, etc. Some are of doubtful value '" like the output buffering one, which could be useful in some situations but do nothing or be worse in others, and if you're a beginner generally it's better for you to leave it alone until you've solved the real performance problems. He mentions four things that need amending from what Google suggests: Don't copy variables for no reason Avoid doing SQL queries within a loop. Use single-quotes for long strings Use switch/case instead of if/else

  • Paul Jones' Blog: Scalable Internet Architecture

    Updated: 2009-06-26 06:05:04
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  • Using Apache2 ITK Multi-Processing Module on Linux

    Updated: 2009-06-25 18:07:59
    Those familiar with configuring Apache and PHP to run together, have been introduced to the idea of Apache’s Multi-Processing Modules ( MPM ). Basically Apache2 allows you to use different methodologies in how it manages the various connections coming in. One of the more efficient methods uses threads; however, when running PHP you’ve been restricted to using the prefork MPM module since some extensions are not written in a way that will enable work in thread safe mode.

  • PHP and Java: Using Java Print Service with Zend Server Community Edition

    Updated: 2009-06-24 21:42:09
    : Zend Developer Zone Advancing the art of PHP Login Register Contribute Username : Password : Processing login . Please wait . Home Articles Tutorials Podcasts News Events Forums PHP Manual Quick Links Get PHP Zend Home Page Zend Framework Zend Server CE Zend Server Zend Studio Zend Guard php|architect PHP Podcasts Loading feed Loading feed Loading feed Java Zend Server PHP and Java : Using Java Print Service with Zend Server Community Edition kschroeder 2 comments Wednesday , June 24, 2009 PHP and Java : Using Java Print Service with Zend Server Community Edition If one were to survey the extensions available in PHP one might come to the conclusion that we actually lived in a paperless society . However , we all know that isn’t true . So why does PHP not have good printer support One option that explains why this might be the case is simply that printing documents is contrary to what PHP does well handle short requests as quickly as possible . Printing is not conducive to this . But what if you still need to have printing support in your PHP application With Zend Server Zend’s integrated PHP application stack , the answer might be not what you were expecting . Use the PHP Java

  • php|architect: CodeWorks '09 Summer Webcast Series

    Updated: 2009-06-24 08:30:40
    php|architect has kicked off another webcast series starting June 26th with ten great content-packed episodes leading up to the CodeWorks conference that are completely free to attend!

  • Zend Framework 1.8.4 Released

    Updated: 2009-06-23 21:16:38
    The Zend Framework team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the 1.8.4 release. This release is the fourth maintenance release in the 1.8 series. Over 50 issues have been resolved for this release, covering 20 different components.

  • The ZendCon Sessions Episode 21: PDO: PHP Data Objects

    Updated: 2009-06-23 19:31:54
    Presenting the latest edition of The ZendCon Sessions. The podcast that rebroadcasts sessions/talks from the last ZendCon PHP Conference. This episode of The ZendCon Sessions was recorded live at ZendCon 2008 in Santa Clara, CA and features Wez Furlong giving his talk: “ PDO : PHP Data Objects”

  • Another Flickr service approach with Zend

    Updated: 2009-06-23 15:44:25
    With most of the Flickr services available they are wrappers for the Flickr API. Therefore I thought I should make a more logical implementation, more O/R like. It's available now under the new BSD license and works like a charm ;)

  • Dutch PHP Conference 2009 Wrap-up

    Updated: 2009-06-23 15:05:14
    I think I'm the last attendee to write up my experiences at the Dutch PHP Conference 2009 (DPC) this year (Due to being swamped with ZendCon planning). But I wanted to make sure that I didn't miss the chance altogether.

  • PHP’s Forecast: Partly Cloudy

    Updated: 2009-06-23 02:48:28
    You’ve probably heard about ‘the cloud’. It’s the latest buzzword circulating in Silicon Valley and beyond. In some ways, ‘cloud’ is a fitting name- everyone sees something different when they look at it. For example, offerings as dissimilar as force.com and Amazon’s MapReduce service have worked their way in to ‘the cloud’ moniker at some point. Even the cloud’s biggest advocates can’t agree on what ‘the cloud’ is. But in teasing the facts out of all the hype, you’ll find some services that could change how you write and deploy your PHP applications forever.

  • Rob Allen's Blog: Some notes on Zend Server CE for Mac OS X

    Updated: 2009-06-22 19:28:36
    Rob Allen has a new post with some tips for those using the Zend Server Community Edition on OS X. While the Server installs a lot of the necessary software, there's still a few changes in the configuration and extra software he wanted - PHPUnit and Xdebug.

  • Benjamin Eberlei's Blog: Using a Dependency Injection Container with Zend_Application

    Updated: 2009-06-17 19:09:35
    New on his blog today Benjamin Eberlei has posted his own look at dependency injection containers in PHP applications, specifically with the Zend_Application component of the Zend Framework .

  • Jeroen Keppens on: Creating a modular application with Zend Framework

    Updated: 2009-06-17 08:03:14
    On his blog, Jeroen Keppens writes about his love of modular design philosophies, and how one can do modular based design, using Zend Framework and Zend_Tool

  • The ZendCon Sessions Episode 20: Distribution and Publication With Atom Web Services

    Updated: 2009-06-11 13:24:00
    Presenting the latest edition of The ZendCon Sessions. The podcast that rebroadcasts sessions/talks from the last ZendCon PHP Conference. This episode of The ZendCon Sessions was recorded live at ZendCon 2008 in Santa Clara, CA and features Ben Ramsey giving his talk: “Distribution and Publication With Atom Web Services”

  • Rafael Dohms' Blog: SPL: a hidden gem

    Updated: 2009-06-11 09:00:24
    Earlier this month Rafael Dohms posted a new article to his blog looking at a feature of PHP it seems not every developer knows about - the Standard PHP Library (or SPL).

  • The ZendCon Sessions Episode 19: Static and Dynamic Analysis at Ning

    Updated: 2009-06-04 16:45:32
    Presenting the latest edition of The ZendCon Sessions. The podcast that rebroadcasts sessions/talks from the last ZendCon PHP Conference. This episode of The ZendCon Sessions was recorded live at ZendCon 2008 in Santa Clara, CA and features David Sklar giving his talk: “Static and Dynamic Analysis at Ning”

  • Using JavaScript in PHP with PECL and SpiderMonkey

    Updated: 2009-06-03 08:55:52
    Zend Developer Zone Advancing the art of PHP Login Register Contribute Username : Password : Processing login . Please wait . Home Articles Tutorials Podcasts News Events Forums PHP Manual Quick Links Get PHP Zend Home Page Zend Framework Zend Server CE Zend Server Zend Studio Zend Guard php|architect PHP Podcasts Loading feed Loading feed Loading feed JavaScript PECL SpiderMonkey Tutorials Using JavaScript in PHP with PECL and SpiderMonkey Vikram Vaswani 4 comments Wednesday , June 3, 2009 The Good Old Days Not too long ago , it seemed like there was a pretty clear distinction between client-side technologies and server-side technologies . Languages like PHP , Perl and Python resided on the server , taking care of tasks like database connectivity , transaction management and remote procedure calls , while tools like JavaScript , CSS and HTML were used exclusively on the client to render pages , perform whizzy effects and respond to user . events Things aren't that clear any longer . Projects like Jaxer and Phobos are blurring these distinctions , by making it possible to run JavaScript on the server and use it for tasks ranging from server-side file access to input validation .

  • Community News: PHPNW '09 Conference Date Announced - Oct 10th

    Updated: 2009-06-03 08:11:50
    For those in the Manchester, UK area (or really anyone willing to travel up there for a day), you'll be happy to know that the schedule has been set for this year's PHP North West conference - October 10th!

  • US and Canadian PHP Developers Needed For Marketing Survey

    Updated: 2009-06-02 08:57:50
    Freelance author Esther Shindler is looking for help from the PHP community. She has a short survey that she is asking US and Canadian developers to fill out. Respondents that meet their profile may be asked for a phone interview. Here is your chance to help shape how people see the PHP community.

  • Zend Framework - "Location, Location Location!"

    Updated: 2009-06-01 21:54:12
    Some best practices on how best to organize your project, when you are using Zend Framework. Specifically, just where should you be putting the Zend Framework Source Code? What differences about your specific application and environment would make you chose the various options that exist, such as putting in inside of your application, or up at the system/library level?

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