On ZendCasts.com today, the next part of their series looking at using the Slim microframework has been posted. This is part one of a tutorial building a JSON endpoint for a web service. You’ll need some of the base that he created in this previous screencast to follow along (the basic structure, really). His takes [...]
Fabien Potencier has made an announcement on the Symfony Blog today about all the availability of previous Symfony versions on github. symfony1 is well and alive and many developers are now using it for projects hosted on Git. But as the official symfony 1 repository is hosted on Subversion, it’s not always easy to get [...]
Using PHP-GTK to serve Web Applications to html 5 Browsers By Manuel Lemos Yes, you read it right, GTK+, the Gnome Toolkit library, normally used to create desktop applications, can now be used to serve the same applications via the Web to a browser that supports html 5 canvas objects. PHP-GTK is a PHP extension [...]
We just wrapped up the 7th ZendCon event last week in Santa Clara, and the enthusiasm of the PHP community was inspiring. PHP is gaining momentum across industries and geographies, powering the web, helping people build amazing apps with ease, proficiency and creativity. In so many ways, PHP is making a difference, from legacy modernization [...]
With some precious free time today, I sat down to read Lukas Smith’s Interfacing The PHP World. It was good timing since last night I heard someone complain, again, about tight coupling in Zend Framework so I was in a good frame of mind to digest the blog post. Before we start, tight coupling exists [...]
The PHP development team is proud to announce the second beta release of PHP 5.4. PHP 5.4 includes new language features and removes several legacy (deprecated) behaviours. Windows binaries can be downloaded from the Windows QA site. THIS IS A DEVELOPMENT PREVIEW – DO NOT USE IT IN PRODUCTION! Please help us to identify bugs [...]
Fabien Potencier of the Symfony project (framework) recently made a presentation at the Symfony Day conference and answered the question “what is Symfony2?” When I ask people what Symfony2 is for them, most of them say something along the lines of: Symfony2 is a full-stack web framework written in PHP. Some also add that this [...]
Justin Carmony has a new tutorial posted to his blog today about setting up Nginx and PHP-FPM on Ubuntu in a few easy steps (thanks to some package management). This is another wonderful setup that I’ve found myself using rather than the traditional Apache & mod_php setup. [...] Ngnix, unlike Apache, doesn’t actually load PHP. [...]
On Script-Tutorials.com there’s a new tutorial posted showing you how you can get better curves on your graphs with PHP and GD (the key is in the “CubicSplines” class, providing a few extra calculations to make “splines”, a mathematical method for smoothing out values). Today I have new article for PHP. I will tell you [...]
