The PHP North West User Group ran it’s 4th (and largest yet!) PHP conference – PHPNW11 in Manchester last weekend. This year, many of the sponsors were here not to drum up new business, but to hire new talent, continuing a trend from PHPUK11 earlier in the year. Sponsoring a conference is cheaper than paying [...]
Google URL Shortener PHP Class By Eslam Mahmoud This article describes how to use the Google URL Shortener PHP class to create a short URL with the goo.gl service. It also explains how to achieve the opposite, i.e. take a goo.gl short URL, retrieve the respective long URL, as well obtaining analytics information about the [...]
It is the third day I try to find mysqlnd plugin use cases for the Succeed with Plugins webinar on October, 26th. Not being innovative or creative today, I looked into a classic: client fail over. As a trained and talented reader, you won’t be shocked to see 54 lines …
The PHP North West User Group ran it’s 4th (and largest yet!) PHP conference – PHPNW11 in Manchester last weekend. The audience is a key part of any conference, and each year the PHP North West conference manages to attract more and more people back as it establishes its reputation for being one of the [...]
Kevin Schroeder has posted about an idea he recently came across (in this article) called the “Curve of Talent”. Kevin’s post expands on the idea and makes it a bit more relevant to the “how can I be a better developer” question asked quite often. I get asked, quite frequently, about how people can be [...]
Till Klampaeckel has a new post today looking at a solution for a common need – paginating through results as pulled from a database. With the help of the Zend_Db_Table and Zend_Paginator components of the Zend Framework it’s a simple matter of passing the results into the Paginator and asking for a certain page. So [...]
Sad news today from PHPBuilder.com – Tim Perdue, the founder of the PHPBuilder.com site and contributor to the SourceForge project as one of the original developers has passed away at 37. The PHPBuilder staff was saddened to learn that the founder of our site, Tim Perdue, passed away on September 16 , 2011, after a [...]
On the ZendCasts.com site there’s a new screencast posted looking at autoloading in phar, the packaging tool built into PHP. This is a continuation of the series started here. Building on the foundation from the previous screencast, he shows how to enhance it and allow it to autoload based on an autoloader defined in a [...]
In this new tutorial from Script-Tutorials.com they show you how to combine PHP, jQuery, MySQL and XML to create an auto-complete box with drop-down suggestions. Today I have new article for PHP. I will tell you about implementation autocomplete for your sites. Data can be located in different sources – directly in the JS code, [...]
