On DevShed today there’s a new tutorial showing you how to build a basic ORM layer on top of a MySQL database. It includes all the code you’ll need (cut&paste-able, not as a download). Obviously, with so many ORMs at one’s disposal for free, it seems pretty pointless to develop a custom one; are we [...]
On DZone.com there’s a new post from Giorgio Sironi looking at how to automate a build of a virtual server with Vagrant, setting up a LAMP-based development instance. Vagrant ia a tool for building virtual machines (in VirtualBox’s format) that conforms to a specification. It’s written in Ruby, but it makes really no assumptions over [...]
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As is mentioned on Michelangelo van Dam’s blog, the PHPBenelux conference for 2012 has been announced and tickets are now on sale. The PHPBenelux team only announced the names of tutorial speakers, but with names like Ivo Jansch, Torsten Rhinne, Fabien Potencier and Matthew Weier O’Phinney you know it’s going to rock! And that’s tutorials [...]
In a new post to his blog Sameer Borate shows how to create a lexer and parser in PHP to work directly with the tokens of a PHP script. After looking around for a while [for a good resource on compilers] I settled for Terence Parr’s Language Implementation Patterns. This is exactly what I needed [...]
On PHPMaster.com today there’s a new introductory tutorial for those trying to figure out sessions in PHP. Sessions can be one of the most powerful tools at your disposal and handling them correctly can sometimes be a little tricky. $_SESSION is a special array used to store information across the page requests a user makes [...]
In the past few days, the alarm has been sounded in the technology community for us to help defeat the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). This legislation, while well-intentioned, is crafted in such a way that it would give private companies the power to shut down other private companies, and require the government and Internet [...]
On the Symfony Blog today they have an update on their latest community offering, SensioLabs Connect, a service connecting Symfony developers all around the world. It’s been one week since the release and there’s already some changes happening. To celebrate our 1000th user on SensioLabs Connect in a week, we have just rolled out a [...]
One of the great things about the HTTP protocol, besides status code 418, is that it’s stateless. A web server therefore is not required to store any information on the user or allocate resources for a user after the individual request is done. By that a single web server can handle many many many different [...]
