On DZone.com today Girogio Sironi shares some of his experiences testing out the PHP bindings currently offered to work with Selenium, the web application frontend testing tool that’s become a standard over the past few years. After trying out Selenium 2, it was natural for me to look for its support in PHP code; however, [...]
Lorna Mitchell has a quick new post showing one way to handle SQL errors in PDO that could pop up because of badly written/generated SQL statements. I love PHP’s PDO (PHP Data Objects) extension; it gives a consistent, object-oriented interface to handling all kinds of relational database backends. One thing that annoys me is that [...]
If you’re a Zend Studio user and have been wondering how to hook it directly into the phpcloud service from Zend, Kevin Schroeder has posted complete instructions in a new post today (complete with screenshots). PHPCloud.com is the landing page for our new cloud offering. Using the Zend Application Fabric you can build your applications [...]
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php|architect has officially announced the speaker line up for what they call their “Cloud Summit”, a day-long event happening at the end of November about cloud computing – what it is and how you and your PHP applications can take advantage of it. Tired of hearing about the ever-so… nebulous “Cloud” and what vendors say [...]
As a reminder, the PHP UK Conference (2012) still has their “Blind Bird” tickets on sale until the 4th of December for £90: Purchase blindbird 2012 conference registration(s) for Friday 24th and/or Saturday 25th February – available at this price until 4th December 2011. After this time the earlybird 2012 conference registration for Friday 24th [...]
In a follow up to his previous post about how PHP is broken (and what can be done to fix it), Court Ewing has this new post with a few suggestions on how PHP development could be better, but admits that PHP itself is not broken. It is no secret that the PHP development process [...]
The catchy theme/motto of the PECL/mysqlnd_ms 1.2 release will be Global Transaction ID support. Hidden behind the buzzword are two features. We will allow users to request a certain level of service from the replication cluster (keyword: consistency) and we will do basic global transaction ID injection to help …
On the php|architect site there’s a recent tutorial from Jeremy Kendall about full-text searching in SQLite, a lightweight database alternative that, since it’s stored locally, can be used without a full database server. Full-text search with SQLite is so ridiculously easy to implement, there are only two valid reasons you haven’t done it yet. The [...]
