Archive for August 1st, 2006
PHP Developer - August 1st, 2006
With a reminder from the Zend Developer Zone today, Cal Evans re-mentions the upcoming webcast spotlighting the new (soon to be released) PHP 5 Certification.
Join Zend’s Education Programs Manager, Dhwani Vahia, in discovering the new Zend PHP 5 Certification.
In this webcast, she will introduce the new Certification and cover: why Zend is implementing this exam, what the new exam covers, testing methodologies, upcoming support products, and more!
If you’d like to be in the know and find out all you can about this new certification, be sure to sign up and check it out on August 4th at 1PM EDT.
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PHP Developer - August 1st, 2006
Paul Jones has a very quick note on his blog today about some integration happening for the Solar framework.
Clay Loveless has started adding Prototype/Scriptaculous support in Solar as a series of view helpers. Although I’ve been calling it this in my notes for months, I wanted to share with the world my shorthand for this library combination: “Protaculous.”
Great to see a project pulling in the strengths of another to enhance its great functionality even more. Adding it into a view helper for the framework helps keep things that much more flexible.
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PHP Developer - August 1st, 2006
PHPit.net has posted part one of a new series of tutorials focusing on working with the GD graphics library inside of PHP.
In this new article series you will learn about PHP’s inbuilt image functions. In the first part you will see how to open images, display or save them, and how to write a simple image converter.
They start with a look at reading images in to start working with, in both GIF and JPEG formats. To make things simpler for life down the road, they opt to create their own simple “open_image” function that adapts to whatever kind of file it’s given and returns an image resource.
Then it’s over to the output - displaying and saving the images out to a local drive. Finally, they demonstrate how to convert images from one file type to another (as uploaded via a HTML form).
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Dev Shed - August 1st, 2006
If you re looking for a way to save time when you program look no further. Creating functions lets you reuse code that you ve used before without having to rewrite the whole thing. Keep reading to learn how….
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PHP Developer - August 1st, 2006
DevShed shares some basic PHP knowledge today with this new tutorial, an introduction to functions in PHP. This time, they’re specifically focusing on custom function creation.
If you’re looking for a way to save time when you program, look no further. Creating functions lets you reuse code that you’ve used before without having to rewrite the whole thing.
This will save you time and make programming easier, especially as websites become more complex. Another advantage of a function is that it executes wherever and whenever you call it, in the same way that print() displays text.
They start off basic, defining what a “user defined function” is before moving on to arguments in their use. They include the method to define default values and how to return values once the function is through.
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