Dev Shed - September 25th, 2006
If you re one of those PHP developers who want to explore the package of classes that come bundled with the Standard PHP Library SPL then fear not because you re at the right place. Welcome to the concluding part of the series A Close Look at the DirectoryIterator Class in PHP 5. In three parts this series introduces the most important methods attached to this class and shows you how to use them by mean of extensive hands-on examples….
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PHP Developer - September 25th, 2006
On the Zend Developer Zone today, Cal Evans has another of his interviews with the speakers at various PHP conferences, this time, it’s with Theo Schlossnagle of OmniTi.
This is another in a series of interviews I’ve been conducting as I travel to different conferences. Most of the people I get the chance to interview are directly involved with PHP in some way. This interview is a bit different. Theo Schlossnagle is the founder of OmniTI, one of the premier PHP consulting companies in the world. OmniTI consults with companies all around the globe on issues ranging from architecture to security.
Cal asks questions about the background of OmniTI, how they find/retain programmers, Messaging Systems, Theo’s book, scaling in general, and some of his thoughts on what PHP still has to overcome.
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PHP Developer - September 25th, 2006
On the ThinkingPHP blog today, Felix Geisendörfer shows, based on some of his own personal work, how to make printing simpler inside of a CakePHP application.
The web site I currently work on is going to be for the hotel where my step father is the manager of. One of the things that is going to be an important ‘feature’ for the site, is to make it printer friendly.
Since the new site has a very clean markup, I thought about simply creating an additonal style sheet for the media type “print”. However, after thinking about it a little bit more today, I came to to the conclusion that I’m dealing with WYSIWYG visitors. So I decided to get a little fancier, and to create a PrintController, which would output printable versions of any site requested by /print/*
He gives the code for the controller and for the easy to use link to go over to the “printable version” of each page, hiding the none-printable information from the browser.
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