Archive for November 8th, 2006
PHP Developer - November 8th, 2006
Cal Evans, of the Zend Developer Zone, is taking a different path than the large number of Zend Framework tutorials that he’s seen out there:
Zend Framework looked like an interesting platform, but each tutorial that I read started out with explaining how to set up your front controller, and moved form there into writing an entire application. I am not starting any new projects, and have no need for that.
Instead, he’s chosen to look a bit “behind the scenes” at what really makes the Framework tick and why it would be a good choice for any number of web applications out there. It’s going to become a series on the ZDZ, so he starts it off right with a comparison between PEAR and the Zend Framework, specifically when it comes to error handling.
It’s more of a compare and contrast kind of thing than a contest, but it does seem that Cal favors one’s approach a bit more. Which one? Well, you’ll just have to go read and find out…
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PHP Developer - November 8th, 2006
For PHP developers out there interested in harnessing the power of Adobe’s Flex technology, Mike Potter has posted the perfect guide for you.
There’s not that much to it, but what it does have is great - the step by step process you’ll need to get started with all things Flex-y.
If you were listening to my talk last week at the Zend PHP Conference in San Jose, and were interested in Adobe Flex, here’s how you can get started with Flex Builder and PHP.
The steps are pretty simple - download, install, watch a demo (FlexTV! woo!), and grab the PHP RIA SDK to make the interface happen. He also recommends getting involved with some of the Adobe-based resources that are out there, including the mailing list for the SDK and the Flex Developer Center.
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Dev Shed - November 8th, 2006
In this third part of a four-part article series on building a PHP email application we will look at the index page. This page is the heart of the application. We will also look at how to handle attachments in a message and how to integrate them into this application….
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PHP Developer - November 8th, 2006
DevShed is continuing their look at the creation of an email application with the third part of the series. It looks at building the main index page of the application as well as some of the sub-pages that it links to for other features.
The index page displays the newly downloaded messages in a table with five columns. These columns list (among other things) the date, subject and from field of the messages.
They break out the actions the page takes when someone logs in/views email - grab user info, grab messages, and display the navigation panels. Since they’ve already looked at the first of the list in a previous tutorial, they cover the last two, showing how to create the navigation (and some sub-pages) and how to grab all of the messages for the currently logged in user.
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PHP Developer - November 8th, 2006
Lee Underwood shares a handy bit of software in this quick article on Developer.com - a GUI program that helps you execute your PHP scripts on Windows without the setup time of something like XAMPP.
There’s no need to install a server and PHP and then try to coordinate them in order to get them to work together. Script GUI comes in one compact package. It includes a server, which is only available to the built-in browser and is a nice security feature. In addition, it supports CGI, virtual hosts, directory aliases, custom error documents and understands most commands in .htaccess files.
He tell how it works (pretty much just install and go) and how it can be configured to work with virtual hosts. Best of all, it already comes with the latest version of PHP for Windows and can interface with several of the popular databases out there.
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