Archive for November 23rd, 2006
PHP Developer - November 23rd, 2006
In this new tutorial from WebReference, they show you how to develop a simple database-enabled Ajax application in PHP.
In this article you’ll learn how to create database-enabled Ajax requests using PHP and MySQL. We begin by creating the front-end HTML and JavaScript files used to make requests to the server-side. The requested server-side is a PHP file which bridges the gap between Ajax and a PHP object that connects to a MySQL database and returns results as an XML response to the Ajax engine.
The application is a simple way to enter news postings into a database and pull them back out with this handy Javascript functionality. They also provide the complete source code for download to help you get started.
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PHP Developer - November 23rd, 2006
Chris Shiflett has posted his look back at this year’s Zend/PHP Conference & Expo on his blog today.
It has been more than two weeks since ZendCon, yet I can’t seem to manage to find the time to recap the event. (Work has been keeping me busy.) This will be brief.
In the post, he talks about the attendees, his security talk, the community deck of cards, Wez Furlong’s talk, and more. Check out his post for more info on the conference and what all went on.
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PHP Developer - November 23rd, 2006
In another part of their series of excerpts from the Zend PHP Certification Guide (from Zend), DevShed has posted this article talking about debugging and performance issues and methods.
Making mistakes is human, and so is fixing them. In your day-to-day programming adventures, it’s inevitable to introduce bugs in your PHP code, especially when you’re writing very complex applications with tens of thousands of lines of code spread across tens of files.
In this article they look at things like flattening if statements, spplitting single commands across multiple lines, and the difference between =, ==, and ===.
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PHP Developer - November 23rd, 2006
On the Enterprise PHP Magazine (part of PHP Magazine) site today, there’s a look at why Groupe Girard chose to go with PHP over J2EE to create their ERP.
Le Groupe Gerard is an european leader in furniture transportation. By choosing PHP, groupe Girard divided by ten the development time of its ERP software which using more than 400 screen. The maintenance is also much more easy. Explained Valentin Moyano, IT Director of the groupe.
They list out some of the resons why those went with PHP:
- PHP, a very permissive language
- The development time divided by ten
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