Archive for December 4th, 2006
PHP Developer - December 4th, 2006
On the Shadow Fox Network today, they’ve posted parts one and two of their look at building a better blogging system.
In part one, they talk about things where all good projects should start - with the planning and what it will take to get the project done. This includes the structure of the application, the usability, and the extensions you’ll want to use.
Part two goes a step further into the planning stage by looking specifically at the design and usability of the application. They start with the base HTML and add some styling and images to make it easier to use.
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PHP Developer - December 4th, 2006
The Zend Developer Zone is continuing on from previous parts of a series in this new tutorial posted today - part three of the “Ajax Chat Tutorial” tutorial series.
As our chat application gathers pace we return to the server side of the application. At this point we have setup the Zend Framework with an IndexController class to handle server requests. When we receive a new chat message from the user, we will need to store it. For this tutorial I’ve selected a file based solution using XML.
They start with a look at the storage method - XML on the backend, pushed into a MySQL database (along with the message format). There’s a quick refresher on SimpleXML before they show how to integrate this storage method into the current system.
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PHP Developer - December 4th, 2006
DevShed has started a small series today that seeks to guide you through the world of SQLite as is interfaced through PHP5.
If you use PHP 5 to build web-based applications that access a database, you might want to consider SQLite. A “lighter” option than MySQL, this database may still suit your purposes if you don’t need all of MySQL’s bells and whistles. This three-part series covers many of SQLite’s most useful features.
Their post today, part one talks about the basics of the protocol and how to get started with it in PHP5. Since it’s enabled by default, the chances of it being on your installation are great. They only really look at grabbing data from the database in this part, saving pushing data back in for another time.
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Dev Shed - December 4th, 2006
If you use PHP 5 to build web-based applications that access a database you might want to consider SQLite. A lighter option than MySQL this database may still suit your purposes if you don t need all of MySQL s bells and whistles. This three-part series covers many of SQLite s most useful features….
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PHP Developer - December 4th, 2006
Pierre-Alain Joye has posted several new updates concerning the packages he works on - Zip and a new offering, htscanner.
The first two concern the htscanner package - first, the initial release of the extension that works to emulate htaccess support for non-Apache web servers (like FastCGI or lighttpd). The second related post notes that that Windows binaries for the functionality are also posted on the pecl4win website.
Next on his list were some update to the Zip PECL package, a fix to correct issues found when using PHP versions 5.1.0, 5.1.1, and 5.1.2 (due to an internal function name issue).
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