Posted in PHP Resources on Saturday, February 18th, 2006
Easily one of the most important resources I have ever added to this website, more so if you work with PHP. Some of these are maybe not so evident but they are, for the most part, essential best practises.
Posted in PHP Resources on Tuesday, November 22nd, 2005
A nice little walk thru of the cURL functions in PHP, what they can do and how to use them. Compliments nicely the API series here on Fiftyfoureleven.com.
Posted in PHP Resources on Tuesday, March 21st, 2006 | Via
Here's a huge list of links for the PHP developer, with links for the beginner and upwards level user, this should keep a person reading for a few weekends at least.
News, security, 3rd party services like e-bay and paypal and debugging and profiling among the topics in the list.
Posted in PHP Resources on Friday, April 18th, 2008 | Via
Our CMS handles Iñtërnâtiônàlizætiøn out of the box, or so I thought. Lately on one server I've noticed some issues which I'll have to dig into, and this brought me to the PHP UTF-8 cheatsheet. This little guide provides some steps of common things to do to get utf-8 working in php. Be sure to scroll thru the comments as there are many good links and pieces of advice left by other readers of this post.
Posted in PHP Resources on Saturday, November 12th, 2005 | Via
No shortage of MVC based PHP frameworks out there, as this resource shows. If you're in the market, go take a few for a test drive...
Posted in PHP Resources on Monday, March 6th, 2006 | Via
I can't say that I agree with everything in this article, but it is a good read - including some of the comments - if you want to keep your head open to new methods (no pun intended) and ideas.
This bit in particular caught my attention: Stay with procedural style unless something is truly an object
. This is good advice, I find too many people (scripts?) using objects for everything and anything, resulting in unnecessary complexity.
Posted in PHP Resources on Friday, February 25th, 2005
An excellent piece by Harry Fuecks that looks at getting your PHP talking to the client with Javascript.
Written long before the Ajax hype, he touches on synchronous vs. asynchronous calls before getting into the mechanisms that can bridge the client/server gap, such as "Tricks with HTML src attributes", commonly iframes, and the XMLHttpRequest object.
He then covers data exchange methods, population, and touches on XML-RPC in PHP and Javascript. Worth a read, and dive into the comments for some decent feedback and links too.
Posted in PHP Resources on Saturday, January 22nd, 2005
Paul Hudson has written a complete PHP programming book and published it online. 26 chapters, covering basic to advanced topics in addition to coding up some simple applications.
Posted in PHP Resources on Saturday, February 19th, 2005 | Via
Covering ideas from image generation to url manipulation to caching and even xmlHTTPRequest and email handling, this 47 page slide show introduces some of the fun stuff that PHP can do.
Posted in PHP Resources on Thursday, February 24th, 2005
An introduction to the trigger_error function in PHP, outlining how you can use this along with display_errors to avoid showing users embarrassing error messages on live sites, and instead pop the errors into a log with log_errors.
Posted in PHP Resources on Monday, February 28th, 2005
Lachlan Donald has a look at PHP's Eval, citing some dos and donts and provides some links to good usage examples. As usual with Sitepoint blog posts, the comments are useful as well.
Posted in PHP Resources on Friday, March 11th, 2005 | Via
Here's a solution to a problem that many people have run into: getting MS Access databases into mySQL in a pain free way. There are commercial answers, but this method, using PHP and ODBC (and some other tools), is one of those solutions that, when you were googling for an answer, you just thought should have existed.
Posted in PHP Resources on Thursday, March 24th, 2005
Harry Fuecks provides a look at the Model, View Controller (MVC) method for constructing web applications. I can't say that I've seen too many write-ups about MVC from a PHP point of view.
The article may be a bit complex for some, but the concepts are important and can (should?) be applied to more simple applications as well.
Posted in PHP Resources on Friday, May 27th, 2005 | Via
Mojavi is an open-source MVC (model-view-controller) PHP framework, somplete with an FAQ, a wiki and a forum, and even development consulting services. It is licensed under the LGPL, and they are working on a PHP 5 version.
Posted in PHP Resources on Monday, May 30th, 2005
A PHP cheat sheet that will help keep me from using my PHP bookmarklet when I forget common syntaxes, formats and function names.
Posted in PHP Resources on Wednesday, May 25th, 2005
An overview of data input validation that includes examples and links to some PHP libraries. Basic stuff that many people miss when building their first few PHP apps.
