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Jul 21, 2010

PHPDOCX: generating Word documents from PHP

PHPDOCX is a PHP library that allows its client code to generate Microsoft Word documents in the .docx format from PHP s...

Jul 15, 2010

Ext4Yii, bridging PHP and JavaScript frameworks together

Ext JS Ext JS is a (client-side) JavaScript library created for coding Rich Internet Applications. Nowadays no one uses...

Jul 9, 2010

Modsecurity: Why it matters to PHP

There is a new book released that should be in the libraries of web application developers everywhere. The title? ModSec...

Jul 8, 2010

Never Use $_GET Again

You don’t need to use $_GET or $_POST anymore. In fact, you probably shouldn’t use $_GET and $_POST anymore. Since PHP...

Jun 25, 2010

Zend Db 2.0 Kicks Off

Ralph Schindler has started the ball rolling on requirements for Zend Db for Zend Framework 2.0.  He announced on the Z...

Jun 24, 2010

Simplicity made complicated: character encoding

Back in the twentieth century, when I was young and tender in university, I had my first experience with the Internet, a...

Jun 23, 2010

Open source life style

Open source is a life style. -- Michelangelo Van Dam Some developers identify open source with weekends spent coding and...

Jun 17, 2010

Bing Powered 404 for non-WordPress websites

Ok, after my last post on using the Bing Search Wrapper for handing 404 errors in WordPress I had several people tell me...

Jun 14, 2010

PHP: the teenage years

For some value of the word “turned,” PHP just turned fifteen. Wow. I still vaguely remember when I turned fifteen—“rebe...

Jun 14, 2010

How I learned to stop worrying and love the wizard - Part 3

In part 1, we discussed how to use the new Flash Builder 4 Data Connection Wizard to connect to a PHP API. We used FB4's...

Jun 9, 2010

The state of PHP 5.3 support

PHP 5.3 introduced namespaces and anonymous functions to the PHP world, which are surely great innovations for this prog...

Jun 8, 2010

PHP tours Europe in fall

If you wanted to take PHP's pulse, take its temperature and measure the pressure in its veins one great place to look wo...

Jun 7, 2010

Zend Framework 2.0 inches closer to completion

It has been a while since we've received any significant news in regard to Zend Framework 2.0. The last time we discus...

Jun 7, 2010

Callbacks in ActionScript

This post is going to be long on code. That means that I will spinkle little text between the code blocks to explain wh...