php[architect]

by Cal Evans

As you'll all know by now, Flex 2 is the best thing since sliced bread. It gives PHP developers a means of creating rich Internet applications based on a relatively simple code base. The Zend Framework is also geared up to make PHP application development a cinch. What happens when the two technologies come together? I wrote an application to find out.

by Darren Cook

There is a myth that PHP 4 and PHP 5 are not useful for working with non-European languages. The mbstring extension can dispel that myth. This two-part article will show how you can use even good old PHP 4 to do complex work in Chinese, Japanese—in fact, in any language supported by Unicode.

by Dirk Merkel

Learn how to benchmark and profile your PHP code. Find the hidden bottlenecks slowing down your application—before your clients do!

by Stephen Cook

Using fopen() to retrieve Web pages is simple, but how about when you're trying to get information from deep within an AUTH-protected website? The curl extension opens the entire World Wide Web to your PHP code. With correct usage, you can retrieve just about any page on the Internet and use it in any way you see fit.

by Jeof Oyster

It's hard to find your dream PHP job, and harder still when you go through the interview process only to hear the thud of a rejection slip landing on your doormat yet again. What does the interviewer want from you? How about looking at things from the other side of the table?

by Simon Morris

Security is a problem: there is no way around it. We would all prefer that we didn't have to code input filters and logins. Our users would prefer not having to remember a fourteen character password that has to include numbers, upper and lowercase letters, and at least one symbol. Our systems administrators would prefer not to have to store logs and user details.