php[architect]

by Aaron Rosenfeld

Have you ever wanted to send and receive text messages with your PHP scripts, only to be dissuaded by the astounding price third parties charge to facilitate the exchange? How would you like to learn about a free method of utilizing existing SMS gateways?

by Simon Harris

Zend Platform is a unique product, and one which promises the kind of reliability, scalability and monitoring features demanded by all but the smallest businesses. In a sense, the Platform is Zend's attempt to answer once and for all the question of whether PHP is truly enterprise ready—in the affirmative.

by Cameron Jacobson

In this article I will demonstrate some techniques I'm using for a project I put together. The general concept I will cover is HTTP streaming, with a specific focus toward my implementation of a solution to monitor the health of a working system.

by Ivo Jansch

A few months ago php|architect featured a series of articles called //"A Refactoring Diary"//. They were written by Bart McLeod, and discussed his efforts to implement a CMS using various frameworks. One of the frameworks Bart looked at was the ATK framework, and he compared it to symfony and the Zend Framework. I was a bit surprised, since symfony and the Zend Framework are usually positioned in a wholly different league, but I was happy with the exposure it generated. This month, php|architect allowed me to dive a little deeper into the ATK framework.

by Steph Fox

Is today's web programmer going the way of yesterday's electronic engineer?

by Matt Zandstra

A while back, Matt wrote an article for php|architect about a tool he invented with his team at Yahoo! It's called Stickleback, (or maybe stickleback without the leading capital letter—no-one can quite agree) and it is a plugin engine. In that article, he focused on the command line interface; this time, he's going to write about stickleback for the Web.

by Sam McCallum

Have you ever wished there was an easy, unobtrusive way for your application to talk to you, your company or your customers? Maybe Twitter is that way. Imagine if your freshly launched subscription site gave a tweet for every new signup. How about when someone adds a post, or makes a comment on the blog—or logs into the server? Using Twitter, you can give your application or server the ability to talk to a target audience.

by Marco Tabini

Can you guess what the worst application ever written was? Here's a hint: strangely, Marco didn't write it.