JSLabs Blog: 5 tips for creating high performance web apps
In this new post, Justin Silverton shares a few helpful hints for creating high performance applications in PHP: use multi resultset queries to your database rather than many small ones page/object caching gzip compression tune your web server Don’t save performance testing for the end of the project Each of the items has explanation and [...]
Interspire.com: Creating a Basic Shopping List Script with PHP
Being healthy is the “new” thing around the office at Interspire. Rodney and I have taken up the challenge of Mitch and Ed and have been keeping to a strict routine of exercise and a healthy diet.
Instead of scouring the local take-aways for lunch everyday, we now pop on down to the supermarket to buy fresh produce and meats to make our own lunches. However, we always found ourselves in a situation where we would forget something. Sure we could be old fashion and make a list and put it on the office fridge, but then I asked myself, “why do that when I could whip up an online shopping list?”
Our list became a hot little item around the office, so I thought I’d spend an hour explaing how you too can build your very own shopping list with. Keep in mind that you don’t have to use this just as a shopping list – it can also be a To-Do list or practically a list of anything you need to remember.
In this article I do assume you have a small amount of PHP and MySQL experience, so if you don’t then you might have to stick to a written shopping list for now.
Vexxhost.com: Top 5 new (and cool!) features in PHP5 that you probably haven
From the Vexxhost.com blog today comes a quick overview of some of the “new and cool features” of PHP 5 that you might not have heard of – a top five list. PHP5 has brought so much new features but because of its big syntax changes, a big percentage of the PHP developing base has [...]
PHPBuilder.com: Beginning Ajax with PHP: From Novice to Professional
PHPBuilder.com has another in a series of book excerpts posted on their site today. This time, it’s a look at Ajax and PHP as pulled from the Apress book “Beginning Ajax with PHP: From Novice to Professional”. The ability to make a call to the server without a page refresh is one that is quite [...]
The Shrek Model of Web Design
Websites are like onions, you see, since websites have layers. And ogres are like onions, since ogres have layers. Websites are designed by web designers. Ergo – web designers are like ogres. So, let’s explore why web designers are like ogres. Firstly, let’s see why we say that websites are like onions, with layers, in [...]
Hiveminds: How to Bridge PHP and Java for Powerful Web Solutions
Hiveminds has published a new tutorial today that looks at bridging the gap between Java and PHP by allowing the execution of Java jar files from within PHP. Here’s how to team up two of the most popular and powerful platforms for web development together. With the php-java bridge you can build classes and jar [...]
php|architect: November 2006 Issue Released
The latest edition of php|architect magazine has been published – the November 2006 issue. Articles included in this month’s edition include: “Services made simple with PHP” – Caroline Maynard, Graham Charters, Matthew Peters, Megan Beynon, and Simon Laws “Tune Your Search Results With Ajax” – Will Fitch and Greg Black “Synchronizing the World” – Sherman [...]
Devshed: A Login System for a PHP Email Application
DevShed continues on with their creation of an email application series with part two of the series – a look at the creation of the login system for the app. We know from the previous article that the user ID is very important, in that it is used to retrieve various information from the database [...]
php|architect: Zend Framework – A Practical Tutorial
On php|architect’s site, in wake of the Zend Framework preview release previously, they’ve posted a step-by-step tutorial on how to get it installed, work it it, and ultimately create a simple news application. The Zend Framework has been unveiled! Although it is still in the early stages of development, this tutorial highlights some of the [...]
5 Web Design Tips You Can Not Live Without
The web design world is filled with excitement and experience, creativity and skill. Often, experienced web designers utilize a set of solid, proven techniques that others may not notice. Let’s take a look at a few of these techniques and how you can implement them into your own site quickly and easily. 1. Combating Internet [...]
