by Cal Evans · December 5, 2011

Processing credit cards is hard. I mean really, really hard. For someone like me who manages his own server, writes his own code, and tries to keep all the balls in the air, the idea of maintaining a PCI-compliant server gives me the heebie-jeebies. I’ve looked at other systems and as much as I hate [...]

by Cal Evans · October 11, 2011

I’ve heard a lot of people compare PHP to a Swiss Army Knife. You know the ones, 5 blades, a corkscrew, a saw…and the obligatory toothpick that you will lose so you might as well take it out now and just throw it away. Why anyone would consider PHP to be like this is beyond me.

by Beth Tucker Long · October 5, 2011

I was recently reminded of a talk I heard back in 2008 at php|works in Atlanta. Eric David Benari gave a great talk on usability and accessibility for sites, and even though this was quite a while ago, the talk topic remains relevant today. One of the main things that I got out of that [...]

by Cal Evans · October 4, 2011

Down the Rabbit Hole The moment you’ve been waiting for, let’s dive into the code. The application has two basic functions, the first is the login and the second is to fetch sales numbers. Since those are very different, we will need two different controllers. While we are only concentrating on the actual code necessary [...]

by Marco Tabini · March 17, 2011

We’re saying goodbye to paper, and getting ready to say hello to a whole lot of digital coolness.

by Marco Tabini · March 1, 2011

If you are a magazine subscriber who has logged into their account recently, you may have noticed that you are now seeing two new options for downloading the magazine. We are very happy to announce that in addition to our PDF edition, we are now offering an ePUB edition and a MOBI edition. These two [...]

by Joshua Thijssen · February 23, 2011

You may not be familiar with the term RRD graph, but if I show you one, you probably recognize them instantaneously. They are used to plot all kind of data against time in a very easy way which is why they are used a lot in all kind of applications. Even though many consider RRD as a library to create graphs, it is actually more than that: it’s a complete system to store aggregated data in a very efficient way.

by Cal Evans · December 10, 2010

Today, the PHP community mourns the passing of a friend. Three weeks ago Richard Thomas, community member and friend to all who knew him passed away.

by Marco Tabini · October 9, 2010

The wonderful PHP Northwest 2010 conference took place last weekend in Manchester, UK, and our Marco Tabini was present to keynote Lorna Jane Mitchell’s keynote “Teach a man to fish.” Here’s the transcript from the event (powered by Blue Parabola’s upcoming live-blogging system Broadr).