Posts marked with “php”
Creating RRD graphs in PHP
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.
Function Contest
Custom PHP functions can solve problems, save you time and now, they can even get you free stuff!
Aspect Oriented Software Development and PHP
Recently Matthew Weier O’Phinney, Supreme Allied Commander of Zend Framework, posted on his blog “Aspects, Filters, and Signals, Oh, My!” In it he references an article published in php|architect magazine. We dug the article up and give you a link to it for free.
Analysis: Following Ruby Makes PHP Number Two
Experiments that question our conventions can help us understand those conventions better.
PHP 5.3.3 and 5.2.14 are out
July 22 has seen the release of two new versions of PHP – the innovator 5.3.x and the previous 5.2.x. There are interesting news for both these new releases.
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 scripts, or to output PDF and HTML from a given Word document.
Ext4Yii, bridging PHP and JavaScript frameworks together
Ext4Yii is one of the numerous solution to bring a JavaScript framework into a PHP one with ease.
Never Use $_GET Again
How many times have we heard about security issues in PHP applications stemming from unescaped GET and POST parameters? Proper escaping of input is a perennial problem with web development in general, and for whatever reason PHP seems to have had more than its fair share of bad publicity on this front.
The state of PHP 5.3 support
If I want to use PHP 5.3 right now on my development box or server, which platform should I choose?
