We all know Kevin Yank is a pretty smart guy. Now’s your chance to see if you’re as smart as Kev, by taking the PHP & MySQL Quiz (which accompanies his new book “PHP &... Read More
PHP & MySQL Tutorials
” … Just as PHP and MySQL have grown from the young upstarts of the web development world into mature, stable platforms for billion-dollar businesses, this book that I’ve been writing... Read More
Kevin Yank’s done it again! He’s just completed a new 2012 edition of his best-selling book (Build Your Own Database Driven Web Site, 4th Edition) which is now titled - PHP &... Read More
Are you up to speed with Phar, WordPress plugin debelopment, building web services using PHP and SOAP, the Observer Pattern, and persistence agnosticism?Read More
Panayotis Matsinopolouos continues his account of how his company set up a successful MySQL Master-Slave configuration. This is the second of two parts.Read More
There are very good reasons for setting up Master-Slave MySQL replication, not least being able to run backups off the Slave without impeding the performance of the Master. Panayotis Matsinopoulos... Read More
Craig explains how you can write your own random number generator in PHP - and why you'd want to do that given that PHP has its own random generation functions.Read More
Web applications usually follow a synchronous communication model. However, non-interactive and long-running tasks (such as report generation) are better suited for asynchronous execution. One way... Read More
If you’ve ever tried to read code written by someone other than yourself (who hasn’t?), you know it can be a daunting task. A jumble of “spaghetti code” mixed with numerous oddly named... Read More
Ok, so you’re pretty comfortable with using the Zend Framework, specifically the use of Forms. Along with that, you have a good working knowledge of how to combine a host of standard validators... Read More
Phing is a PHP project build tool based on Apache Ant. A build system helps you to perform a group of actions using a single command. If you’re wondering why PHP needs a build tool, consider a... Read More
Phing is a PHP project build tool based on Apache Ant. A build system helps you to perform a group of actions using a single command. If you’re wondering why PHP needs a build tool, consider a... Read More
Did you know there are over 4 billion mobile phones in use today ? Here in Australia, we have a population of approximately 11 million people and over 22 million mobile phones – that’s an... Read More
