Open-source Web applications, PHP vs. Java (Part 2 of 2)

The first part of this article reviewed some relevant open-source Web applications in both the PHP and Java worlds.

17 replies - 3669 views - 05/01/08 by Robert Enyedi in News

Open-source Web applications, PHP vs. Java (Part 1 of 2)

It is common knowledge that PHP does well in the open-source Web applications space.

24 replies - 5001 views - 04/28/08 by Robert Enyedi in News

Java, .NET, and PHP In One Webapp? The Holy Grail of Mashups.

What if you could run a single webapp with Java, PHP, and ASP.NET AJAX in one webapp?  Stay with me for a minute, because I think there might be a powerful...

1 replies - 2849 views - 04/10/08 by Matthew Schmidt in News

Watch Your POST: Save PHP POST Data as XML

One of my main goals when creating PHP web forms is to keep them secure and protected from spammers and automated bots. With the amount of spam that Akismet...

5 replies - 2031 views - 03/25/08 by David Walsh in News

Wicked Cool PHP: Real-World Scripts That Solve Difficult Problems

One of the reasons that I prefer short tutorials and articles over programming books is that books generally give you five pages of theory and one page of actual code. Many times, they assume that...

0 replies - 859 views - 03/18/08 by David Walsh in Book Reviews

Tips & Tricks of Learning Ternary Operators

I started using ternary operator logic about six months ago and notice myself using shorthand if/else logic all the time. It shortens my code, the time to...

6 replies - 1591 views - 03/17/08 by David Walsh in News

Force A Secure Page Using PHP

Force A Secure Page Using PHP Many pages, most often pages with forms or pages that serve personal information, require the need to be served over a secure...

6 replies - 1296 views - 03/15/08 by David Walsh in News

Smarty and escaping user input (for lazy guys)

Smarty gives us a simple way to escape “dirty” variables when they come to template processing. With escape variable modifier you can make “dirty”...

0 replies - 231 views - 03/14/08 by Victor Smirnov in Tips and Tricks

Execute a HTTP POST Using PHP CURL

A customer recently brought to me a unique challenge. My customer wants information request form data to be collected in a database. Nothing new, right? ...

2 replies - 2951 views - 03/11/08 by David Walsh in News

PHP Email Validator - Email MX DNS Record Check

Validating an email address is one of the hardest feats on the web. A valid email can be marketing gold, but an invalid email address is dead weight. Not...

3 replies - 2901 views - 03/06/08 by David Walsh in News

Useful Symfony Tips for Beginners

I started using symfony by taking a single workday to walk through the first seven steps of the Askeet tutorial. After that, as time was scarce, we dived into...

0 replies - 876 views - 03/02/08 by Stefan Koopmanschap in Articles

PHP Redirect Function

After form submission or a page redirect is triggered, it's commonplace to redirect the user to a different page or to the same page, formatted in a different...

8 replies - 5889 views - 03/01/08 by David Walsh in News

The HYSOCAMTT templating approach

This article aims to highlight a approach which allows one to separate everything from one's business logic to one's design logic, to XHTML from CSS, one's...

0 replies - 273 views - 02/28/08 by Cal Evans in News

How to Merge RSS Feeds Using Php & Zend Framework

Recently I though of making one combines RSS feed of both of my blogs and my twitter updates. There are some RSS merging services out there, and there's also...

0 replies - 629 views - 02/27/08 by Arik Fraimovich in News

OpenID, OAuth and the Enterprise

I spent last weekend in Sebastopol, CA at Foo Camp where the topics discussed were around the Social Graph, Privacy, OpenID, OAuth, Data Portability,...

0 replies - 261 views - 02/26/08 by Danny Kolke in News