Q&A on SAVARA

We spoke with Gary Brown and Steve Ross-Talbot to get their ideas about architectural agility and how savara fits in.

Introducing Infinispan: Part I

Part I provides an overview of the capabilities of Infinispan, including usage examples and a tour of the API's.

Google Style Did You Mean....? in PHP

On a new website I am developing for a client I had to add the usual "Did you mean... ?" in the search results for her. Si I started thinking for the...

0 replies - 22510 views - 06/06/08 by Alejandro Alvarez in News

Fractal Programming

This is a continuation of my previous posts describing layers of code written in different programming languages. I have thought about the things involved for...

0 replies - 5906 views - 06/03/08 by olabini in News

A small SimpleXML gotcha (with namespaces)

I've so far worked only very little with XML with namespaces, especially in terms of parsing it. Therefor, I was quite stumped today on the parsing of a...

0 replies - 1704 views - 05/30/08 by Stefan Koopmanschap in Articles

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 - 7603 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 - 13382 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 - 5173 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 - 5564 views - 03/25/08 by David Walsh in News

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

My favorite chapter of Wicked Cool PHP is chapter five: Working with Text and HTML. Regular expressions are extremely powerful and the amount of information you can acquire from simple page...

0 replies - 3891 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 - 5618 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 - 5163 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 - 1383 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? ...

1 replies - 17050 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 - 13065 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 - 2161 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...

10 replies - 29950 views - 03/01/08 by David Walsh in News