Scouring the web for as much information as I can possibly consume, I came across this free online book. Zend Framework: Surviving The Deep End is comprised of ten chapters with three appendices from introducing Zend Framework to installing Zend Framework to developing a blog application with Zend Framework. You can find a full book index on the website.
I have spent a lot of time recently working with Zend Framework. As I get further into its features and capabilities, the more I enjoy developing websites and web applications with it. While researching ideas and options, I came across ZFDebug, a plugin that adds a debug bar to the bottom of your pages if you are in the “development” environment. The plugin is hosted on Google Code and is licensed under the New BSD License.
There is a new section on the Resources page for Frameworks. This section of the resources page lists popular PHP frameworks like Zend Framework, which is my personal favorite, and CakePHP. The six common PHP frameworks that were added are also listed in this article.
For those of you using PHP to develop your web pages, I’m sure that you have used the date function at some point. There are so many cases that I have used this to show a date on a page, like using date(“Y”) in the
For those of you that are as hooked on phpMyAdmin as I am, you will be happy to know that there is a new version available. phpMyAdmin 3.1.0 includes a number of improvements and fixes. The list of improvements includes security updates, language updates, export
Have you ever wondered if your skills are in demand? With so many different possibilities available for web development, it is tough to know if you should keep mastering a specific technology or start learning a new one. After reading an article about how PHP
Sams Teach Yourself books are great resources in a large array of topics. They have released Sams Teach Yourself Ajax, JavaScript, and PHP All in One in paperback version on July 12, 2008. This book is great for webmasters because it includes three of the
Techotopia offers free online books that cover a number of subjects including programming languages, security, and Linux. The books are hosted on their wiki and are available to read online. The four main books that brought me to this site are: PHP Essentials MySQL Essentials
Zend Technologies held their fourth ZendCon conference, ZendCon 08, in Santa Clara, CA from September 15-18. In case you weren’t able to attend (like me) or just want to see them again, the presentations from the conference are available online. You can view the ZendCon
As a developer I have often wanted to be able to test query speeds among other things. The problem is I didn’t always have a usable data set sitting around that could meet the requirements of my test cases. To make a long story short,