On PHPFreaks.com there's posted today looking at combining the Zend Framework with the LiveDocx libraries to create PDF/DOCX/DOC/RTF documents based on simple templates.Generating print-ready well-formatted PDF documents with PHP is not an easy task. Traditionally, there are two main approaches

On the Millwood Online blog there's about getting multiple Drupal sites up and running on one code installation.One of the great things about Drupal is that you can run more that one site off one installation. This saves disk space

In Brandon Savage suggests that every developer should do one thing before they start working with PHP frameworks - write their own.So for those of you wanting to write your own frameworks, feel free. But don't even think about putting

John Lim has his article with some new tips on caching data:In this chapter, we explain why optimizing PHP involves many factors which are not code related, and why tuning PHP requires an understanding of how PHP performs in relation

On NETTUTS.com today there's of the Packt book "Zend Framework 1.8 Web Application Development" (Keith Pope) from Fred Wu.The flow of this book is heavily inspired by the famous Ruby on Rails book, with Rails, where the author invites you

On Developer.com today there's that looks at working with file uploads in Zend Framework applications and looking more specifically at the Zend_File_Transfer component.Chances are you've become well acquainted with the Web-based mechanism used to upload files to the Web. But

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With some of the recent announcements about the future of and opinions have been coming out all over including from Elliot Haughin about a potential change in the Expression Engine market.If you're a CodeIgniter developer I would say this: You

In to his blog Brian Teeman asks the question of Joomla users and developers - "can you trust your Joomla extensions?"Sadly in the last 6 months there have been two published circumstances where an extension provider has been hacked and

On SitePoint.com today there's showing how you can quickly and easily install PHP on Windows via the .Earlier this year Microsoft released a small piece of software called the (Web PI)'"a dead-simple way to install a complete suite of web

In a Michelangelo van Dam talks about a presentation he gave on testing Zend Framework applications () and shares some of the code samples and techniques he mentioned.Since then I got a lot of questions how to set up a

Adam Gotterer has with his process behind creating an object collection manager with PHP's built-in SPL functionality.The purpose of a collection is to store objects in an organized manner with specific access rules. We are going to build a collection

New on The Bakery there's some of the inner workings of the CakePHP framework - its routing system.Routing in CakePHP is a very powerful feature and is used to make URLs look good. Experience in the #cakephp IRC support channel

In to his blog today Federico Cargnelutti shows you how to use mock objects to unit test controllers in your Zend Framework application.In this post I'll demonstrate a unit test technique for testing Zend Framework Action Controllers using Mock Objects.

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In a on the Personal Democracy site Nancy Scola looks at the recent change of the website over to use the Drupal content management system.After months of planning, says an Obama Administration source, the White House has ditched the proprietary

In a to The Bakery (the CakePHP resource) Jonathan Hendler has created a simple A/B test helper using the CakePHP framework and .Knowing what is driving the user experience is key to the success of an application. Subtle changes in

In to his blog Adam Harvey shares his opinion on unmoderated notes dropped directly into the PHP manual - "they're bad, mkay?"I've had a couple of whinges on IRC lately about why I'm not thrilled with having user notes in

Brandon Savage has to some questions that were raised by a of his on object-oriented development and some best practices. In this new post, he answers the questions:"Often times when a developer gives each object only one responsibility, they tightly

Patrick Allaert has that can take your PHP4 code and replace its current constructors with PHP5-formatted ones.It assumes your classes are always declared with the class keyword starting at the beginning of the line and that your files have the