Dependency Injection in PHP | Nettuts+
Dependency injection has been a frequent subject of discussion among many corporate developers in the past few years. Many feared that they might sacrifice too much time building their application architecture without doing any real work. In this article, I’ll explain why PHP developers should consider taking advantage of dependency injection, when building large, scalable projects.
Adminer – Database management in single PHP file
Adminer (formerly phpMinAdmin) is a full-featured database management tool written in PHP. Conversely to phpMyAdmin, it consist of a single file ready to deploy to the target server. Adminer is available for MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, MS SQL and Oracle.
Theme Review: Digging Into Twenty Eleven – Theme.fm
We’ll talk a little bit about post formats, layouts, color schemes and the theme options. We’ll then dive into the code of Twenty Eleven and see how the theme development guidelines have changed since last year’s Twenty Ten.
Very good in-depth analysis of the default wordpress template and the ways to modify it.
Smoothing with Holt-Winter – PHP/ir
In one of his talks at QCon, John Allspaw mentioned using Holt-Winter exponential smoothing on various monitoring instances. Wikipedia has a good entry on the subject, of course, but the basic idea is to take a noisy/spikey time series and smooth it out, so that unexpected changes will stand out even more. That’s often initially done by taking a moving average, so say averaging the last 7 days of data and using that as the current day’s value. More complicated schemes weight that average, so that the older data contributes less.
PHP 5.4 is Here! What You Must Know | Nettuts+
PHP 5.4 is here; the next major step forward since version 5.3 – keeping PHP 6 (full Unicode support) on hold for now. The latest enhancements significantly improve its elegance, while removing deprecated functionality, resulting in a dramatic optimization of the runtime (up to 20% more speed and memory usage reduction).
thenextweb/TNW-Social-Count – GitHub
TNW Social Count is a WordPress plugin that solves the problem of social sharing the proper way. No more third-party scripts that slow down your site and ugly buttons that clutter your design. The plugin has two parts: The backend part saves the number of Twitter retweets, Facebook likes, Google Plus and LinkedIn shares as post_meta information. The frontend part renders a share button on the same fashion as on The Next Web blog.
PDO vs. MySQLi: Which Should You Use? | Nettuts+
When accessing a database in PHP, we have two choices: MySQLi and PDO. So what should you know before choosing one? The differences, database support, stability, and performance concerns will be outlined in this article.
Using design patterns in your PHP code is one way to make your code more readable and maintainable. By using established patterns, you benefit from common design constructs that allow other developers on a team to understand your code’s purpose. It also allows you to benefit from the work done by other designers, so you don’t have to learn the hard lessons of design ideas that don’t work out.
A drop-in solution that automatically creates, caches, and delivers device-appropriate versions of your website’s images. No mark-up changes needed. Adaptive Images is intended for use with Responsive Designs and to be combined with Fluid Image techniques.
Debugging PHPUnit Tests in NetBeans with XDebug « Rafael Dohms
So debugging in a browser is a piece of cake in most IDEs like NetBeans and Zend Studio and so forth, but debugging your tests that are running on the command line take a few more cards up your sleeve. So this is how i configured my NetBeans IDE and my PHPUnit tests to communicate and let me debug what happens inside that crazy world.
Silex – The PHP micro-framework based on Symfony2 Components
Silex is a PHP microframework for PHP 5.3. It is built on the shoulders of Symfony2 and Pimple and also inspired by sinatra.
A microframework provides the guts for building simple single-file apps. Silex aims to be:
* Concise: Silex exposes an intuitive and concise API that is fun to use.
* Extensible: Silex has an extension system based around the Pimple micro service-container that makes it even easier to tie in third party libraries.
* Testable: Silex uses Symfony2’s HttpKernel which abstracts request and response. This makes it very easy to test apps and the framework itself. It also respects the HTTP specification and encourages its proper use.
PyroCMS ›Â The modular open-source CodeIgniter CMS
Lightweight, themeable and dynamic. PyroCMS is perfect for CodeIgniter developers to kickstart your projects.
PHP: Loop through dates (from date to date) with strtotime() function
This is very easy way loop through dates (from date to date) with PHP strtotime() function. This example only echo dates, but of course this model can be used more complicated situations.
Run PHP on the Google App Engine – PHP, Web and IT stuff
GAE will support Java going forward. Unfortunately PHP support on the App Engine is still left as the top item in the wishlist. So until Google announces their official PHP support we have a workaround to run PHP using Quercus. Quercus is basically a 100% Java implementation of the PHP language (requires JDK 1.5). Since the App Engine now supports Java this means we can use Quercus to run PHP scripts on the App Engine.
PHP implementation of the MySQL old_password function
MySQL has a built in function called password that calculates the hash of a password for secure storage in a database. In MySQL versions older than 4.1 the hashing function was very basic so all newer versions uses the cryptograpichally secure SHA-1 hashing algorithm
How to calculate a password hash the ‘old way’
PHProxy | Download PHProxy software for free at SourceForge.net
PHProxy is a web HTTP proxy programmed in PHP meant to bypass firewalls and access otherwise inaccessible resources (i.e. blocked websites). If the server this script is run on can access a resource, so can you!
PHP: Transparent load balancing and sharding with mysqlnd
30+ lines of PHP to add round-robin connection load balancing and, 70+ lines of PHP to add MySQL master slave replication or sharding support to your application without changing the application
Writing a PHP daemon application – Simas Toleikis
There is a special group of applications that require a different PHP script execution model. For example:
* A chat server (or any other kind of socket server therefore)
* A HTML5 WebSocket server
* A web crawler, data harvester or any other real-time serviceAll of the mentioned applications need to be run in the background as daemons – something that PHP was never designed/supposed to be good at. The plain C language is a weapon of choice when it comes to writing a daemon implementation, but then again, if the application in question does not depend on high performance and concurrency – PHP can do the job quite well.
This stem extension for PHP provides stemming capability for a variety of languages using Dr. M.F. Porter’s Snowball API.
It has a much simpler API than the stem extension found in pecl.
Shindig – Welcome To Apache Shindig!
Apache Shindig is an OpenSocial container and helps you to start hosting OpenSocial apps quickly by providing the code to render gadgets, proxy requests, and handle REST and RPC requests.
Apache Shindig’s goal is to allow new sites to start hosting social apps in under an hour’s worth of work.