The XSL Cache extension is a modification of PHP’s standard XSL extension that caches the parsed XSL stylesheet representation between sessions for 2.5x boost in performance for sites that repeatedly apply the same transform. Although there is still some further work that could be done on the extension, this code is already proving beneficial [...]
This area is intended for everyone new to PHP. It opens with a series of informal, entertaining tutorials written by Vikram Vaswani, founder and CEO of Melonfire. These tutorials build on a previously-published 5-part series which has now been updated and extended to embrace PHP 5, making parts of it suitable for those of you [...]
Who wants to use Excel to make a new graph each week? Using CSS and PHP you can create attractive bar graphs (yes, even the stacked kind) that are always up to date.
The key features of PHP 5.2.0 include:
New memory manager for the Zend Engine with improved performance and a more accurate memory usage tracking.
Input filtering extension was added and enabled by default.
JSON extension was added and enabled by default.
ZIP extension for creating and editing zip files was introduced.
Hooks for tracking file upload progress were introduced.
Introduced [...]
Seagull is a mature OOP framework for building web, command line and GUI applications. Licensed under BSD, the project allows PHP developers to easily integrate and manage code resources, and build complex applications quickly.
Many popular PHP applications are already seamlessly integrated within the project, as are various templating engines, testing [...]
In this tutorial you will learn how to use words rather than IDs in your Cake URLs. These words are known as “slugs” in Wordpress so I decided to call them slugs too.
Came across this neat PHP class when looking around for proctecting a site against XSS attacks.
“PHP Input Filter is a class that can filter input for stray or malicious PHP, JavaScript, or HTML tags. It can be used to prevent cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks. It should be used to filter input supplied by the user, [...]
Symfony is a PHP framework, however its very similar to Rails in it’s approach and offers features like scaffolding and simple templating. This is a complete tutorial for your first Symfony project.
Anty over at 15 tags writes:
“I should have done anything but creating this demo, but I took the time and did it anyway. So here it goes: A demo of the tagcloud script I wrote, in action. If you want to influence the tagcloud you can do this by writing down a comment [...]
Cameron Olthuis has posted a list of what he thinks are the top 10 most useful developer libraries. These should be in any web developers bookmarks, so go ahead and look through these libraries and bookmark your favorite ones. The list is in no particular order.
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