Trying to install Zend Platform 3 for Windows I was surprised to see that it requires Zend Core 2.0 now. Ok, so it removed my installation of XAMP to give this one a try.
Unfortunately the trial ended soon. My first step after running the installer was to try to install some PEAR packages using go-pear, [...]
If Firebug impoved the way you do your web development (I bet it did) - and you do this with PHP, you might want to follow the FirePHP project. It brings the Firebug goodness into the PHP world.
Most PHP developers may know (or have used) JPGraph for creating chart images in PHP. Now there is a new player in the game:
ezComponents now has its own Graph component. The tutorial shows some impressive examples. Besides that there is an introductory article by Kore Nordmann about the component.
When using Javascript and CSS extensively the sizes of these files are going to make a quite notable amount of a web site. Especially when using a JS framework it adds many KB to every file.
I stumbled across a solution for Javascript which also can - and has been used for CSS.
I tested the .htacces-solution [...]
A “Getting Started“-PDF by Rob Allen.
Update (04/06/2007): Rob updated his tutorial to reflect the many changes to the Zend Framework. Mainly the MVC part has been streamlined and now it looks even better than before. The tutorial has been translated into several languages (including German) and the source code of the tutorial is also available.
Since Zend offers their product ZendPlatform free for developers in combination with ZendStudio I thought to give it another try.
Zend has released a first preview set of their Framework. Although there are already many frameworks out there, this one seems to get much attention just because it’s from Zend.
php|architect has published a great tutorial showing some basic examples of using the Framework - mainly its MVC components. This is a “must read” for everyone [...]
Yahoo! opens their PHP developer center.
One interesting article is the use of Yahoo web service which return serialized PHP structures instead of XML. This make the handling of the returned data easy as calling the unserialize function. But before jumping up and down, make sure you read the possible down-sides of this.
