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PHP 5.3.0 is only in its first alpha release. But, if you run PHP in Microsoft Windows, you should talk a look at…

Hey, I saw that the first part of this post (Basics of framework design) got a little bit attention I decided to continue that thought. Before you continue reading make sure you read the first part for easier understanding of this post. In order to use or even build a framework first we need to understand what type of architecture the framework was built upon. We need to understand the design behind it.

Read on to see how you can easily handle the DOM in PHP much like you can in JavaScript.

When testing code which uses the database, you would usually want to make sure the database stays pristine for each test - All tables should be empty, as any extra data could interfere with the tests. You could probably write an extended Testcase class which automatically does this before each test in setUp and afterwards in tearDown, but it may have some issues. For example, Zend Framework’s Zend_Test Testcase class also extends PHPUnit’s one, and you might need to extend the Zend_Test one as well… and so on. Luckily, PHPUnit has a way to add event listener that react to certain events.

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The MooTools Accordion plugin seems to be the plugin that people seem to have the most problems with. It's an awesome plugin, so I can see why so many people want to use it, but I think that may be part of the problem.

Python code doesn’t typically use the get and set methods so common in PHP. Normally, when writing PHP code, you carefully protect your instance variables by making them private, so callers can only interact with them via getter and setter methods

After developing the draggable div application the other day, I was itched to implement the whole iGoogle portal. Probably the drive came when a few of you asked me “These draggable divs are just like iGoogle”, so I thought why not to give a shot at it.

It’s a breath of fresh air when a website loads quickly and cleanly. Web developers sometimes neglect some simple rules when it comes to developing a fast website, which really hurts the user’s experience. Fast page load times are crucial for keeping users happy.

For some reason, there are some people who write web sites with PHP, but put the ".aspx" extension at the end of their files. WHY???

Today I tried the DbFinderPlugin for the first time. I am truely impressed. Using this plugin, it is not necessary anymore to really care about which ORM you pick for your project. It's the thought behind symfony 1.1 taken into the symfony ORM-selection.

If you've been working with PHP for a while, you already know that the language makes dynamic image generation very simple: the GD extension and a few lines of PHP code are all you need to create a JPEG, GIF or PNG image from scratch. However, while this works remarkably well for simple tasks, it can become tedious and complicated if you need to generate more complex images, such as graphs and charts, at run-time.

In raising the question about whether a specific programming language is agile I want to avoid exploring what makes a language agile, or comparing PHP with other languages. The intention here is not to associate PHP to agile as a natural relationship, as much as to try and understand if we can find the ingredients in the PHP world, for creating an agile environment.

Even if most blogs have a very simple navigation, Worpress allows you to create very advanced menus. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to create a “Magazine Style” horizontal drop-down menu, for your categories or even your pages.

More and more users are finding it difficult to load models within Zend Framework modules. This is strange, considering that modularity is an important design principle and its goal is to design systems that are easier to extend, understand, design and manage.

PHP 4 officially died Friday. I started programming PHP with release candidates of 4.0.0 -- which simultaneously introduced me to the GNU C compiler and toolset. My first official job using PHP was at a shop that was using PHP 3, and considering the costs of upgrading to PHP 4 -- which clearly offerred many benefits over its predecessor. I switched to PHP 5 as soon as the first official release was made four years ago -- the pains of reference handling with objects, the introduction of a unified constructor, first-class support for overloading, and SimpleXML won me over immediately, and I've never looked back. Goodbye, PHP 4; long live PHP!

How would you determine whether your website is being hacked or not? Read the way hacker steals the information and hacks your website. Moreover, how you can help preventing your website being hacked. IS YOUR WEBSITE HACKABLE? Some hackers, for example, will take advantage of web application vulnerabilities and may maliciously inject code within vulnerable web applications to trick users and redirect them towards phisphing sites. This technique is called Cross-Site Scripting and may be used even when the web servers and database engine contain no vulnerabilities themselves.

Shell injections scare me since a long time and I usually prefer to whitelist certain characters/patterns rather than to blacklist. This means that the system fails to the save side. Unfortunally it usually does fail - my whitelisting is to rigorous and data that would not cause any problems gets rejected. So I decided to take the opportunity to investigate how to prevent shell injection in my favorite scripting language (Python), the language I found the problem in and finally the language that I can not avoid (PHP).