Gregory Szorc's blog - PHP Archives

"PHP" archive

Sunday 6 April

Using DTD's and Catalogs for XHTML Validation (01:48) - If you are like me, whenever you develop web sites or pages, you constantly find yourself validating the generated XHTML... | 0 Trackbacks | 5 Comments

Thursday 23 August

PHP Now Using Proper HTTP Status Codes on Error (03:39) - I'm not sure if I have blogged about this before, but one of my biggest complaints about PHP is how... | 0 Trackbacks | 2 Comments

Tuesday 17 July

PHP 5 Goes Mainstream (Finally) (03:31) - Three years after its release, PHP 5 is finally receiving the recognition it deserves. In case you aren't up to... | 0 Trackbacks | 4 Comments

Sunday 29 April

So Many Untapped PHP Features (18:00) - I love PHP as a language. It can be used for quick and dirty scripts. Or, you can harness the... | 0 Trackbacks | 34 Comments

Friday 26 January

Digg, Facebook, Scaling, and PHP (03:11) - I made two web site performance observations today: Digg is slow. Try searching for anything during the day. Half the... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Friday 10 November

On PHP and Maintainability (09:43) - Why is PHP Code Considered Hard To Maintain Why is PHP code considered hard to maintain? Is it the language... | 0 Trackbacks | 8 Comments

Tuesday 7 November

Another Reason to Upgrade to PHP 5.1.x or 5.2.x (09:04) - PHP / GCC / ICC Benchmarks If your hosting provider hasn't upgraded, show them these graphs. It is also worth... | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments
Another Reason to Upgrade to PHP 5.1.x or 5.2.x (09:04) - PHP / GCC / ICC Benchmarks If your hosting provider hasn't upgraded, show them these graphs. It is also worth... | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments

Wednesday 1 November

Zend Framework Keeps Getting Better and Better (20:38) - I absolutely love the Zend Framework. This PHP 5 library makes coding PHP even easier. As if developing web services... | 0 Trackbacks | 2 Comments

Saturday 22 July

Why Global Variables in PHP is Bad Programming Practice (20:32) - I have done my fair amount of hacking PHP applications. In that time, I have come across many poor programming... | 0 Trackbacks | 12 Comments

Saturday 15 July

5 Things You Probably Didn't Know About PHP (15:58) - I have been programming PHP for a few years now. In that time, I have been pleasantly surprised to find... | 2 Trackbacks | 7 Comments

Friday 17 March

Using Zend Framework, Smarty, and QuickForm to Quickly Deploy PHP Applications (18:02) - I began work this week on my first project utilizing the Zend Framework. The Zend Framework, although still alpha, provides... | 0 Trackbacks | 10 Comments

Friday 10 March

eAccelerator: Now With Support for PHP 5.1 (09:09) - I was installing a fresh LAMPS environment for an ITS server (the Case Wiki's final home no less) and saw... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
eAccelerator: Now With Support for PHP 5.1 (09:09) - I was installing a fresh LAMPS environment for an ITS server (the Case Wiki's final home no less) and saw... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Thursday 9 March

Case Blog PHP Class Now Available (21:14) - I have committed an initial version of a Case Blog PHP class to the CaseClasses project. I can verify it... | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments
Zend Framework: Like Rails for PHP (01:01) - I just found out about the Zend Framework tonight. All I can say is WOW! I was completely surprised to... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Thursday 15 September

Getting PEAR to Work at Case (23:25) - For some reason PEAR, PHP's package repository, isn't accessible at Case. When you attempt to download packages from the web... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Friday 5 August

Java is Not a Web Application Language (09:48) - It seems that everyone is on the Java bandwagon nowadays. Along with XML, it is something that every project coordinator... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments