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First look at CakePHP
Finally, I found some time to take CakePHP for a spin. I’ve heard some really good things about it, and I’ve been trying to get some time to try it out. I installed the framework and went through the tutorial on building a simple blog application. I have to say I’m quite impressed.
In: PHP Tutorials · Tagged with: cakephp, PHP
‘Cool kids’ ARE using PHP and Ruby!
Coach Wei was wondering why ‘Cool Kids’ choose Ruby or PHP over Java? In his post, the power of Java is a “perfect fit for the areas where websites may need more than markups or scripting, such as middleware logic”, whereas PHP or Ruby are not ideal for building such middleware.
For example, PHP (and Ruby) are [...]
In: News · Tagged with: Java, PHP
VIDEO: PHP and Microsoft
A buddy of mine, Chris, recently did a presentation about Microsoft’s efforts to embrace non-MS technology – like PHP. This presentation was held during the December meet-up of the Singapore PHP User Group.
His video presentation was about an hour long, and covered the following topics:
SQL Server PHP driver
Open XML and PHP
Cardspace and PHP
Live Services and [...]
In: News · Tagged with: Microsoft, PHP
Using comments in your PHP scripts
Adding comments to PHP code is a very useful practice. Comments allows you to add some descriptive text that you can use to document or remind you on what the various parts of the PHP script is doing.
Comments are not sent to the browser, so it won’t be visible in the actual page you load [...]
In: PHP Tutorials · Tagged with: comment, PHP, php basics
Introducing PHP Variables
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In: PHP Tutorials · Tagged with: PHP, sample codes, source code, variables
Review: PHP5: Your visual blueprint for creating open source, server-side content
When anyone starts learning something new these days, they tend to get overloaded with more information that they can handle. The same goes for trying to pick up PHP, the shear number of books available on this one topic is staggering. Luckily, there are some great books specially catered to beginners, and this book is [...]
In: Book Review · Tagged with: books, PHP, reviews
Writing your first PHP script
Now that you know how to use XAMPP Lite, it’s time to write your first PHP script.
This tutorial will guide you on writing your first PHP script, show you how the PHP syntax is used, and where to put and run your PHP pages in XAMPP.
Note: this tutorial assumes you are using XAMPP Lite environment [...]
In: PHP Tutorials · Tagged with: PHP, sample codes, source code
Installing XAMPP Lite on a Portable Storage device
One of the fastest and best way to get a PHP server environment up and going is to use XAMPP. What is XAMPP you say?
Put together by the folks at Apache Friends, XAMPP is an installer package containing the Apache Web Server, MySQL, PHP and Perl. XAMPP takes away the hassle and headache of installing [...]
In: PHP Tutorials · Tagged with: Apache, Guides, How-to, mysql, PHP, XAMPP Lite