Programming coding tools.

cakephp xml helper serialize create standard elements wise xml array

2010-05-04T17:34:00.000-07:00

We are using the xmlHelper and serialize to output an array as XML. This
works ok, except that the outputed XML uses "attributes" (http://
www.w3schools.com/XML/xml_attributes.asp) instead of standard
elements.

You can change to change this behaviour of CakePHP XML helper.

$xml->serialize($yourData, array('format' => 'elements'));

or

$xml->serialize($yourData, array('format' => 'tags'));

PHP Debugging Tools

2009-02-12T00:46:00.000-08:00

Debugging Tools

Webgrind
Webgrind is an Xdebug profiling Web front end in PHP 5. It implements a subset of the features of kcachegrind, installs in seconds and works on all platforms. For quick ‘n’ dirty optimizations, it does the job.
Xdebug
Xdebug is one of the most popular debugging PHP extensions. It provides a ton of useful data to help you quickly find bugs in your source code. Xdebug plugs right into many of the most popular PHP applications, such as PHPEclipse and phpDesigner.
Gubed PHP Debugger
As the name implies, Gubed PHP Debugger is a PHP debugging tool for hunting down logic errors.
DBG
DBG is a robust and popular PHP debugger for use in local and remote PHP debugging. It plugs into numerous PHP IDE’s and can easily be used with the command line.
PHP_Debug
PHP_Debug is an open-source project that gives you useful information about your PHP code that can be used for debugging. It can output processing times of your PHP and SQL, check the performance of particular code blocks and get variable dumps in graphical form, which is great if you need a more visual output than the one given to you by print_r() or var_dump().
PHP_Dyn
PHP_Dyn is another excellent PHP debugging tool that’s open-source. You can trace execution and get an output of the argument and return values of your functions.
MacGDBp
MacGDBp is a live PHP debugger application for the Mac OS. It has all the features you’d expect from a fully featured debugger, such as the ability to step through your code and set breakpoints.

how to CSS Forms

2009-02-11T03:11:00.000-08:00

Form layout
Richard Rutter - clagnut blog
Prettier Accessible Forms
It can be time consuming to make web forms both pretty and accessible….
Styling form controls
Roger Johansson - 456 Berea Street
Styling even more form controls
Roger Johansson - 456 Berea Street
Table-less Forms
Most of the CSS-only, table-less forms available suck. So, not wanting to stoop to mediocrity, I decided to take on the task of coming up with something better. This is the result of my efforts…
The Form Garden
A CSS Stylesheet Collection for Web Forms

CSS Diagrams, Bar Graphs, Star Rater

2009-02-11T03:07:00.000-08:00

CSS Diagrams, Bar Graphs, Star Rater

CSS FOR BAR GRAPHS
Basic CSS Bar Graph, Complex CSS Bar Graph, Vertical CSS Bar Graph
Super simple CSS bars
Tobias Lütke
Creating a graph Russ Weakley - Creating a graph using percentage background images
Dynamic Pie Chart with CSS
This is an example of creating a semi-dynamic pie chart without the use of server-side imaging libraries
CSS Diagrams
Things to Do With CSS When You’re Bored at Work
Star Rater
Creating a Star Rater using CSS
CSS Star Rating
CSS Star Rating Part Deux

Frameworks for PHP

2009-02-11T02:53:00.000-08:00

Frameworks for PHP

Dwoo
Dwoo is a PHP 5 template engine positioned as an alternative to Smarty. It is (nearly) fully compatible with its templates and plug-ins, but it is being written from scratch and is aimed to go one step further with a cleaner code base.
CodeIgniter
CodeIgniter is a powerful, high-performance, open-source PHP framework that helps you author PHP applications rapidly. CodeIgniter is known for having a light footprint, thereby reducing your server’s work. You can get up and running with CodeIgniter in a jiffy: it has an awesome online manual, a couple of helpful video tutorials and an active user forum.
YII Framework
Here is a high-performance component-based PHP framework that is supposed to be more efficient than CodeIgniter, CakePHP, ZF and Symfony. An optimal solution for developing large-scale Web applications. Yii supports MVC, DAO/ActiveRecord, I18N/L10N, caching, jQuery-based AJAX support, authentication and role-based access control, scaffolding, input validation, widgets, events, theming and Web services.
NetBeans
A dedicated PHP coding environment and complete integration with web standards. The NetBeans PHP editor is dynamically integrated with NetBeans HTML, JavaScript and CSS editing features such as syntax highlighting and the JavaScript debugger. NetBeans IDE 6.5 fully supports iterative development, so testing PHP projects follows the classic patterns familiar to web developers.
Solar
Solar is a PHP 5 development framework for Web applications derived from the Savant templating engine. Solar uses the MVC architectural pattern and has a host of classes and functions for securing your Web app against SQL injection, cross-website scripting (XSS) and other common exploits.
symfony
symfony is an open-source PHP 5 Web application framework that is well known for its modularity and useful library of classes. To get up and running as fast as possible, you should check out the pragmatic symfony online tutorial called “The symfony 1.2 advent calendar tutorial,” which takes you through a step-by-step example of building your own symfony-based Web application.
PEAR - PHP Extension and Application Repository
PEAR is a popular framework and distribution system for reusable PHP components. The purpose of the framework is to provide a structured library of open-source code for PHP users, a system for code distribution and package maintenance and a standard style for PHP code.
Propel
Propel is an Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) framework for PHP 5. It allows you to access your database using a set of objects, providing a simple API for storing and retrieving data.
{{macro}} template engine
{{macro}} compiles initial templates into executable PHP scripts with very clean syntax (much cleaner than WACT and Smarty) and executes them very fast. The engine doesn’t use an XML-like syntax; there are only two data scopes, global and local, and no more data sources (all data is displayed with regular PHP variables); and the system supports all WACT features such as templates wrapping and including.
Zend Framework
The Zend Framework by Zend Technologies (the creators of PHP’s scripting engine) is a popular PHP Web application framework that embraces the principles of PHP OOP; it’s very extensible and has built-in utilities for working with free Web service APIs, such as those of Google, Flickr and Amazon.
Qcodo
Qcodo is an excellent open-source PHP Web application framework. It’s subdivided into two parts: (1) Code Generator, and (2) Qforms. Code Generator handles the creation of object code and PHP and HTML front-end code from your data model. Qforms is an intuitive system for handling and creating complex PHP-driven HTML Web forms. Check out demos of applications that use Qcodo and presentational material that covers Qcodo.
SAJAX
SAJAX is a JavaScript and AJAX application framework that works well with PHP (as well as several other server-side scripting languages). See SAJAX at work by going to Wall live demonstration.
Smarty
Smarty is a popular PHP templating system to help you separate PHP logic and front-end code (HTML, CSS, JavaScript). It will keep your projects modular and easier to maintain.
Smarty 2.6.22 Released
download it here.
CakePHP
CakePHP is one of the leading PHP frameworks for creating robust, fully-featured Web applications. CakePHP has an extensive and well-organized online manual. If you want to learn via video tutorials, check out the CakePHP screencasts.
Extra Hot: Release: 1.2.1.8004 Stable
Savant2
Savant2 is another popular object-oriented PHP templating system. Instead of a special syntax unique to Savant2, you use PHP syntax to develop your project’s template.
PHPSpec
PHPSpec is a simple and intuitive PHP framework. It follows the Behavior-Driven Development principle and therefore allows you to write behavior-oriented code, oftentimes in plain English.

In-Browser Tools (Firefox Add-Ons)

2009-02-11T02:47:00.000-08:00

PHP In-Browser Tools

FirePHP
FirePHP is a Firefox extension that allows you to log data in Firebug. It has a variety of useful logging features, such as the ability to change your error and exception handling on the fly and to log errors directly to the Firebug console. To learn more about what FirePHP can do, check out the FirePHP guide on how to use FirePHP. For developers using the Zend PHP framework, you might find this guide on using FirePHP with Zend useful.
phpLangEditor
phpLangEditor is a very handy Firefox add-on for translating language files and variables in your script.
PHP Lookup
PHP Lookup is a built-in search bar to help you quickly look up references to PHP syntax.
PHP Manual Search
PHP Manual Search is a handy search bar that searches official PHP documentation from within your Web browser.

PHP Online Tools and Resources

2009-02-11T01:39:00.000-08:00

PHP Online Tools and Resources

Minify!
Minify is a PHP 5 app that can combine multiple CSS or JavaScript files, compress their content (i.e. remove unnecessary white space and comments) and serve the results with HTTP encoding (via Gzip/deflate) and headers that allow optimal client-side caching. This will help you follow several of Yahoo!’s Rules for High Performance Websites.
HTTP_StaticMerger: Automatic “merging” of CSS and JavaScript files
This library automatically merges sets of static files (CSS or JavaScript) and speeds up page loading (by lowering the number of HTTP queries). It is recommended to use this together with caching reverse-proxy to minimize the response time.
PHP Object Generator
PHP Object Generator is an open-source Web-based tool that helps you quickly construct PHP objects and leverage object-oriented programming (OOP) principles in your code.
gotAPI/PHP
gotAPI is a useful online tool for quickly looking up PHP functions and classes. Also check out the Quick PHP look-up widget example in case you’d like to include this awesome look-up feature on your website.
koders
koders is a search engine for open-source and downloadable code. It currently has over a billion lines of code indexed and isn’t limited to just PHP.
PECL
PECL is a directory of all known PHP extensions and a hosting facility for downloading and developing PHP extensions.

PHP Useful Extensions Utilities and Classes

2009-02-11T01:30:00.000-08:00

Useful Extensions Utilities and Classes

SimplePie
SimplePie is a PHP class that helps you work with RSS feeds. Check out the online RSS and Atom feed reader, which demonstrates a simple Web application that uses SimplePie.
HTML Purifier
HTML Purifier is a standards-compliant HTML filter library written in PHP. HTML Purifier not only removes all malicious code (better known as XSS) with a thoroughly audited, secure yet permissive white list, it also makes sure your documents are standards-compliant. Open source and highly customizable.
TCPDF
TCPDF is an open-source PHP class for generating PDF documents.
htmlSQL
htmlSQL is a unique tool. It is a PHP class for querying HTML values in an SQL-like syntax. Check out the live demonstration of how htmlSQL works.
The Greatest PHP Snippet File Ever (Using Quicktext for Notepad++)
“A little something for all coders: a snippets file that I use for PHP coding. This is designed to be used with Quicktext for Notepad++, but feel free to adapt it to whatever text editor you prefer.”
Creole
Creole is a database abstraction layer for PHP5. It abstracts PHP’s native database-specific API to create more portable code while also providing developers with a clean, fully object-oriented interface based loosely on the API for Java’s JDBC.
PHPLinq
LINQ is a component that adds native data querying capabilities to PHP using a syntax reminiscent of SQL. It defines a set of query operators that can be used to query, project and filter data in arrays, enumerable classes, XML, relational databases and third-party data sources. [via]
PHPMathPublisher
With PhpMathPublisher, you can publish mathematical documents on the Web using only a PHP script (no LaTeX programs on the server and no MathML).
phpMyAdmin
If you’re working with PHP, there’s a big chance you’re set up in a LAMP configuration. phpMyAdmin is Web-based tool for managing, building, importing, exporting and exploring MySQL databases.
PHPExcel
PHPExcel is a set of useful PHP classes for working with Microsoft Excel files. PHPExcel allows you to read Excel files and write to them. This is useful for dynamically generating Excel spreadsheets for downloading.
Phormer
Phormer is a PHP-based photo gallery management application that helps you to store, categorize and trim your photos online.
xajax PHP Class Library
xajax is a PHP class for easily working with PHP AJAX applications. It gives you an easy-to-use API for quickly managing AJAX-related tasks. Check out the xajax Multiplier demo and the Graffiti Wall demo to see the xajax PHP class in action.
PHP User Class
PHP User Class is an excellent script that helps you create a system for user authentication (i.e. registration, log in, account profile, etc.). It’s a useful utility to have around if you require user registration for your Web applications.
PHP-GTK
PHP-GTK is a PHP extension for the GTK+ toolkit (a robust toolkit for developing GUIs). It is a suite of useful OOP functions and classes to help you rapidly build cross-platform, client-side GUI’s for your application.

PHP Documentation Tools

2009-02-11T01:28:00.000-08:00

PHP Documentation Tools

phpDocumentor
phpDocumentor (also known as phpdoc and phpdocu) is a documentation tool for your PHP source code. It has an innumerable amount of features, including the ability to output in HTML, PDF, CHM and XML DocBook formats, and has both a Web-based and command-line interface as well as source-code highlighting. To learn more about phpDocumentor, check out the online manual.
PHP DOX
An AJAX-powered PHP documentation search engine that enables you to search titles from all PHP documentation pages.

PHP Security Tools

2009-02-11T01:26:00.000-08:00

Securimage
Securimage is a free, open-source PHP CAPTCHA script for generating complex images and CAPTCHA codes to protect forms from spam and abuse.
Scavenger
Scavenger is an open-source, real-time vulnerability management tool. It helps system administrators respond to vulnerability findings, track vulnerability findings and review accepted and false-positive answered vulnerabilities, without “nagging” them with old vulnerabilities.
PHP-IDS
PHP-IDS (PHP-Intrusion Detection System) is a simple-to-use, well-structured, fast and state-of-the-art security layer for your PHP-based Web application.
Pixy: PHP Security Scanner
Pixy is a Java program that performs automatic scans of PHP 4 source code, aimed to detect XSS and SQL injection vulnerabilities. Pixy takes a PHP program as input and creates a report that lists possible vulnerable points in the program, along with additional information for understanding the vulnerability.

PHP Image Manipulation and Graphs

2009-02-11T01:20:00.000-08:00

PHP Image Manipulation and Graphs

PHP/SWF Charts
PHP/SWF Charts is a powerful PHP tool that enables you to create attractive Web charts and graphs from dynamic data. You can use PHP scripts to generate and gather data from databases, then pass it to this tool to generate Flash (SWF) charts and graphs.
pChart - a chart-drawing PHP library
pChart is a PHP class-oriented framework designed to create aliased charts. Most of today’s chart libraries have a cost; this one is free. Data can be retrieved from SQL queries or CSV files or can be manually provided.
WideImage
WideImage is a PHP library for dynamic image manipulation and processing for PHP 5. To be able to use the library, you should have the GD PHP extension installed on your Web server.
MagickWand For PHP
MagickWand For PHP is a PHP module suite for working with the ImageMagick API, which lets you create, compose and edit bitmap images. It’s a useful tool for quickly incorporating image-editing features in your PHP applications.

php Version Control Systems

2009-02-11T01:18:00.000-08:00

Phing
Phing is a popular project version-control system for PHP. It is a useful tool for organizing and maintaining different builds of your project.
xinc
xinc is a continuous integration server version-control system written in PHP 5 (i.e. continuous builds instead of nightly builds). It works great with other systems such as Subversion and Phing.

PHP Code Beautifier

2009-02-11T01:12:00.000-08:00

PHP_Beautifier
PHP Beautifier is a PEAR package for automatically formatting and “beautifying” PHP 4 and PHP 5 source code.
PHPCodeBeautifier
PHPCodeBeautifier is a tool that saves you from hours of reformatting code to suit your own way of presenting it. A GUI version allows you to process files visually; a command-line version can be batched or integrated with other tools (like CVS, SubVersion, IDE, etc.); and there is also an integrated tool of PHPEdit.
GeSHi - Generic Syntax Highlighter
GeSHi is designed to be a simple but powerful highlighting class, with the goal of supporting a wide range of popular languages. Developers can easily add new languages for highlighting and define easily customizable output formats.

PHP Testing and Optimization Tools SimpleTest

2009-02-11T01:05:00.000-08:00

PHP Testing and Optimization Tools

SimpleTest is a straightforward unit-testing platform for PHP applications. To get up and running with SimpleTest quickly, read through this pragmatic tutorial that shows you how to create a new test case.

Programming coding tools.

cakephp xml helper serialize create standard elements wise xml array

PHP Debugging Tools

Debugging Tools

how to CSS Forms

CSS Diagrams, Bar Graphs, Star Rater

CSS Diagrams, Bar Graphs, Star Rater

Frameworks for PHP

Frameworks for PHP

Smarty 2.6.22 Released

In-Browser Tools (Firefox Add-Ons)

PHP In-Browser Tools

PHP Online Tools and Resources

PHP Online Tools and Resources

PHP Useful Extensions Utilities and Classes

Useful Extensions Utilities and Classes

PHP Documentation Tools

PHP Documentation Tools

PHP Security Tools

PHP Image Manipulation and Graphs

PHP Image Manipulation and Graphs

php Version Control Systems

PHP Code Beautifier

PHP Testing and Optimization Tools SimpleTest

PHP Testing and Optimization Tools

SimpleTest is a straightforward unit-testing platform for PHP applications. To get up and running with SimpleTest quickly, read through this pragmatic tutorial that shows you how to create a new test case.