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Getting Started with Drizzle and PHP

Unless you've been completely out of touch with the open source world, you'll have heard of Drizzle, a new database server that's derived from MySQL. The Drizzle project aims to build a "smaller, lighter, faster" version of MySQL that offers similar stability and ease of use, but strips out certain features from the core system in order to improve performance and scalability.

MySql Prepared Statement in PHP

I was wondering whether PHP also give a feature of Prepared Statement as you have in Java JDBC Connection. Prepared Statements are always better than normal statements as it prevent SQL Injection etc.

Facebook like Autosuggestion with jQuery, Ajax and PHP.

I received a lot of request from my readers that asked to me how to implement Autosuggestion search with jquery. I love facebook API it's neat, so I had developed Facebook like Autosuggestion user search with jQuery, Ajax and PHP. It's simple and clean just you have to change the database details.

Cook up Web sites fast with CakePHP, Part 4: Use CakePHP's Session and Request Handler components

CakePHP is a stable production-ready, rapid-development aid for building Web sites in PHP. This "Cook up Web sites fast with CakePHP" series shows you how to build an online product catalog using CakePHP. Part 4 focuses primarily on the Session component of CakePHP, demonstrating three ways to save session data, as well as the Request Handler component to help you manage multiple types of requests (mobile browsers, requests containing XML or HTML, etc).

The need for PHP code refactoring

Refactoring is changing of complex and complicated programming codes into simple and confusion-less ones, thereby restructuring the complete set of codes into easily readable formats, without any change in the output or functionality.Refactoring does not include fixing of glitches or including of new functionalities or practices to the existing set of codes.

How to Implement Text to Speech in PHP

One such application is Festival, it allows us to convert Text to Speech(WAV) format. In this article we will learn on how we can convert text to speech from PHP applications.

Using pecl/oauth to post to Twitter

I have seen a lot of questions about OAuth and specifically how to do OAuth from PHP. We have a new pecl oauth extension written by John Jawed which does a really good job simplifying OAuth

Integrate PHPBB3 with your website

This tutorial will show you how to take a simple installation of PHPBB3 and add it to your website to restrict page access based on registration status.

Image watermark with PHP

To prevent quality images being stolen, we can use PHP to watermark web-images in popular formats like GIF/PNG/JPEG. We print a transparent gif-image on a jpeg-photo in this tutorial.

Build a Facebook application with Zend Framework

A quick tutorial on how to use Zend Framework to build a Facebook Application.

Pimp Your PHP App with Flex!

If you're looking to add some pizzazz to your PHP application, look no further—Adobe’s Flex is here to give your interface some polish. In this article Lennart Steinke shows us how to make a Flex widget with a PHP back end.

10 Advanced PHP Tips Revisited

Because of PHP's huge popularity, it has become almost impossible for Web developers not to have at least a working knowledge of PHP. This tutorial is aimed at people who are just past the beginning stages of learning PHP and are ready to roll up their sleeves and get their hands dirty with the language. Listed below are 10 excellent techniques that PHP developers should learn and use every time they program. These tips will speed up proficiency and make the code much more responsive, cleaner and more optimized for performance.

404/403 Website Error Pages With PHP Auto-Mailer

Website error pages are perhaps one of the most overlooked pieces of a fully rounded website. Not only are they important but they give you the opportunity to have a little fun. Although many web developers rely on server logs to keep an eye out for hits on error pages, I'm going to take a different approach by using a PHP generated email. In addition, we will spice up the design a bit, add basic navigation and link to the website sitemap.

Add Power to Your PHP With Multi-Tiered Applications

As PHP applications become more and more complex, it can be easy to end up with a tangled mess of code that makes maintenance nearly impossible. Applying the concept of tiered applications can help to alleviate some of the difficulty in maintaining complex applications.

PHP Tutorial on Classes, Inheritance, Polymorphism, Magic Methods & Exceptions

This link contains links on various PHP5 tutorials. I have spent a lot of time learning PHP5 concepts and wish to share my learnings with you all via my blog

Bloom Filters Quickie

It’s been a couple of month since the release of pecl/memcached and I was getting the urge to write something else. At the same time, I was reading up on Bloom filters, but couldn’t find a PHP extension that implemented them. Thus, pecl/bloomy was born. Now, you may be wondering, what the heck is a Bloom filter why in the blooming sky would I want to use it? Well, read on.

Use Windows Login (Active Directory) For your PHP applications

Use the username and password schemes that are already in place for logging in to your applications or websites. Great for intranet site work.

PHP and the Cloud

Cloud computing refers to the utilization of shared, elastic resources and processing power accessed via the Internet. In some ways, it hails the reversion to the golden age of time-sharing but with significant improvements to the distribution philosophies underlying the delivery infrastructure. So, analogously, we now have the shared wonders of Hyde Park, where everyone and anyone can chill on the bench, throw some Frisbee, instead of having to financially pool money to buy a private park to shoot rabbits.

Parsing with Zend HTTP Client

Example of how Zend HTTP Client is used when parsing statistics, logging in to sites and handling cookies.

Creating a MySQL Database Class Using the Singleton Design Pattern

Using the Singleton Pattern is a simple way to limit the number of instances of an object to just one, helps keep database connections organized, and saves memory. This tutorial will help you create a MySQL database class using this popular design pattern.