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Proem framework hits milestone 0.1.0

2012-01-14T03:01:03-05:00

Phpfreaks admin Thorpe has been working on a new framework which has as its goal, use of the latest and greatest php 5.4 features. It's important for the php community that people endeavor to explore these features if PHP is to continue to evolve and thrive. Proem has the goal of being small simple and fast. It's still in the early stages.

The problem with hover based menus

2011-11-01T13:06:58-04:00

Nice article on solving a common problem I see with website drowdown menus, authored by one of phpfreaks great moderators.

Congrats to phpfreaks member phpSensei for winning 2011 Skills Canada Web development competition!

2011-07-22T00:03:27-04:00

He beat out a host of other high school and college competitors from across Canada to complete a "facebook" clone and take 1st place in the 2 day competition. He'll be representing his country at the World Skills competition next, so stop off and congratulate him and wish him luck at the Worlds. [url=http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php?topic=339304.0]http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php?topic=339304.0[/url]

Developing HTML Emails

2011-04-11T15:20:27-04:00

"Email clients over the past few years really haven't kept up with the pace of today's developers. When developing emails, it feels like you've stepped back into the late 90's, writing out-dated code. Below are some tips & tricks I've found helpful over the past few years of developing emails...."

Support the fixing of the XDebug profiler!

2011-02-20T17:58:25-05:00

If you read my recent tutorial on the use of the excellent XDebug profiler, you may be aware of what a truly a great FOSS PHP extension it is, used by countless developers over the years. Unfortunately the cachegrind format is not quite right, because when XDebug was developed Derick Rethans had no documentation of the format and had to reverse engineer it and make some educated guesses. Derick is truly one of the PHP communities heroes, and taught many of us about PHP's internals through his articles, and projects like XDebug and Vulcan.