Jani Hartikainen's Blog: Understanding Doctrine's NestedSet feature
On his CodeUtopia blog Jani Hartikainen gives an inside look at a feature of Doctrine, nested sets. The Doctrine library comes with a feature called nested set, which makes saving trees in a database...
View ArticleLorna Mitchell's Blog: Introduction to Zend_Db
Lorna Mitchell has an introduction to Zend_Db, the Zend Framework database abstraction layer posted to her blog today: I recently worked on a project which was based on Zend Framework - I haven't...
View ArticleMihai Corlan's Blog: Flex/AIR and PHP apps
Mihai Corlan has put together a list (ever growing) of AIR applications that use a PHP backend: I want to maintain a list with RIA applications created using Flex and PHP (could be web apps or desktop...
View ArticleBrian Moon's Blog: PHP 5.3 and mysqlnd - Unexpected results
On his blog today Brian Moon takes a look at the mysqlnd driver that comes with PHP 5.3 by default and some strangeness he found when trying to fetch results. I have spoken in the past (see my slides...
View ArticleMichelangelo van Dam's Blog: Single User Zend_Service_Twitter
Michelangelo van Dam has a new post to his blog today with an example of using the Zend_Service_Twitter component of the Zend Framework to set up a simple Twitter client to connect and grab the latest...
View ArticleGonzalo Ayuso's Blog: Performance analysis fetching data with PDO and PHP.
Gonzalo Ayuso has a new post to his blog today with the results of some performance analysis he ran when fetching data with PHP and PDO. Fetching data from databases is a common operation in our work...
View ArticleTimothy Boronczyk's Blog: Avoid Fetch-Object Abuse
In a new post on his blog Timothy Boronczyk has a recommendation for developers working in PHP with databases that have a "fetch object" method - use it correctly or avoid it all together. Lately I'm...
View ArticleScript-Tutorials.com: How to Use APC Caching with PHP
On Script-Tutorials.com today there's a new article introducing you to using APC caching in your PHP applications. Their simple example sets up a caching class that handles the dirty work for you....
View ArticleDevShed: Building an ORM in PHP
On DevShed today there's a new tutorial showing you how to build a basic ORM layer on top of a MySQL database. It includes all the code you'll need (cut&paste-able, not as a download). Obviously,...
View ArticleHack Blog: Async - Cooperative Multitasking for Hack
On the Hack blog there's a new post talking about async, a feature in Hack that allows for code to "cooperatively multitask". This gives the language a way to keep moving on in the execution without...
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