Posts tagged “PHP”
Pro PHP
My copy of Pro PHP: Patterns, Frameworks, Testing and More by Kevin McArthur has already been worth the money I spent on it. In our, albeit slow, upgrade to more modern development practices (code version and unit testing being the last elements on my list), I was particularly fearful of code versioning namely concerning issues [...]
Updates and ::’s
In my previous article (Microsoft Access and PHP), I discussed getting mdbtools setup and dynamically interacting with a instance of mdb-sql. Well it turns out somewhere in the pipeline (probably mdb-tools), we’re either not getting an EOF or reading an EOF right and as such I can read lines from the program’s STDOUT stream, but [...]
Microsoft Access and PHP
Microsoft products can really be a big wrench in the finely oiled machine that is your development environment. While Microsoft does offer some excellent products and development tools, when you work from an open source context, these great tools become great hazards and headaches. Case in point, access databases. Take as a recent example, a [...]
OO Design and PHP
I was helping a coworker the other day with some object oriented design issues in PHP and thought it would be great to share with the general PHP community as the general PHP community seems to lack in good OOP skills. The task, which will be detailed later when we release it, boiled down to [...]
PHP Feeds, or, Get Your Read On!
I’ve started to amass a large amount of feeds in my reader and I thought I’d share a few with you: PHPDeveloper.org (feed) Great aggregation of blog posts and updates in the PHP world. Zend Developer Zone (feed) Zend’s place for all things PHP related SitePoint.com (blogs) (articles) The infamous SitePoint. Not entirely PHP, but [...]
Our Slides Featured on SlideShare!
My (Our, Chris included) slides have been featured on the front page of SlideShare’s website! Small time success yes, but success none the less. Take that Ed Schipul, my slides are right next to yours! (Btw Ed, I still think your presentation you gave to refreshBCS was good, but I still disagree with your thoughts [...]
Singleton-Factory Hybrids FTW
Slowly but surely my framework is coming off the ground. I decided to adopt a singleton design pattern for my Cache, Template, and possibly any other engines I might have. Originally my design started as a factory, however it is now somewhat of a hybrid as there is a ::load() function that loads arbitrary classes [...]
PHP MVC Presentation
These are the powerpoint slides from the presentation I gave at Bar Camp Texas, 2008. The slides are currently out of date, I’ll publish the fixed ones later. The slides are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. PHP MVC Slides (Powerpoint 2007) PHP MVC Slides (PDF)
PHP and MVC
So, crazy me decided to give a talk at BarCamp Texas on MVC design in PHP. With the prevalence of MVC frameworks becoming more and more ubiquitous in PHP development (CakePHP, Symfony, and the Zend frameworks), I wanted to make sure that (a) the non-developer types were introduced to such styles of PHP development, and [...]