Category: PHP

I’m Zend Certified!

13 June, 2008 (15:40) | PHP, Personal | 1 comment

After only a minor amount of study, today I took the Zend Certified Engineer (ZCE) exam at Excom. I was able to pass the test successfully on the first try!

Book Review: Apress’ Beginning PHP and Oracle

4 June, 2008 (17:47) | PHP, UNIX | 3 comments

Recently I was offered the opportunity to review two PHP books from Apress, and from the list of options provided one that particularly struck my interest was the book Beginning PHP and Oracle: From Novice to Professional by W. Jason Gilmore and Bob Bryla. Read on for more..

Another PHP5 Framework?

9 April, 2008 (16:39) | PHP | 13 comments

I’ve been working on an Object Oriented PHP5 Framework in my spare time since before many of the current frameworks were around, it’s been around 2 years now since I started coding (mainly in my spare time). I’m now considering releasing the code to the world as Open Source (licence undecided as yet) to see [...]

APC Wrapper Class

19 December, 2007 (06:33) | PHP | 4 comments

Recently i’ve been working with some simple Alternative PHP Cache (APC) caching as part of the projects i’m working on, and i’ve come up with this simple wrapper script which allows me to run my framework on any installation of PHP5 weather it has APC enabled or not, and I don’t have to make configuration [...]

APC and Web Application Performance, take 2

21 September, 2007 (08:44) | PHP | 2 comments

After encountering a few issues while implementing APC into my framework which uses PDO in its ORM system, I have managed to overcome these issues and successfully cache result sets. Previous issues were outlined in the article ‘APC and Web Application Performance‘

APC and Web Application Performance

20 September, 2007 (22:18) | PHP | 7 comments

Well i’ve managed to get a lot more performance out of my framework, thanks to APC.

Stress Testing Web Applications in Apache

14 September, 2007 (13:59) | PHP | No comments

I’ve just done some testing on my web application in Apache, and it needs some work I knew it would, but it is proven to me now

Executing SQL with Eclipse using Apache Ant

2 September, 2007 (05:10) | Java, PHP | No comments

Today I needed an easy way to rebuild my database manually for a project I’m working on so I found out how to use the SQL Database integration in Apache Ant that ships with Eclipse, so I could build/rebuild my PostgreSQL databases quickly for development.

PHP5 String Cleaner

31 August, 2007 (22:38) | PHP | No comments

Sometimes it’s handy to have a simple, easy to use string cleaning class for those times you need to use a string from an untrusted source, such as a URL or Form Input.

PHP5 DateTime / DateTimeZone

10 August, 2007 (02:19) | PHP | No comments

Playing with the new DateTime / DateTimeZone objects in PHP5.2 for my ’secret project’; its great and simplifies working with timezones and the like.
I’ve created a quick script to show some basic usage of the DateTime / DateTimeZone code: