PHP made simple

Web services allow you to exchange information over HTTP using XML. When you want to find out the weather forecast, the current stock price, or the cost of a product on eBay, you can write a short script to gather that data in a format you can easily manipulate. From a developer’s perspective, […]

I used my old Image utilities class for a long time until today taking it seriously for an e-commerce website to resize administrative uploaded images. The library use GD2 PHP module with some calculation to resize images proportionally. Unfortunately, quality is very low for big images, those are more than 1200×1200 px.
Figured out that GD2 […]

Prado PHP framework is a really cool framework, especially for .NET programmers who are looking for solutions in PHP. Prado focus mainly in making things done than doing a single task smartly. But coder won’t have to worry about quality of their code as Prado classes are written so well already.
I’ve spent more than one […]

It is now ending of our lunar New Year eve and I start to write some first lessons in the learning PHP series. The fact is that Wordpress blog is not very good in content management and so the PHP lessons will be mixed up with other articles. However, I will try to create a […]

Every time you start building a complete website with some modules and functionalities, you start thinking about the “structure” of your system or in other word, the framework you use through the system. For a PHP website, MVC is the most widely use framework or programming model where M is the Model which […]

Because it’s the most popular web server in use, you might think that Apache is a complicated piece of software, but it’s not difficult at all.
Installing Apache for Windows is a simple task, due in great part to the installation wizard distributed by the Apache Group. While running any web server on a Windows operating […]

I am a fan of Prado but Zend framework takes my love with its set of components. Having an MVC framework with a higher level of intefration between Model - View - Controller is better than taking Zend basic MVC model into a real life project. However, using Zend components to complete common web features […]

Prado is a rapid web application development framework that widely used nowadays by PHP coders. The framework at this moment is 3.1.1 show the maturity and stable. It provide coders with magnificent modules with beautiful ideas applied for MVC model.
The first noticeable thing in Prado is its control set which embrace the ASP.NET model of […]

There are many PHP & MySQL  books out there plus many free tutorial helpful for you. However, I choose the best roadmap for you by going the same road a PHP programmer goes for Zend PHP5 Certificate. You are not required to follow step by step and also on each step, I try to point […]

A lot of beginners do not know what to use and where to start when begin with PHP, a open source programming language with no official support. PHP on its way spreading the world programming community come with many commercial tools to help developers more productive. Tools varies from small, cheap coding programs to very […]