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Site News: Blast from the Past - One Year Ago in PHP

Here's what was popular in the PHP community one year ago today:Community News: The DooPHP Framework NETTUTS.com: Using htaccess Files for Pretty URLS PHPBuilder.com: Building a PHP Calendar IT World: How Microsoft Made PHP Suck Less on Windows CatsWhoCode.com: 15 PHP regular expressions for web developers Reinhold Weber's Blog: MVC anatomy for PHP developers Giorgio Sironi's Blog: Never write the same code twice: Dependency Injection NETTUTS.com: How to Create A Simple Web-based Chat Application DevShed: PHP 5 Helpers: Calling Methods Out of Object Scope Sameer Borate's Blog: Top 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors Symfony Blog: The symfony Reference Guide: The new book about symfony IBM developerWorks: MVC with Agavi - Add forms and database support with Agavi and Doctrine PHPClasses.org: India will become number 1 source of PHP developers soon Kevin van Zonneveld's Blog: Prepare for PHP 5.3 Chris Hartjes' Blog: So You Want To Telecommute? Part 1 - Building Trust

Giorgio Sironi's Blog: Missing the point (OOP in scripting languages)

On his blog today Giorgio Sironi has a response to this post from the I Am Learning PHP blog asking if web scripting languages really need OOP functionality. Yesterday I came across a question: Do Web-Scripting Languages Really Need OOP? Here's my answer: only if you want to do more than an Hello World script (which is paradoxically how old school programmers measure the utility of a language.) I'll express some of my thoughts without compromises, which will be up to you. He opposes the claims of the other post, noting that there's a reason most PHP frameworks are object-oriented and his concern with some of the comments on the post. He also responds to two of the comments on the post - one about the private scope and the other about namespaces.

Jani Hartikainen's Blog: The "do X or die()" pattern must die

Jani Hartikainen has a suggestion for all PHP developers out there - stop using die() for handling errors! What's the most common pattern for error handling you see in beginner's PHP code? - That's right, do_X() or die('do_X failed);. That's nice and all, as at least you have some sort of error handling, but I think this way of handling errors must go. There is no place for it in modern PHP code - it's the worst way to handle errors, not much better than not handling them at all. He talks about why die() is so bad and some alternatives to it - trigger_error (with a custom error handler) and exceptions. When used correctly, these two can help your script correctly catch and handle errors without the mess of a die().

DevShed.com: Asirra Captcha PHP Integration

On DevShed.com today there's a new tutorial about implementing the Asirra CAPTCHA system (from Microsoft) into your application for spam prevention. Unlike other types of captcha that utilize difficult text obfuscation techniques (such as Google reCaptcha), this system utilizes images of dogs and cats, such as those shown in this screenshot. They describe some of the reasons to use the system (hard to break, doesn't use sessions, easy to integrate) and how it works. They show how to implement the system on both the server and client side.

TigerFish Interactive: Drupal 6: Posting AJAX callbacks in SimpleTest

On the TigerFish Interactive blog today there's a new post for Drupal-ers out there about using the SimpleTest plugin for Drupal 6 to run automated tests against Ajax callbacks. In Drupal 6's excellent SimpleTest module, a method called drupalPost() allows you to simulate a button press on a form by taking the form's data and using HTTP POST to submit it. But what if you want to POST data to an AJAX callback URL? By default, SimpleTest checks which submit button you have pressed, but of course, when POSTing using AJAX, you probably won't have pressed a button! After doing some searching on a problem he had - submitting a form without the actual form on a page - he decided the best solution was to create a base class that inherits from DrupalWebTestCase. This base class allowed him to make a POST request (via curl) to the page and simulate a form request. The code for the method is included.

99Points.info: Youtube Style Share Button With URL Shortening using CURL, jQuery and PHP

In a recent post on the 99Points.info blog Zeeshan Rasool walks you through the steps to create a share button with URL shortening using PHP, jQuery and curl. These days every website must contain a section that is called '?Share This'?. After creating facebook style posting and youtube style rating system I have now come to share button. I have created youtube style share button with url shortening script. Try the demo and use this awesome tutorial on your web pages. His tutorial includes all of the code needed - Javascript, PHP and some CSS - to create a small "share this" button that can be embedded in your site to open pages on the remote sites with the shortened URL for the current page.

Sean Coates' Blog: A Case of Mistaken Iterator

In a new post to his blog today Sean Coates talks about some of his work with Iterators in PHP and how, despite a bad example in the manual, he solved his issue (and updated the PHP manual too). In the back end, we have models that connect to CouchDB. These models implement the Iterator pattern to allow easy traversal of a record's keys. [...] Little did I realize that this implementation is very broken. [...] Over the past few years, I've implemented many iterators in this way, using PHP's implicit array manipulation functions (reset(), current(), key(), next()). He points out some issues with how PHP handles array index tracking and how, in the previous PHP manual example, it incorrectly checked for "false" against the current array value. His updated version doesn't have this issue. You can see it here.

Commands for Acceptance Testing

In this second part of a three-part article series on acceptance testing with Ruby on Rails you will learn the various commands that are performed during this process and start your first acceptance test. This article is excerpted from chapter 11 of the book em Practical Rails Projects em written by Eldon Alameda Apress ISBN 159 597818 .... Recompile one file & boost performance Quickly find & fix hotspots with Intel® Parallel Studio. Get the eval guide.

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Gonzalo Ayuso's Blog: Clustering PHP applications. Tips and hints

In a new post to his blog today Gonzalo Ayuso offers some tips for those out there wanting to cluster their PHP applications effectively. Sometimes a web server and a database is fair enough to meet our project requirements. But if the project scales we probably need to think in a clustered solution. This post is an attempt at being an unsorted list of ideas working with clustered PHP applications. Maybe more than a list of ideas is a list of problems that you will face when swapping from a standalone server to a clustered server. He touches on a few different topics you might need to consider: consistency in source code writing to the file systems deployment problems authentication/authorization issues handling sessions/logs/cache files

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