(11-29-06)
With the new language features of PHP V5, you can significantly improve your code's maintainability and stability. Learn how to migrate code developed in PHP V4 to V5 while taking advantage of these new features.
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(11-29-06)
This "Spice up PHP applications with OpenLaszlo" tutorial series shows you how to use OpenLaszlo to create a more interactive interface for your PHP applications and how to use PHP to create more dynamic OpenLaszlo applications. It requires a basic understanding of -- or willingness to learn -- XML, JavaScript, and PHP. Each is well worth knowing for its own merits, plus they plug and play together nicely, since they're all based on synergistic open standards.
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(11-29-06)
In Part 2 of this four-part series, we explore an important distributed application architecture called Representational State Transfer (REST), which will be used to extend the knock-knock protocol described in Part 1 to use XML, instead of HTML.
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(11-29-06)
In this tutorial you will learn how to create a PHP library of OpenLaszlo functions to enhance the joke-rating service built earlier. At this point, we have an application that serves up knock-knock jokes and records whether the user thought the joke was funny. The application uses a PHP back-end Representational State Transfer (REST) interface with an OpenLaszlo front end.
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(03-15-06)
Regular expressions can provide a powerful way to work with text. Using regular expressions, you can do complex validation of user input, parse user input and file contents, and reformat strings. PHP provides simple methods that let you use POSIX and PCRE regular expressions. This article discusses the differences between POSIX and PCRE, and how you can use regular expressions and PHP V5.
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(03-15-06)
This series chronicles the building of a Web storefront in PHP using PHP Data Objects to access a Derby database. The storefront includes a user manageable shopping cart that allows item purchases using PayPal, and includes the ability for merchants to notify customers via e-mail on successful orders automatically.
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(03-15-06)
This is the first of a two-part tutorial that constructs an Amazon storefront using PHP and the Amazon E-Commerce Service (ECS). The storefront constructed will allow shoppers to view items displayed in lists or search for specific items in the store. Part 2 will cover the shopping cart, recommendation service, and constructing a collectibles shop.
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(10-30-06)
The developerWorks team would like to let you know that the brand new WebSphere Application Server Community Edition Version 1.1 is now available for download. Version 1.1 preintegrates Tomcat and offers support for Ajax, PHP, and JSE 1.5, to accelerate your application development. You can download this free software today and start producing applications without the need for any messy budget approvals! And you can rest easy knowing that IBM offers technical support contacts starting at just $900 USD.
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(12-13-06)
Four new technology offerings from IBM let you create and use enterprise-class PHP to simplify SOA and enterprise development and deployment.
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(11-29-06)
In this increasingly virtual online world, you have to be careful to protect your data. Learn the basics of encoding and encrypting important bits of information, such as passwords, credit card numbers, and even entire messages. Get an overview of what it means to encrypt and decrypt information, as well as some practical examples involving passwords and other data, using PHP's built-in functionality.
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(11-29-06)
In this article, you learn how to interact with IBM Lotus Domino databases from Web applications created with the PHP programming language. You also learn how to access Domino applications from PHP pages using a COM object, the IBM Lotus Notes application programming interface (API), and XML. Code examples for each method are included in the Downloads section. The XML method also has a downloadable example application with a simple Web interface to an IBM Lotus Domino mail database (see figure 1).
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(11-29-06)
Test-driven development and unit tests are the latest way to make sure your code is behaving as you expect through changes and refactoring. Find out how to unit test your PHP code at the module, database, and user interface (UI) level.
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(11-29-06)
The buzzword of 2006 is Web 2.0. What that means is hotly debated, but it appears to refer to cool dynamic Web applications. Those Web applications -- often developed in PHP -- use dynamic HTML (DHTML) to create pages that move and change without having to go back to the server for a refresh. Author Jack Herrington explains how to get started in this "Devise Web 2.0 applications with PHP and DHTML" series.
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(11-29-06)
Part 1 of this "Devise Web 2.0 applications with PHP and DHTML" series discusses how to build PHP applications with user interface elements like tabs, spinners, and pop-ups using JavaScript, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), and HTML. Part 2 extends the lesson to include graphing techniques that use JavaScript to create new HTML elements on the fly.
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