JpGraph - Most powerful PHP-driven charts Ten PHP Best Practices Tips that will get you a job | PHP vs .Net Posted by blake on Jun 4, 2008 in Code, Performance, PHP | 167 comments The last couple of weeks have been quite the experience for me. I was part of a big layoff at my former company, which was interesting. I've never been in that position before, and it's hard not to take it personally. I started watching the job boards, and a nice-looking full-time PHP position caught my eye, so I sent out a resume and landed an interview. Before the face-to-face portion, I chatted with the owner and head programmer on a conference call, and they ended up sending me a technical assessment quiz. Find the errors in the following code: So, give it a shot. If you got the missing comma in the parameter list, the "new Array()" error, the colon instead of a semi-colon, the '=' instead of '=>' in the foreach statement, and the erroneous use of '+' on the echo line, then congratulations, you found all the errors! That's not how I answered the question though. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. … sorry, pet peeve.
DevNetwork Forums • Index page Tutorials Zend Server Web API spotlight: Connecting to a Zend Server cluster part 2 Hey everybody, In a previous post I introduced the serverAddToCluster Web API action which allows us to initiate clusters and join existing ones with Zend Server. That post showed some code and discussed how the clustering process is started; now I will talk about how we should track the progress of our cluster and deal with […] Continue reading... PHP 101: PHP For the Absolute Beginner p. Continue reading... XML- RPC Client This tutorial teaches you, step-by-step, how to build an XML-RPC client in PHP using the XML-RPC library written by Edd Dumbill. A primer is included to introduce the basics of the XML-RPC specification. Continue reading... VIDEO : Behavior Driven Development with Behat Behavior Driven Development with Behat Unit tests give you a good base to ensure your classes are working technically correct. Continue reading... Installing and Configuring Zend Server 6 on Apple Mac OSX Continue reading...
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Top 20+ MySQL Best Practices Database operations often tend to be the main bottleneck for most web applications today. It's not only the DBA's (database administrators) that have to worry about these performance issues. We as programmers need to do our part by structuring tables properly, writing optimized queries and better code. Before we start, be aware that you can find a ton of useful MySQL scripts and utilities on Envato Market. Most MySQL servers have query caching enabled. The main problem is, it is so easy and hidden from the programmer, most of us tend to ignore it. The reason query cache does not work in the first line is the usage of the CURDATE() function. Using the EXPLAIN keyword can give you insight on what MySQL is doing to execute your query. The results of an EXPLAIN query will show you which indexes are being utilized, how the table is being scanned and sorted etc... Take a SELECT query (preferably a complex one, with joins), and add the keyword EXPLAIN in front of it. From MySQL docs:
PHP include() and require() Write your own PHP MVC Framework (Part 1) | anant garg What is MVC? From Wikipedia– Model–View–Controller (MVC) is an architectural pattern used in software engineering. In simpler words- 1. Why should I write my own framework? This tutorial is by no means a comprehensive/definitive solution to your framework needs. So why should you write your own framework? More importantly, you have complete control over your framework. Lets dive right in The Directory Structure Although we will not be a couple of directories mentioned above for this tutorial, we should have them in place for future expansion. application – application specific code config – database/server configuration db – database backups library – framework code public – application specific js/css/images scripts – command-line utilities tmp – temporary data Once we have our directory structure ready, let us understand a few coding conventions. Coding Conventions 1. mySQL tables will always be lowercase and plural e.g. items, cars 2. Now we add index.php to our public folder view.php add.php
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15 very useful PHP code snippets for PHP developers | ViralPatel.net Following are list of 15 most useful PHP code snippets that a PHP developer will need at any point in his career. Few of the snippets are shared from my projects and few are taken from useful php websites from internet. You may also want to comment on any of the code or also you can share your code snippet through comment section if you think it may be useful for others. 1. Send Mail using mail function in PHP 2. 3. The above code will not work in case your client is behind proxy server. 4. This function will return the duration of the given time period in days, hours, minutes and seconds. e.g. secsToStr(1234567) would return “14 days, 6 hours, 56 minutes, 7 seconds” 5. 6. Required Extension: SimpleXML 7. 8. Following is the PHP code to create the JSON data format of above example using array of PHP. Following code will parse the JSON data into PHP arrays. 9. 10. This basic snippet will create a random authentication code, or just a random string. 11. Validate a date in “YYYY-MM-DD” format.
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