PHP Programming

Tired of the “techie” trying to explain to you what web hosting is all about from his bedroom-recorded Skype video? Ever get confused with all the funny terms they drop, like “Shared Hosting” and “Dedicated Servers”?…

In the previous parts of this series, you learned what REST is, how to develop a RESTful application, and how to consume RESTful services. We’re getting close to the end now, and the only thing remaining is to discuss a little more about the protocol you’ll most likely use in any RESTful application that you [...]

This tutorial will cover the basics of CSS regions, which allow us to flow content within various sections of the page. Confused? You probably are; read on!

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CSS Region Support
At the time of this writing, the CSS Regi…

Dealing with the oddities of a layer of Data Mappers is quite a burden, often dropped into a “code once/use forever” strategy. The situation can become more awkward when the model starts to bloat and increase in complexity, since additional mappers will be added over time. See how to build a repository from scratch so that you can see its inner workings and how it can tame such problems.

This tutorial will help you prepare a Magento install for high traffic, better load times, and simpler ongoing site management. Ready?

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You can download the finished code for this tutorial, or launch the “magento-basic” Quicks…

In part 1 of this two-part series discussing SPL Iterators you’ll see how you can take advantage of some of the built-in classes from the Standard PHP Library (SPL) making your code more efficient and readable.

This is part three in a four-part series exploring REST. After looking at REST from a theoretical perspective and then how you might go about building a REST-oriented system, the series now shows you how to consume such services.

This tutorial will cover the process of creating a basic Joomla module from an existing widget. We’re going to take a widget from Mixcloud, learn how to convert it into a Joomla module and, finally, distribute the extension to JED (Joomla Extensi…

There’s a new player in town, and he brought new toys: The PHP World welcomes FLOW3, an enterprise application framework written and backed by the community of the TYPO3 CMS. FLOW3 can be used as standalone full-stack framework for your applicati…

The Dependency Inversion Principle talks about making both high and low-level modules dependent on abstractions, but at the same time the high-level modules must have ownership of those abstractions – a subtle yet often overlooked detail. This article shows you how you can fully adhere to the DIP in a pragmatic way in PHP, something that will surely make your applications a lot less vulnerable to future fragility and rigidity issues.