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On the Web Builder Zone (from DZone) Giorgio Sironi has posted a new article that talks about the different kinds of testing you can do on your application – both on the frontend and backend. Automated testing supports your constant effort in design and refactoring, and besides that ensures that your application actually works in
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On the Zend Developer Zone today there’s the first part of a series from Vic Cherubini about an ORM tool he’s created to make pulling data from your database of choice (via PDO objects) simpler – DataModler. This first part looks at creating testable models. DataModeler allows you to create easily testable Models that are
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On the Zend Developer Zone there’s a new post by Vikram Vaswani about a method for creating PDF files directly from a Zend Framework application (hint: it uses Zend_Pdf). PHP comes with a number of options to help developers dynamically generate PDF files from within their applications. The Haru and PDFlib extensions offer a complete
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Jani Hartikainen has pointed out a new application that can run on the iPad and allows you to write PHP without having to write out a single line of code. Yes, you heard that right! You can now code in PHP without having to write a single line of code ‘” amazing, right? The application
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On Developer.com today there’s a new tutorial about Quercus – the Java-based implementation of PHP – and how to get it up and running in your environment. Imagine the possibilities when a PHP developer can continue using the language’s templating capabilities while leveraging Hibernate‘s object-relational features. Thanks to an open source project named Quercus, PHP
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On his blog today Matt Williams has a quick tutorial about setting up your CodeIgniter application to use the new oAuth authentication feature that Twitter with the help of this library. On August 31st Twitter will be axing basic auth GET requests, which is being overtaken by the more secure oAuth, there are a few
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Christoph Dorn has a new post about using his recently released FirePHP Companion to get a better perspective on how your application works with its cache (information like the location of the cache file). I thought I would rework the example I included in my php|architect article. You will see how much easier it now
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In a new post to the Zend Developer Zone today the NP-Gravatar libraries are introduced as a way to hook your application into the Gravatar web service. Gravatar is a famous web-service for providing globally-unique avatars. Gravatar, like many other web services, has its own APIs, which are based on simple HTTP GET requests. [...]
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On PHPBuilder.com today there’s a list of ten tools that can help you increase your productivity in your PHP development including ones for testing, automation and debugging. Frustration can quickly set in when you are dealing with menial and often repetitive tasks such as manual code testing and deployment, yet you strive to become a
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Matt Williams has a new post to his blog with his own fix to a problem he was having with his CodeIgniter application – the continuous session logouts. For weeks I tolerated the annoyance of CodeIgniter’s Session library logging my out continuously, saying to myself “I works…kind of…I’ll fix it later”. Eventually the problem started