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PHP Optimization Mistakes [pdf]
in PHP added by goodphptutorials, on 12/6/2010 beginner tutorials optimization php5
Presentation from the Dutch PHP conference 2010 about common optimizations mistakes in php
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State of the Zend Framework 2.0
in PHP added by goodphptutorials, on 10/6/2010 oo programming php5 zend framework
The past few months have kept myself and my team quite busy, as we've turned our attentions from maintenance of the Zend Framework 1.X series to Zend Framework 2.0. I've been fielding questions regularly about ZF2 lately, and felt it was time to talk about the roadmap for ZF2, what we've done so far, and how the community can help.
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Mixins in PHP
in PHP added by goodphptutorials, on 5/6/2010 advanced tutorials mixin php5
One of the concepts I like in Ruby is the concept of "mixins". Mixins are a way of 'mixing in' functionality of other classes. A kind of 'multiple inheritance' like approach, only without actual inheritance. It is similar to interfaces, but interfaces only tell you that an object must implement certain methods, whereas mixins also provide an implementation.
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Web Services for PHP Developers
in PHP added by goodphptutorials, on 1/6/2010 advanced tutorials php5 rest soap web service xml-rpc
In this world of sharing data, increasing numbers of sites and applications are making information available over web services. Whether we are building a service as a feature of our own development, or pulling in the information published by others, we will need to understand the different service types and how to work with them in PHP. This article aims to give you the tools to do just that.
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Accessing Amazon Product Advertising API
in PHP added by goodphptutorials, on 26/5/2010 Amazon advanced tutorials oo programming php5 web service
In this post we will see how to access the Amazon Product Advertising API from PHP. Amazon has recently changed (from 15th Aug '09) the authentication mechanism for accessing their API which must now be signed with your Amazon keys
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Writing an OAuth Provider Service
in PHP added by goodphptutorials, on 23/5/2010 oauth oo programming php5
Last year I showed how to use pecl/oauth to write a Twitter OAuth Consumer. But what about writing the other end of that? What if you need to provide OAuth access to an API for your site? How do you do it?
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Organize Your Project like a Pro with PHP Namespaces
in PHP added by goodphptutorials, on 20/5/2010 namespace oo programming php5
PHP took a huge step forward in June 2009 with the release of version 5.3. It wasn't quite as big of a change as version 5.0, but the release did introduce a number of new language features including namespaces — an addition that can dramatically improve the way you organize your PHP in an object oriented paradigm.
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PHP Integration with Salesforce CRM
in PHP added by goodphptutorials, on 19/5/2010 crm integration salesforce
If your primary clientele is small to medium business owners, as I imagine is the case for most professional developers these days, chances are you have developed custom applications that interact with Salesforce CRM. For those of you that have not had the delight of integrating with Salesforce, let's walk through the most common integration techniques.
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Doctrine MongoDB Object Document Mapper
in PHP added by goodphptutorials, on 15/5/2010 doctrine oo programming orm php5
A question asked to me many times by many different people over the last year is, "will Doctrine ever have any support for MongoDB?". I have never really had an answer because we haven't had any official plans to support it as it was so new to the database world and php so nobody really knew much about it yet.
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Decoding a User Space Encoded PHP Script
in PHP added by goodphptutorials, on 14/5/2010 advanced tutorials encryption security
Every once in a while a new PHP encryption tool/service pops up and offers PHP “encryption”. Therefore the idea behind php-crypt that was announced today in the PHP Development forum of Xing is nothing new. Infact there are two types of PHP encryption systems source code obfuscators/encryptors/encoders and bytecode obfuscators/encryptors/encoders.
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Tips for Working with DateTime in PHP
in PHP added by lornajane, on 9/5/2010 advanced tutorials date oo programming time tips
A few quick tips for working with PHP's DateTime classes, including instantiating the objects, outputting in various formats, and storing dates and times an an accurate and easy-to-use way
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Getting started with CouchDB: a beginner's guide
in PHP added by goodphptutorials, on 9/5/2010 beginner tutorials couchdb nosql
Have you ever dreamt about a powerful database that you can access easily, without using the SQL language? That what Apache CouchDB is all about. In this tutorial, I'm going to show you how to get started with this document-riented database and how you can use it with PHP.
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Writing a Custom Magento Module
in PHP added by lornajane, on 2/5/2010 advanced tutorials customisation ecommerce magento open source php zend framework
Magento module-building tutorial with example code shown and to download. Magento is an open source PHP ecommerce tool built on Zend Framework, this tutorial is a must-read for developers using this package
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PHP Design Patterns Reference and Examples
in PHP added by goodphptutorials, on 30/4/2010 advanced tutorials design pattern oo programming php5
Quite a comprehensive list of programming design patterns illustrated with code examples in PHP5
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