PHP - MYSQL - LAMP stuff

Webinar - Better Performance, Simpler Debugging: The New Zend Server 5 in Action!

Zend feed for PHP news & articles - Wed, 2010-02-24 16:39
Zend Server 5 takes PHP performance and troubleshooting to a new level. With job queue you can schedule recurring tasks or offload long-running scripts to other servers for improved resource utilization. With code tracing you can quickly debug issues without having to reproduce problems, even when they occur in production! Join us for a walkthrough and live demonstrations of the Zend Server 5 on February 25, at 9AM PST .

Dynamically Attaching Files with Swift Mailer

Dev Shed Articles - Wed, 2010-02-24 14:00
In this eighth part of a ten-part series on the Swift Mailer email library, you'll learn how to attach files that have been dynamically generated to an email message. In addition, you'll see how to use Swift Mailer's setFileName() method to modify the name of an attachment before it's sent, which speaks for itself about this library's flexibility.
- In case you havent heard about it yet, Swift Mailer is a comprehensive library written in PHP 5 and freely available at http://swiftmailer.org. It allows you to develop email applications very quickly and with minor effort, through a cohesive and highly intuitive programming interface. So, if your...

Anna Filina's Blog: PHP 5.3 on OSX (XAMPP over MAMP)

Zend feed for PHP news & articles - Wed, 2010-02-24 05:10
Anna Filina has posted a new item to her blog about some of her experiences with PHP 5.3 on the OS X platform including some of the different software she tried (like the Symfony framework ).

Learning Python Gets 9/10 on Slashdot - "This book continues to be Python's bible."

O'Reilly ONLamp - Tue, 2010-02-23 15:28
Slashdot reviewer Ahmed Al-Saadi gives Learning Python, Fourth Edition, by Mark Lutz, a 9/10 rating, and says, "Like many O'Reilly books, this is a well-written, coherent, and beautifully type-set book. I highly recommend it to anyone who wants to, or already does, program using python. It should help the novice in the transition to an excellent programming language or, otherwise, make an already familiar environment more powerful in the hands of veterans." Read more.

Using Different Paths for Attachments with Swift Mailer

Dev Shed Articles - Tue, 2010-02-23 14:00
Welcome to the seventh tutorial of a series on Swift Mailer. Comprised of ten parts, this series introduces you gently to using this thorough PHP5-based email package. It complements the corresponding theory with numerous code samples that you can incorporate into your own PHP applications.
- If youre a PHP developer whos looking for an approachable guide that teaches you how to take advantage of the most relevant features provided by the powerful Swift Mailer email library (available at http://swiftmailer.org), then this group of tutorials might be the material that you really need. ...

Zend Developer Zone Revamp - Start!

Zend feed for PHP news & articles - Mon, 2010-02-22 18:56
The Zend Developer Zone Revamp is now underway with project infrastructure in place, and the first lines of code committed. Track the progress through the ZDZ Revamp tag covering specific news on the revamp along with articles written around the ever expanding codebase and samples.

Adrian Schneider's Blog: Zend Framework Models - Part 1: Concepts

Zend feed for PHP news & articles - Mon, 2010-02-22 18:54
Adrian Schneider has started up a new series of posts on his blog today with part of of his look at models in the Zend Framework .

Handling Attachments and Sending HTML Email Messages with Swift Mailer

Dev Shed Articles - Mon, 2010-02-22 14:00
In this sixth article of a series I discuss how to handle file attachments and sending HTML email messages with the Swift Mailer library. As you'll soon see, performing these tasks is a very straightforward process.
- If you're an experienced PHP developer, then you know that coding functions or classes that send MIME email is one of those things that you want to do only once in your lifetime. This process often requires dealing indirectly (or directly, when programming TCP sockets) with the complexities of the...

CNet.com: PHP and Perl crashing the enterprise party

Zend feed for PHP news & articles - Wed, 2010-02-17 22:22
According to Matt Asay , both PHP and Perl are crashing the enterprise party and are rapidly closing the gap between themselves and some of the more traditional "enterprise-ish" tools out there (like Java or .NET).