Tag: PHP

Yea, I know you're already bringing your stikkits with you on your notebook, but I'm talking about putting them in your pocket using that 'paper' stuff. Aaron Straup Cope has whipped together two PHP files that can query Stikkit (which we're growing fond of) and create a printable, foldable and ultimately pocket-able version of all your stikkits. In a detailed post describing his thought process, ...

I have always wanted to see shoutboxes make their way farther across the internets. Hopefully YShout, and other systems like it, can help blaze the trail. YShout is a slim, powerful and standards-compliant shoutbox built on PHP and AJAX. Stylable through the beauty of CSS, installation and customization sound like a breeze. The feature list is also pretty extensive, though only the big new ...

The Zend PHP framework will now play nice with Google Data in a collaborative effort that puts the elves to shame. The component built by Google and Zend lives in the top level and not under Zend_service, which makes it more accessible and is mostly because the Gdata service is a protocol of its own, not merely a service wrapper. Google's component isn't the first to be included and follows the ...

I don't have to tell you what PHP is obviously, many of you could run circles around me. I don't have to tell you how widely used, versatile, or powerful it is either. All I need to tell you is that 5.2 is out. This release is mostly bug fixes, some new enhancements, just in case you were wondering or hadn't heard yet. PHP is my favorite web scripting language, and I jump all over it when new ...

Today Microsoft and Zend Technologies--the corporate face of ultra-popular web programming language PHP--announced a "technical collaboration to enhance the experience of running [PHP] on Windows Server 2003." The collaboration will entail technical improvements to Windows Server which will be released under the open source PHP license, Microsoft releasing a FastCGI component for IIS, Zend ...

I just about laughed my butt off reading this. I'll warn you by saying that you need to be a programmer to even "get" the list of language jokes on this page. Of course you will identify with several different languages than I did most likely, but it is a very funny, very enjoyable site to peruse. My non-programmer wife even enjoyed a few of them because some of them are just funny to read aloud. ...

phpMyAdmin is one of the best and most heavily used (at least on my desk) MySQL management tools. It makes everything you do in MySQL simple, and can be either desktop or web-based. Even LAMP installs have a portable, USB drive friendly version, which is one of my favorites. Sure, I love SQLyog, MySQL Administrator and other desktop based clients too, but none is as versatile and useful as ...

XAMPP is an easy to install web server distribution containing Apache, MySQL, PHP and Perl. It claims to be a snap to use and install. After I got through clicking like 20 times to find the actual file download link on the XAMPP site (hosted at sourceforge), which irritated me a bit, the process got a bit better. You can download three different versions of the file, the installer (32MB), the zip ...

I am certainly no PHP-slinging WordPress guru, but I am pretty impressed at the promise of ThemesPress: converting your plain ol' HTML and CSS layout into a fully-functional WordPress theme. After a simple 4-step process involving uploading your layout's images and code, you're able to preview your final template and make unlimited changes before dropping $10 for the service. They make it sound ...

TeamSlide is like WebEx, DimDim, ZohoShow, and others that let you present your slides online to viewers. TeamSlide is a full-screen slide-showing and viewing application that doesn't really compete with web-sharing applications, because it is just for slideshows. It is browser-based, so it is effectively cross-platform. It uses PHP and AJAX to weave its magical craft for you and your slide-show ...

Joe Stagner, Microsoft's "Opinionated Misfit Geek" gave keynote speech on Microsoft's ideas to allow PHP developers to use Windows for not only development but deployment as well. Most PHP developers use Linux for deployment, something Microsoft (of course) isn't happy about. PHP currently runs better on Linux than it does on Windows, which Microsoft hopes to change. Some functions of PHP don't ...

SAP's new download includes a bunch of open-source tools including RadRails, Eclipse, PHP/Ruby/Python code generators, and SAP's scripting tools. This shows the growing trend that large software companies are beginning to realize the huge value of free open-source frameworks and ideas. Eclipse and RadRails are excellent tools to use, even for the wizards at SAP so it only makes sense that they ...

From time to time I go looking for a good PHP tutorial to do something new, or just to polish up my hacking skills. I hit all the usual sites, but they get old after a while. Some tutorials they have are good, but others are just boring and not useful. I sometimes just want a new place to find a nugget or tidbit of knowledge. GoodPHPTutorials is just one such out of the way destination that has a ...

Scooch is a web-based slideshow app built using web standards. The online slideshow allows you to develop your very own slideshow of images. When the slideshow is published on your website, users can comment on photos in your set, and leave feedback. In order to run and develop slide shows with Scooch, users have to download the application files. The application is built using PHP, thus will ...

Think you could do better than del.icio.us, Furl, and Yahoo! My Web? Well, now's your chance: Scuttle is an open source social bookmarking engine that you can run on your own site. It's based on PHP and supports most of the del.icio.us protocol, meaning developers who have made tools for del.icio.us can easily adapt them to Scuttle. Unfortunately there's no unified feature list for Scuttle, but ...