Build Your Own Database Driven Web Site Using PHP & MySQL Author Kevin Yank is a seasoned writer, who delivers a masterful explanation of how to program with PHP, in a tutorial-style format. The book is easy to follow and is specifically written for beginners. Sitepoint books are known in the community for their paramount [...]
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Thursday, November 11th, 2010Serious PHP debugging With XDebug
Saturday, May 8th, 2010Any serious PHP developer should use a debugging tool. Applications are becoming more complex, using OOP, and spanning more files. This post will quickly bring you up to speed and give you the most awesome debugging tools on the planet. I have been using Zend Server CE for local development. It has all the bells [...]
Introduction to CakePHP for Designers: Part II
Monday, March 1st, 2010In the first tutorial, I covered basic foundations of views, and set out create a simple task management application. This tutorial will focus on controllers, which interact with both views and models. The process of the MVC framework is a simple paradigm, where controllers handle requests, get data from the model as needed, and process [...]
Introduction to CakePHP for Web Designers
Tuesday, December 8th, 2009CakePHP hits the sweet-spot for many of my projects. The conventions and “baked” in classes are huge productivity boosters. Even if you just intend of working with visual elements on a CakePHP project (views), this series will walk you through hands-on lessons of building a simple task management application with CakePHP.
Shrink your JavaScript/CSS in WordPress with PHP
Saturday, October 24th, 2009I came across a very simple, yet elegant solution for shrinking JavaScript and CSS files with PHP. When large JavaScript frameworks are the order of the day, why not optimize? In this post I’ll show you how to easily apply this script to your Wordpress theme; shrinking your CSS/JavaScript assets by around 300%!