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Lorna Mitchell is back with another post in her "Building a RESTful PHP Server" series today with this new post showing how to work with output handlers (her focus is on JSON).

On her blog today Lorna Mitchell has a quick tip for anyone having an issue sending POSTed JSON data with the curl functionality that can be built into PHP.

The trick to her method is sending things with the right header.

The PHP North West User Group ran it’s 4th (and largest yet!) PHP conference – PHPNW11 in Manchester last weekend.

This year’s conference line-up was particularly strong, both with the quality of speaker and the quality of topics, but there was one talk in particular that topped them all.

It all began with Rowan’s laptop …

I help people qualify for Zend Certification and in the last few months I've had questions about both ArrayAccess and ArrayObject.

This post is an attempt to illuminate both.

In very simple terms, ArrayAccess is an interface, which you can implement in your own objects; ArrayObject, on the other hand, is a class, which you can either use or extend.

As of a few days ago, and following Chris' post, I am now the proud owner of an open source project. These things don't build themselves and whenever I look at the project as it stands, I'm blown away by what Chris has built over these years, and I can only thank him for that (he's not vanishing, just stepping away from the big-picture tasks).

I've been looking around for a really simple API that would be a nice place to get started using web services from PHP - and I realised that bit.ly actually fits the bill really well.

They have straightforward api docs on google code, and it's also a pretty simple function!

Lorna Mitchell has a new post today spotlighting a handy feature of the phpMyAdmin tool - the visual designer view.

It allows you to build (and see) the relationships between your MySQL-based application's elements.

We might still be in the thick of the summer conference season, but there's an event coming up this autumn which has me very excited: PHP North West 2011.

This is a regional PHP conference based in Manchester, UK, and I've been involved with it since it began (I'm surprised to find this is our fourth edition, it still feels like a shiny new adventure!).

This year the dates are 8th and 9th of October and with an added tutorial day on the Friday, it is bigger (and of course better) than ever.

In case you missed the announcements, here are the main things you need to know:

Following the principle of "release early, release often", I put live a very early version of the v2 API for joind.in today (so that I can use it in another project!).

I haven't updated the documentation yet but in case anyone was thinking of consuming data from joind.in, this at least gives you an idea of the direction of the project so I thought I'd share.

Things you need to know:

• The service is an HTTP Web Service.
  
  Meaning it's RESTful apart from when it isn't
• The endpoint is here: http://api.joind.in

disclaimer: I am not underestimating the universe's ability to produce idiots, the point I'm trying to make is that I haven't managed to make any deploy mistakes using this approach.

Yet.

Once upon a time, a long time ago, I went onto a conference stage for the very first time and said that I thought I might be the world's ditsiest PHP developer.

I actually still think that is pretty true, and if you work with me then you will know that I mostly break and fix things in approximately equal measure.