php programmers

Here's what was popular in the PHP community one year ago today:

• Henri Bergius' Blog: PHP: Finally getting an ecosystem?
• Mike Willbanks' Blog: Android C2DM with PHP and Zend Framework
• Ruslan Yakushev's Blog: How to install PHP PEAR and phploc on Windows
• Label Media Blog: Design Patterns in PHP - Factory method
• SimasToleikis' Blog: New

In my Beyond Frameworks talk, I explained how a component-based architecture can

Popular posts from PHPDeveloper.org for the past week:

• SitePoint PHP Blog: Top 10 MySQL Mistakes Made by PHP Developers
• Mashable.com: 8 Experts Break Down the Pros and Cons of Coding With PHP
• phpRiot.com: Using Callback Functions in PHP
• SimasToleikis' Blog: New to PHP 5.4: Traits
• Blitz Agency Blog: REST Service Routing with PHP and Ap

I was amazed at the response to my recent article, Should You Close Your PHP Code Tags? I didn’t think it would be controversial or cause so much debate among developers!

To recap, closing PHP tags (?>) are entirely optional if you’re coding a PHP-only file and there’s no intermingled html.

Files containing single class definitions are good candidates.

Are you feeling idle these days? Do you have a deep gnawing feeling to do something before you go nuts? Playing the same old maps in Modern Warfare 2 night in and night out deperately trying to keep boredom at bay?

Then today we have great news, because for the low low price of $0 (excl. ISP charges) you are invited to spend some of your free time contributing to Zend Framework 2.0.

That's right! It's free! We'll even throw in free access to Github.com and a free Getting Started With Git Guide!

Here’s a quick question for the wider PHP programming community … if you’re writing code that tests for the presence of an array, should is_array() also accept objects that behave like a

From the Prescot Linux blog today there's a new post with some advice on hiring a good PHP developer for you or your company.

Chris Roane has a suggestion to all of the PHP developers out there - stop whining and shut up!

According to this article in The Register, more PHP developers (of the ones polled by Zend) prefer to do their actual development on a Windows platform, but still host their sites on something like Linux (as shown in the results of a Zend survey).

Popular posts from PHPDeveloper.org for the past week:

• Wes Shell's Blog: Quicky 1: PHP is Loosely Typed '" What does that Mean?
• Ladislav Prskavec's Blog: PHP and Hudson
• PHPBuilder.com: A Look Into Web Services
• KomunitasWeb.com: Ultimate Collection of PHP Libraries
• Content with Style Blog: Zend Framework DB and Mysql pre 5.17
• <