php script

Up until now, our application is simplistic as there is only one page. To spice things up a little bit, let's go crazy and add another page that says goodbye:

Kevin Schroeder has a method in one of his latest posts for hooking your linux-based system into Zend's phpcloud platform, complete with an automatic upload (so you're not constantly sftp-ing).

In a new post to his blog Brian Moon describes a need he had for detecting if the client or user calling a PHP script was using an interactive terminal (TTY) or not:

Just a quick post to mention the excellent work by Norman Hippert aka @thewildcat, he successfully converted my Javascript based CSSReg into PHP.

I was meaning to do this but never found the time so it’s pretty awesome that not only did thewildcat convert the code but found some nice bugs in my code and fixed them.

Great work Norman thanks very much!

PHP CSSReg demo

On JavaWorld they've posted a look at command-line PHP support including a few sample scripts to get you started:

In a recent post to his blog Ian Barber looks at applying Benford's Law in PHP to determine if the dataset you're working with is "real" or not.

Chad Lung has posted an introduction to PDO, PHP Data Objects, in a simple PHP script:

On SpeckBoy.com there's a new tutorial posted that introduces you to the concept of CRUD - Create, Read, Update, Delete - in the database interface for your application.

Technically CRUD can be applied to any sort of data store, but they chose to go with a MySQL-based example.

Jim Plush has a new post to his blog today that points out a bit of code you can use to auto-create issues in Jira from your PHP application.

To make use of multiple cores for some rather long processing operations I needed a way to fork multiple workers from a single PHP script multiple times lately.

So I created a small project on github which implements this in a way, so that it should reusable by anybody.

Read more for the details…