terry chay

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

• Pureform Blog: Memcache & MySQL PHP Session Handler
• Ibuildings Blog: PHP is NOW
• NETTUTS.com: 15 Wonderfully Creative Uses for PHP
• PHPFreaks.com: Simple SQL Search
• IBuildings Blog: TestFest 2009
• Juozas Kaziukenas' Blog:

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

• Jonathan Snook's Blog: Building a URL Shortener (with CakePHP)
• Rob Allen's Blog: Zend Framework Tutorial Update & Autoloader Gotcha
• Inside DealTaker Blog: Kohana PHP 2.3.x Tutorial Part 1
• Amazon Web Services: Introduction to AWS for PHP Developers
• Community News: phpanyw

Popular posts from PHPDeveloper.org for the past week:

• Rob Allen's Blog: Zend Framework on a shared host
• Terry Chay's Blog: Who puts the P in LAMP?
• Giorgio Sironi's Blog: Practical PHP Patterns
• Paul Jones' Blog: Solar Models vs.

In a new post to his blog Terry Chay looks at the real cost of a (call to) date() - the PHP function that can parse either the current or an inputted timestamp out into the date format you specify.

In this recent post to his blog Terry Chay points out one way he (and Tagged) used to help prevent things like "unknown class" errors in their code - lazy loading.

The php|architect crew have announced news talks that have been added to the php|tek 2009 conference schedule in their final version of the schedule.