On 09.01.09, In PHP Tutorials, by Andrei Gabreanu
A quick overview of PHP 5.2 OOP features. It is a good start for anyone who wants to understand about OOP but hasn’t started learning it so far.
On 08.05.09, In PHP Tutorials, by Andrei Gabreanu
Really now.. SOAP is so outdated. Its complicated, hard to understand, hard to use, hard to develop. REST is the new thing, its trendy. Why? What it more easier then making a request to a URL via 1 of 4 protocols, using basic AUTH. (either HTTP or Cookie based) and using any type of encoding (xml / json / plaintext) you wish. With REST you can make a basic client <> server application within minutes while with SOAP, you code days and days …
On 07.15.09, In PHP Tutorials, by Andrei Gabreanu
Webservices exist for a while now. They are often used behind major application that the internet user visits and uses each day. They are not visible to the ordinary user but they are a strong point in the development of new applications and in the process of creating relationships between various services offered on the [...]
On 07.13.09, In PHP Tutorials, by Andrei Gabreanu
1. Introduction CakePHP’s localization system maybe good & performant, but it is also abit hard to implement/adjust and maintain. Most of the time, us developers will want to have a simple system to change the languages used, to change the words for each language and to debug the localization system. In the following minutes, we [...]
On 05.24.09, In PHP Tutorials, by Andrei Gabreanu
Ever got a project which was already started but you had to finish it? If so, you must know how much anger can a non commented code bring to a developer. This article is meant to advice developers into creating and updating comments for each line of code they write. For example here is my [...]
On 05.23.09, In PHP Tutorials, by Andrei Gabreanu
After the previous article regarding the power of NetBeans, today we will talk abit about integrating NetBeans with CakePHP. Basically our problem with NetBeans occurs when we want code competition in our controller but we have model-based methods and properties. Also, if we want Cake’s functions and properties also then the same problem arrises.
On 05.09.09, In PHP Tutorials, by Andrei Gabreanu
When i started to develop php, i mostly done my work within the usual notepad. Afterward i felt the need to have syntax highlighting so i switched to some free text editors which supports php. My first stable editor that i used for nearly 2 years was Zend Studio (Dreamweaver was also a choice but [...]
On 05.06.09, In PHP Tutorials, by Andrei Gabreanu
If you don’t know what uploadify is, it is an excellent script (looks good also by default) that lets you override the default file browser into an input that looks great, is flexible and uses Jquery, Flash and PHP. It allows you to upload multiple files simultaneously, shows a progress bar and is very easy [...]
On 04.19.09, In PHP Tutorials, by Andrei Gabreanu
When you develop web applications or user friendly websites (you should always do this when creating a site) you’ll encounter the need to add javascript to you project. Now, we all know and it is recommended that you shouldn’t write pure javascript code anymore (unless you really need to) but use a framework. Jquery is [...]
On 04.17.09, In PHP Tutorials, by Andrei Gabreanu
Hello CakePHP users! With this first article, i will start the series of tutorials including some freebies so that your work with this excelent easy to user framework will be piece of “cake” . What i am about to show you in this tutorial is something rather simple, not based on php code but on [...]