IntroductionJohn runs a small marketing firm. He, along with five other employees, manages most of the company's operations from sales to customer service. When John decided to use Internet as a marketing medium to attract more customers, he knew he didn't have the expertise to build a website himself nor could …

Congratulations – you've landed your first big enterprise client. Now you need to do what you said you'd do, and make everyone happy in the process. This article will show you how to use techniques for visibility and verification to do most things – setting up processes and systems, doing QA …

When a PHP application is developed and ready for distribution/installation the developer often finds himself writing a brief installation guide, at least if the application is intended to be installed on many systems.This article describes how to write an install script in PHP that will enable non-programmers to perform the installation …

Though surmountable, the process of deciding the most appropriate templating system for a web-application often unduly burdens developers, for the PHP community is rife with templating engines, and advocacy often hinders developers’ attempts to find the appropriate tools. Since existing templating engines were built to solve different problems, none are a …

Why Use Python in PHP?There are a number of benefits to using Python from within PHP. First, it allows a site’s Python components to be integrated with a PHP front-end. For example, a site may have a collection of back-end processing code written in Python. The use of the Python extension …

This topic is one that is often sidestepped in favor of a quicker or more unilingual solution, but with the internet being home to all nationalities, a quick investment in some friendly translations could be worth its weight in gold for PR or added sales.The convincing arguments against localization are varied, …

On their way to developing their small, fast and popular Database Server MySQL, AB made a huge step towards a modern RDBMS (Relational Database Management System) that meets any demand.MySQL is well known and popular because of it’s speed. Web-Developers, especially, appreciate the rapid processing of simple SELECT, INSERT and UPDATE …

Where do they come from? What do they do? Where do they go? phpOpenTracker helps you to find answers to these and other questions. This is an inside look at the premiere Open Source solution for traffic and visitor analysis with PHP.Website Traffic Analysis is important for both the administrator and …

The PHP Java extension provides the necessary API to interfere with Java. It enables you to instantiatearbitrary Java objects just like you would instantiate a na tive PHP class. You can access properties and invoke methods the same way as normal. Based on this, you are able to use all the …

After some very unsatisfactory experiences with XSLT, the author of this article set out to create similar functionality in a sane programming language.As the author sees PHP as a relatively sane language, the world is now stuck with XML_Transformer, a PEAR class that slices and dices XML.XSLT is a domain specific …

IntroductionPHP is no different from other programming languages in that there is self-taught education and there is professionally taught education. But with PHP and other open source languages, the cost justification for professionally taught instruction is steep.Besides, the availability of Internet sites with programming tips makes learning PHP quick and easy. …

IntroductionAccording to Wikipedia, “SAP is the third-largest software company in the world. It ranks after Microsoft and Oracle in terms of market capitalization. SAP is the largest business application and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution software provider in terms of revenue.” The good news for PHP developers is that you can …

This will be XML. It has the potential to connect systems and applications from different vendors running on different platforms in different locations. It is well documented, readable and transportable by nearly every network protocol capable of exchanging blocks of ASCII text. But it is no panacea curing weak system architecture. …

Since Linux, Open Source softwares have demonstrated that they are viable solutions for both maintaining and developing software. With open source software, bugs are being tracked and eradicated by a large number of users. Contributions are gathered and benefit to everyone. And above all, the project itself cannot be sunk by …