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Use PHP to convert Twitter to RSS
Thursday, August 19, 2010 @ 16:05:49 CEST by tw45admin (143 reads) |  On the surface, Twitter is basically a cut-down blogging service. You have users who post tweets. Tweets are limited to 140 characters and are date- and time-stamped. Users can follow each other, which is basically a simplified syndication service. Information about Twitter accounts and associated timelines and tweets are available not only to standard Web interfaces, but also to third-party applications via the Twitter API. This API exposes Twitter data and services via either a Representational State Transfer (REST) API or a search API.
Everything you need to know is at IBM's DeveloperWorks.
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Build Web sites fast with CakePHP
Tuesday, August 03, 2010 @ 18:47:28 CEST by tw45admin (165 reads) | This "Cook up Web sites fast with CakePHP" series is designed for PHP application developers who want to start using CakePHP to make their lives easier. In the end, you will have learned how to install and configure CakePHP, the basics of Model-View-Controller (MVC) design, how to validate user data in CakePHP, how to use CakePHP helpers, and how to get an application up and running quickly using CakePHP. It might sound like a lot to learn, but don't worry — CakePHP does most of it for you.
This multi-part tutorial is found at IBM's DeveloperWorks.
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30 game scripts you can write in PHP
Thursday, July 29, 2010 @ 20:12:44 CEST by tw45admin (129 reads) | PHP is an easy-to-use, easy-to-learn, widely accessible programming language. It's well suited to developing simple scripts you can use to help you in all kinds of games. Whether you play simple pen-and-paper games by yourself, complex tabletop role-playing games with a group of people, or online games of any kind, this series will have something for you. This article will build on Part 1 of this "30 game scripts you can write in PHP" series, exploring 10 intermediate scripts that can be used in various types of games. These scripts are intended for three types of games: role-playing games, games of chance, and word games.
Find Part I of this series and read all of Part II at IBM's DeveloperWorks.
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Five good programming habits in PHP
Tuesday, July 27, 2010 @ 21:35:07 CEST by tw45admin (158 reads) | Depending on whom you ask, the difference between a good developer and an excellent developer, in terms of productivity, is a factor of 10 to 20. An excellent developer is more productive because of his experience and good habits. When poor programming habits sneak into your code, they're a drain on productivity. This article demonstrates some good programming habits that can make you a better programmer. In addition to enabling you to build code more productively, these habits can help you build code sustainable for an application's lifetime. Any code you write is likely to spend most of its lifetime in maintenance; application maintenance is a large expense. Establishing good coding habits will enhance design factors like modularity, and your code will be easier to understand and, thus, easier and cheaper to maintain.
IBM's DeveloperWorks has the rest.
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Deciphering Magic Methods in PHP
Tuesday, July 27, 2010 @ 00:20:20 CEST by tw45admin (154 reads) | PHP provides a number of ‘magic’ methods that allow you to do some pretty neat tricks in object oriented programming. These methods, identified by a two underscore prefix (__), function as interceptors that are automatically called when certain conditions are met. Magic methods provide some extremely useful functionality, and this tutorial will demonstrate each method’s use. In order to fully understand magic methods, it’s helpful to see them in action. So let’s start with a base set of very simple classes. Here we define two classes: Device and Battery.
The full tutorial, plus a download for the source files, can be found at net tuts plus.
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Android PHP option planned for Javaphobes
Friday, July 16, 2010 @ 13:52:00 CEST by tw45admin (211 reads) | PHP is coming to Google's Android phones for those averse to programming in Java or going native. The PHP for Android (PFA) site says here that its goal is to make PHP development in Android "not only possible but also feasible providing tools and documentation." The project's main sponsor is open-source and Linux specialist IronTec, who said it's following the Zend model of PHP programming. PFA uses the Scripting Layer for Android (SL4A), previously known as Androd Scripting Environment (ASE), which PFA has updated to work with PHP.
The rest of this story can be found at The Register.
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Jump-start your PHP applications with the Eclipse PHP Class Generator plug-in
Friday, June 25, 2010 @ 22:50:12 CEST by tw45admin (290 reads) | PHP classes can sometimes still be a black box, a big unknown to many new and some old-school PHP developers. But it doesn't have to be that way. Classes help modularize code and remove extraneous copies of code scattered throughout the code base by placing the code into functions within classes. This helps make maintaining your code much easier. That's what the PHP Class Generator plug-in for Eclipse helps PHP developers do: generate PHP classes to help manage database tables, so you don't have to, which helps speed up the learning curve.
Discovered at IBM's DeveloperWorks.
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15 years of PHP
Thursday, June 10, 2010 @ 13:03:51 CEST by tw45admin (309 reads) | Fifteen years ago today, on the 8th of June, 1995, Rasmus Lerdorf launched PHP with a post to the comp.infosystems.www.authoring.cgi Usenet news group. He announced version 1.0 of his "Personal Home Page Tools", software that was originally intended for managing job applications on a web site. As Lerdorf made the tools available as open source code (originally under the GPL, since version 4.0 under the PHP Licence) his PHP software, written in C, was bound to find a wide audience.
PHP commentary and history courtesy of h-online.com.
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9 Useful PHP Functions and Features You Need to Know
Friday, April 30, 2010 @ 21:47:51 CEST by tw45admin (120 reads) | Even after using PHP for years, we stumble upon functions and features that we did not know about. Some of these can be very useful, yet underused. Not all of us have read the manual and the function reference from cover to cover! Functions with Arbitrary Number of Arguments: You may already know that PHP allows you to define functions with optional arguments. But there is also a method for allowing completely arbitrary number of function arguments. First, here is an example with just optional arguments...
Finish reading this PHP tutorial at net.tutsplus.com.
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Python basics for PHP developers
Friday, April 23, 2010 @ 23:53:11 CEST by tw45admin (212 reads) | You're a PHP developer. You've probably been writing applications for the past five years (or longer), and you've built just about everything imaginable — e-commerce systems, simple content-management systems, Twitter and Facebook integrations, and a host of custom utilities. You've probably maintained a lot of code, too — everything from simple display pages to custom applications with tens of thousands of lines somebody else wrote. Because you've spent so much time working in PHP, it's doubtful that you're going to jump ship to another language. But you also know that standing still is the one sure recipe for disaster in this field.
To quote Woody Allen from his film Annie Hall, "A relationship is like a shark, it has to keep constantly moving forward to survive.." So does your skill set as a programmer. Why Python? Find that answer at IBM's DeveloperWorks.
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