Ever wondered how long your PHP scripts were taking to execute? Or maybe you’ve broken the maximum execution time limit on your server, as defined in your php.ini’s max_execution_time directive. Well, dealing with PHP script execution time is actually quite easy. In this mini tutorial, I’ll show you how to measure your PHP script execution [...]
Developing in PHP isn’t a textbook science. There’s skill to it, and that skill comes from experience. Now, you could try your hand at every single PHP development challenge out there, or you could learn from the experiences of others, widely published on the web in blogs and developer portals. Here are seven websites you [...]
This Photoshop tutorial walks you through the steps involved in creating an old book from scratch.
These are dark times for sites that avail of text link ads, Review Me, and PayPerPost. Blogs that use these mechanisms is penalized by Google, and they receive a slap or two in their Google PageRank. In order to find alternatives to these mechanisms to avoid the penalties, we turn to private advertisers. Now …
I was recently working on an enterprise project in which I needed to detect the text inside a Word Document. Now, I could have got rid of all the non-standard characters from the .doc file and hoped I got something reasonable at the end. I could have tried to run Word 2007 via command line [...]
Ah, experts. We immediately look for one when we need to partake of a certain service. After all, we would want only the best for our projects, don’t we? The same goes for SEO. Who would want to let a not-so-known SEO practitioner tinker with our sites in the hopes of getting higher ranking? I [...]
PHP-GTK 2 is out, and with it, a fantastic means for PHP developers to build useful, reliable cross-platform desktop applications. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to get up and running with PHP-GTK in no time and build your first desktop application.
Yahoo provides excellent web services for geocoding which is precise and has a rich database of places around the world. Using this web service you can find latitude and longitude of any places. This web service comes with intelligence and is able to accept normal addresses. For example you can pass “White House, Washington”, “Beverly [...]
With the web 2.0 craze finally taking hold of our employers, it seems everyone wants us to add some nifty Javascript to the web applications we build. Of course, we aren’t Javascript developers, we’re PHP developers, and given we have one of the most complex languages to work with ourselves, we’re all too familiar with [...]
UPDATE: Part 2 now available. After you’ve been coding PHP for a while, you start to work out what the tools of the trade are, which applications can help you work more effectively, and essentially how to get things done. While developing, your environment is crucial: not having the right tools to do your job [...]
