PHP

A common way of accessing structures or objects uniformly is to use attributes access (also known as properties or metadata). Attributes allows code to read and write single values from an object in one general way.

In this article I will show you how you can use the database library from eZ publish to build database independent fulltext search engine. I will show you a relatively simple algorithm to get search result ranking and stop words. You will get the full source code for a complete working program to get you started.

One of the most underused features of PHP is the ability to use references. The problem is that using references are rather troublesome in PHP. References was not part of the original syntax but has been added later on, thus leading to a somewhat confusing syntax. There's also little support for references in the native function set.

Parsing XML is a very common task when programming for the web. This article will show you how to use the eZ xml parser to handle XML documents.

When developing web applications in PHP (or any other languages for that matter) there are several security aspects we should consider. In this article I'll try to explain some of the most common security flaws, and show simple ways to secure your site.

Have you ever had the job of upgrading a site and wanted to check that everything is fine before you set the server live? This short article will show you an example of how you can check the site live while the rest of the world will get a page which tells them that the site is being maintained.

A widget is a GUI element which is reusable. Development packages and libraries for C and C++ often have these ready for use. In HTML the form elements would substitute widgets. Now you might wonder why you would need to create further complexity by creating something in PHP for accessing these elements, keep reading and I'll provide you with my problem and my solution.

As we've seen in lot of articles and publications, the web of services, is one of the emerging evolutions of the actual document-based web. To make the web a valid media for providing services it would be needed to increase the inter-operability between existing web applications and design new ones with this in mind.

Luis returns with an article covering the real computer science stuff, how to use shared memory and semaphores.

This article (En Español) will show you an easy way to write a simple XML-RPC server and client using the eZ xmlrpc software package available from developer.ez.no.

If you are a web developer using PHP from small web applications to large corporate portals with millions of page views, you may suddenly find that you need your site or application translated to another language. When your company opens www.company.com.br you need your application in Portuguese, then you'll need it in Japanese and so on. You don't have a "translation" problem, you have an internationalization problem.

In this article I will explain a method of documenting your PHP classes. This article is based on the eZ phpdoc generator.

PHP4 ext/java provides a simple and effective means for creating and invoking methods on Java objects from PHP. This article will give you a quick tutorial on how to use the PHP Java extension.

If you have implemented a PHP application using an object oriented approach and are disappointed with the performance you get, then this article is worth looking at. Here I will explain how you can use templates to cache your web pages and serve pure static pages. Using this technique you can have complex algorithms for rendering articles, or whatever you like, and still get the performance of static pages.

Separating content from presentation is much talked about, and the way to solve that has been using one of the many template classes out there.