What is the Holy Grail? Depends on who you ask. Some may think that it’s the object orientated “Ruby on Rails” but others still use functional coding. There’s room for everyone.
This combination of Smarty, PHP and Ajax is interesting. There are a few links in the comments to other PHP toolkits including PHP on Trax which is based on the same idea as the previously mentioned Rails project.
Must study and try out later.
John Lim lists some of the requirements for an “enterprise” financial application. I’ve never gone to the lengths John has to pass such an audit but I can imagine it wasn’t easy!
In my quest to find way of securing 3rd party PHP code I discovered the PHP Security Scanner. This could be a first stage check in the process of checking WordPress templates.
Afterwards we’d have to flag unwanted commands. Well, we don’t want people opening /etc/passwd now do we?
Good presentation by Chris Shiflett of “Brain Bulb”. The flash format makes it very accessible and allows for simple animation.
My experiences with page controllers and other design patterns has been mostly good, although sometimes it’s overkill! Nevertheless, this tutorial is worth a read if you’re interested, or haven’t a clue what I’m talking about!
Ootips – Object Orientation Tips.. my primary development language these days is PHP, so my OO skills aren’t called upon as much as they used to. Still should be useful stuff here for everyone!
Lurvely! This is a very neat method for removing Javascript from html pages! Embed it in the CSS! (sort of!)
He has a couple of examples on his page, and it looks easy enough in principle. The devil’s in the details don’t you know but it looks like it’s worth trying!
He’s a busy beaver too.. he has an MVC framework and tutorial that steps you through an example.
Jon noticed that PHP is 10 years old today! I’ve been working with PHP for the last 6 or so years.. has it been that long?
Holy Shmoly! is Stephen Fry proof thanks to caching by WP Super Cache
