Archive For The “PHP” Category
John conducted benchmarks the other day and found that IIS/WinXP can be faster than Apache /Linux. His initial results show a huge difference, but later he found the difference was only 10%. What difference would running a PHP accelerator make to the test? That may very well swing the results back in favour. In my [...]
Moving a purely procedural program to an OO design is a mammoth task, especially when that program is several years old and had bits added on over the while. I’ve pruned out a lot of the extra features that are not needed now, and some that are simply silly, but now I’m coming to a [...]
Here’s an interesting article, Template Engines from the author of bTemplate. In short, the point of template engines should be to separate your business logic from your presentation logic, not separate your PHP code from your HTML code. That’s the short definition of what a template should do. I think it should also: Provide application [...]
phpPatterns() has been updated with a wealth of articles! Stuff on Mozilla XUL, PHP5, PDF, APIs, PEAR::SOAP. Excellent reading. The article on PHP5 is a bit of a rant aimed at PHP developers. PHP5 will make it more important than ever to be familiar with OOP and advanced programming techniques, as well as plain old [...]
Here’s a good comment off a Zend Smarty tutorial on why you should use Smarty. With smarty all I had to do was write the engine in PHP and then all the deigners had to do was come up with the new templates. Then for each customer, there was 1 universal engine, one that I [...]
A short article introducing the workflow of a typical Smarty/PEAR::DB application. You’ll need to know a bit about both to get the most from the examples though, but the author has some good ideas.
The new Smarty Forums are now online! I have to admit I prefer email discussion lists but these things can be useful as well. Maybe I’m just getting old too.
