PHP Excel Customizations: Working with Formulas and Functions in PHP | | | | Rating:     / 2 2010-09-07 | | | | | PHP Excel is one of the most important developer's tools when working with MS Excel applications in PHP. This tutorial will start to explore some of PHP Excel's basic features. The most important one enables you to work with formulas and functions. | | |
Google Gives Buckyball a Tribute Doodle in HTML5 in DHTML | | | | Rating:     / 1 2010-09-04 | | | | | Google dedicates a very cool tribute doodle to Buckminster Fuller's Buckyball. Developers, take note...it's all HTML 5. Discuss (1) | | |
MVC and the Zend Framework in PHP | | | | Rating:     / 1 2010-09-02 | | | | | In this four-part article series, you'll learn about the model-view-controller (MVC) design architecture, why its use is a best practice when building web applications, and how using the Zend framework for PHP lets you make the most of this architecture. This article is excerpted from chapter 25 of the book Beginning PHP and Oracle: From Novice to Professional, written by W. Jason Gilmore and Bob Bryla (Apress; ISBN: 1590597702). | | |
PHP: Rendering Web Pages Using the Composite View Design Pattern in PHP | | | | Rating:     / 1 2010-09-01 | | | | | Welcome to the conclusion of a five-part series on the Composite View design pattern. This article will focus on a way to make use of this design pattern when you're building dynamic web pages. It involves a simple two-step rendering process. Discuss (1) | | |
Joomla Layouts: Customizing Your Website in Administration | | | | Rating:     / 2 2010-08-31 | | | | | This is part two of a series on Joomla web development in Ubuntu. In the first part, you learned the basic but very important website development skills in Joomla. In this part, you'll learn how to work with templates and other aspects of creating a customized Joomla-based website. | | |
PHP: Creating Dynamic Web Pages with the Composite View Design Pattern in PHP | | | | Rating:     / 2 2010-08-30 | | | | | In this fourth part of a series, I demonstrate how to use all the composite view classes defined previously for generating a simple yet dynamic web page using a single rendering method. This example shows the real functionality of the Composite View pattern when it comes to rendering individual web page sections (partials) by using uncluttered, easy-to-follow client code. Discuss (3) | | |
Secure Encrypting and Decrypting for Your PHP Website in PHP | | | | Rating:     / 1 2010-08-26 | | | | | In this conclusion to a three-part series on secure PHP programming, you'll learn how to validate inputs, handle hashing, use the MCrypt package, and more. This article is excerpted from chapter 21 of the book Beginning PHP and Oracle: From Novice to Professional, written by W. Jason Gilmore and Bob Bryla (Apress; ISBN: 1590597702). | | |
Joomla Website Layout Customization in Administration | | | | Rating:     / 2 2010-08-25 | | | | | This is the first part of a beginner web development tutorial series for Joomla as the content management system used in a website. This tutorial is mainly written for Ubuntu-based developers with an XAMPP installation in a Linux environment. Keep reading to learn how to customize your Joomla website layout. | | |
PHP: Creating Single View Objects with the Composite View Design Pattern in PHP | | | | Rating:     / 1 2010-08-24 | | | | | In this third part of a series on the Composite View pattern, I develop a concrete class derived from the abstract parent built previously. This new class will be responsible for creating simple view objects. Discuss (1) | | |
PHP: View Object Collections and the Composite View Design in PHP | | | | Rating:     / 1 2010-08-23 | | | | | In this second part of a series, I demonstrate how to create a concrete composite view class, capable of rendering single and multiple view templates via the same “render()” method. The definition of this brand new class not only shows the logic that drives the Composite View pattern, but reveals how the pattern takes advantage of the benefits offered by Composition. Discuss (1) | | |
Securing Your PHP Website in PHP | | | | Rating:     / 1 2010-08-19 | | | | | In this second part of a three-part series on secure PHP programming, you'll learn how to hide the fact that you're using PHP to drive your site, how to hide sensitive data, and more. This article is excerpted from chapter 21 of the book Beginning PHP and Oracle: From Novice to Professional, written by W. Jason Gilmore and Bob Bryla (Apress; ISBN: 1590597702). Discuss (1) | | |
Determine Link Relevance and Unique Class C IP using Yahoo Links API in PHP | | | | Rating:     / 2 2010-08-18 | | | | | The Yahoo Site Explorer Inbound Links API comes in handy for a variety of purposes. You can get all sorts of data from it using PHP, from counting your backlinks to analyzing where they're coming from. This article will show you how to build a backlink checker tool that can do this and more. | | |
PHP Composite View Design Pattern: Introducing the Key Concepts in PHP | | | | Rating:     / 1 2010-08-17 | | | | | The Composite View design pattern offers users the versatility of handling single objects and collections through the same interface. But some programmers hesitate to use it due to its tricky implementation. Hesitate no longer; this multi-part series will take you step by step through some of the best ways to use the Composite View design pattern, complete with code samples to show you the way. Discuss (1) | | |