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<description>Zend Tutorials at Dev Shed.  DevShed is a community focused on both beginner and advanced tutorials in Java, C, PHP, Python, MySQL and Ruby-on-rails...amongst others.</description>
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<item><title>Taking the Zend Certified PHP Engineer Exam: My Story</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2004 10:59:51 -0500</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thinking about taking the Zend Certified PHP Engineer Exam? Before you do, see what David Fells experienced when he recently took the test and see what you should be ready for and what not to waste your time (or money) on.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[Several months ago, Zend launched its Zend PHP Certification exam much to the interest of the PHP community. The objective of this exam is to certify individuals with broad, advanced knowledge of PHP and set them apart in the marketplace. As with any vendor-specific certification, one could expect the certificate to hold significant value when applying for a position that requires use of the technology in question. The exam is priced at $200, the same price as each of the MySQL exams, but still a bit more than the typical Microsoft or CompTIA exams, which cost $125 on average. The exam curricu...]]></content:encoded>
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<item><title>Quick Introduction to PHP 5</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2004 10:57:36 -0500</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The groundbreaking release of PHP 3 in 1997 revolutionized the way in which Web sites are developed, and made it possible for everyone to create simple, yet powerful Web applications. PHP 4 took PHP much further by introducing the ZendŽ Engine, pushing the performance of PHP through the roof, and allowing it to be more extensible than ever before.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[PHP Version 5 marks a historical milestone for PHP, featuring a variety of important new features and major improvements. The Zend Engine II, the heart of PHP 5, features a brand new and extremely powerful Object Oriented programming model, that allows for the development of large scale, object-based applications, using common development methodologies and design patterns. The Zend Engine II also provides the infrastructure for revolutionary new extension modules that will make PHP even easier and more powerful than what you've learned to expect.  PHP 5 introduces new and revolutionary ways of...]]></content:encoded>
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<item><title>PHP SOAP Extension</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2004 16:22:02 -0500</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This article describes the new SOAP extension for PHP. It is intended for PHP 
developers who want to write their own Web Services servers, or use SOAP to 
access existing ones. It assumes some familiarity with Web Services, SOAP, and 
WSDL (Web Services Description Language).]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) is a lightweight XML-based protocol for exchanging structured information between distributed applications over native web protocols, such as HTTP. SOAP specifies the formats that XML messages should use, the way in which they should be processed, a set of encoding rules for standard and application-defined data types, and a convention for representing remote procedure calls and responses.Web Services is a modern and very popular technology. The list of protocols and technologies related to Web Services grows every day, but SOAP is probably the most importa...]]></content:encoded>
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<item><title>Improving Performance</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2004 12:04:29 -0500</pubDate>
<link>http://www.devshed.com/c/a/Zend/Improving-Performance/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Your web presence is growing! Traffic and usage are escalating and you have to maintain a superior level of performance. The state of growth unfolds many opportunities but it also holds challenges as a result of change. Not only does performance affect your operating costs, it also reflects directly on the end-user experience. The marketing and sales departments are probably saying that happier users directly increase sales.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[  Unsatisfactory user experience can be traced back to any of several reasons:    Reduced response time due to increased request/seconds on the HTTP server    Reduced response time due to increased hits to the database    Slow download speed due to users dialing-up with slow connections    Undesired visitors are hacking your site    Errors as a result of adding software to the site    And others Successful growth doesn't happen immediately, it is a constant cycle of evaluation and change- identifying points of fault, reporting, decision making and implementing a solution.  Implementing homegro...]]></content:encoded>
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<item><title>PDFs with PHP part 2</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2004 12:04:29 -0500</pubDate>
<link>http://www.devshed.com/c/a/Zend/PDFs-with-PHP-part-2/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[This tutorial is intended for the PHP programmer who needs to incorporate PDF 
generation in a script without using external libraries such as PDFlib (often 
unavailable due to licensing restrictions or lack of funds). This tutorial is 
the second of two parts, and builds on what was covered in the first part. 
Therefore, if you have not yet gone through Part 1, you are advised to do so (or 
at least read through it), before going through this tutorial (Part 2). Apart 
from what was dealt with in Part 1, no knowledge of PDF file structure is 
required to understand this tutorial, as all references are explained.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[We saw in Part 1 how PDF files are, after all, just plain text files, with specific markup syntax that describes what should happen to objects within the document, such as text and images. We shall now further examine this syntax, to allow us to create a more complete PDF document (i.e more than simple text).  Learning ObjectivesWith the combined knowledge from Part 1, and from the current tutorial (Part 2), you should be able to put together a simple PDF class that can:    Add colors to your PDF documents;    Add lines, rectangles and circles;    Insert JPEG images.  PrerequisitesYou need to ...]]></content:encoded>
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<item><title>PDFs with PHP part 1</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2004 12:04:29 -0500</pubDate>
<link>http://www.devshed.com/c/a/Zend/PDFs-with-PHP-part-1/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[This tutorial is intended for the PHP programmer who needs to incorporate PDF 
generation in a script without using external libraries such as PDFlib (often 
unavailable due to licensing restrictions or lack of funds). This tutorial will 
cover only the basics, which hopefully will give you a good start. PDF has a 
vast set of features and possibilities which can not be covered in a short 
tutorial. If you need more than what is covered here, you might want to look at 
some similar yet more complete solutions available, such as the excellent work 
done by Olivier Plathey on the FPDF class (http://fpdf.org), on which this tutorial is based. 
Of course, you may wish to take your own route and for that there is also the 
PDF reference (be warned: its 1,172 pages!) Basic familiarity with using PHP 
classes is assumed. Knowledge of PDF file structure is not required, as all 
references are explained.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[OverviewPDF files are, after all, just plain text files with specific markup syntax that describes what should happen to objects within the document, such as text and images. It follows that, armed with some PDF logic; anyone can create a PDF file. In this tutorial you will be shown the basic features of the PDF language, to enable you to put together your own PDF document. Learning ObjectivesAt the end of this first part of the tutorial you should be able to put together a simple PDF class that can:  Create and output a PDF document Set up page size and orientation Insert simple text into the...]]></content:encoded>
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<item><title>PHP at Lycos</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2004 12:04:29 -0500</pubDate>
<link>http://www.devshed.com/c/a/Zend/PHP-at-Lycos/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[PANGORA is a product search, which is integrated into the shopping channels of 25 leading online portals in Europe. PANGORA bundles the goods from 900 online shops into a total of 7.5 million products and uses sophisticated algorithms to present highly relevant results to online shoppers. Among the partners, considerable portals such as Yahoo!, AOL, T-Online, LYCOS and Tiscali are included. The PANGORA search is a modular-developed, flexible service that is adapted to the individual requirements of partners. PANGORA is a service of IBO GmbH, a wholly-owned subsidiary of LYCOS Europe.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[  PANGORA (Lycos Europe) web software is built primarily using PHP server-side scripting language. To stay competitive, content heavy shopping portals demand top-notch response time to ensure optimal user experience at all times. Companies utilizing PANGORA's Shopping services generally require PANGORA to commit to page delivery of less than 2 seconds. Therefore PANGORA constantly aspires to finding new ways to decrease response time. Installing Zend Performance Suite to improve response time, decrease download time and increase server throughput made it possible for PANGORA to stand by their ...]]></content:encoded>
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<item><title>Build Database Interfaces</title>
<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2004 12:04:29 -0500</pubDate>
<link>http://www.devshed.com/c/a/Zend/Build-Database-Interfaces/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[This article is about using and building Database Interfaces (DB interfaces). DB interfaces make application development faster and easier. This is accomplished by relocating scattered DML (Insert, Update, Delete) statements into a single shared tool, the Class. A Class encapsulates data post processing, integrity, and security into a single tool that can be accessed throughout the application.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[Over the past couple of years many tools have been developed to address the limitations of PHP when building large database applications. These tools can be divided into two categories:  Database Abstraction HTML Generation  DB Interfaces are a new category of tools that sits between the application logic and the database logic. The Big PicturePHP was designed to be a  quick and simple  tool for making web pages dynamic. However, it does not scale well to building full-blown applications without a lot of planning and design. While PHP can make building a solitary web page  quick and simple , a...]]></content:encoded>
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