http://www.devshed.com Zend - RSS Feeds en-us Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:32:13 -0500 Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:32:13 -0500 Mon, 01 Nov 2004 09:59:51 -0500 http://www.devshed.com/c/a/Zend/Taking-the-Zend-Certified-PHP-Engineer-Exam-My-Story/?kc=rss - 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 t...]]> http://www.devshed.com/c/a/Zend/Taking-the-Zend-Certified-PHP-Engineer-Exam-My-Story/?kc=rss Thu, 01 Apr 2004 09:57:36 -0500 http://www.devshed.com/c/a/Zend/Quick-Introduction-to-PHP-5/?kc=rss - 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-base...]]> http://www.devshed.com/c/a/Zend/Quick-Introduction-to-PHP-5/?kc=rss Wed, 17 Mar 2004 15:22:02 -0500 http://www.devshed.com/c/a/Zend/PHP-SOAP-Extension/?kc=rss - 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 encodi...]]> http://www.devshed.com/c/a/Zend/PHP-SOAP-Extension/?kc=rss Thu, 08 Jan 2004 11:04:29 -0500 http://www.devshed.com/c/a/Zend/Improving-Performance/?kc=rss - 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 ...]]> http://www.devshed.com/c/a/Zend/Improving-Performance/?kc=rss Wed, 07 Jan 2004 11:04:29 -0500 http://www.devshed.com/c/a/Zend/PDFs-with-PHP-part-2/?kc=rss - 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 sim...]]> http://www.devshed.com/c/a/Zend/PDFs-with-PHP-part-2/?kc=rss Tue, 06 Jan 2004 11:04:29 -0500 http://www.devshed.com/c/a/Zend/PDFs-with-PHP-part-1/?kc=rss - 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 featur...]]> http://www.devshed.com/c/a/Zend/PDFs-with-PHP-part-1/?kc=rss Mon, 05 Jan 2004 11:04:29 -0500 http://www.devshed.com/c/a/Zend/PHP-at-Lycos/?kc=rss - 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 PA...]]> http://www.devshed.com/c/a/Zend/PHP-at-Lycos/?kc=rss Sun, 04 Jan 2004 11:04:29 -0500 http://www.devshed.com/c/a/Zend/Build-Database-Interfaces/?kc=rss - 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 appli...]]> http://www.devshed.com/c/a/Zend/Build-Database-Interfaces/?kc=rss