How to use external libraries in PHP?

May 23rd, 2009

External libraries are useful for performance demanding tasks where PHP is simply too slow. Also PHP can work as front-end system for various back-end systems (where server doesn’t provide any PHP supported communication types). I have written some posts about using .Net libraries in PHP so far, but there are some other choices available too. [...]

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Passing data from PHP to Silverlight

May 15th, 2009

Only on rare cases applications created with Silverlight (or Flash) are static – it’s very common to have information coming from a RSS feed, REST service or any other data source. What is more important, these applications usually needs configuration variables (user name, language, products category, etc.) to be passed to them. But how to [...]

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SQL Native Client as MSSQL driver for Zend Framework

May 7th, 2009

Stuart Herbert in his blog more than a year ago pointed some key Microsoft Sql extension for PHP pros:
What’s Wrong With The Existing MSSQL Extension For PHP?
… or, why do we need an improved SQL Server extension for PHP? :)
The existing MSSQL extension works well, but has a few practical limitations that have to be [...]

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Zend Framework and Microsoft IIS

May 5th, 2009

My task today was to make Rob Allen’s Zend framework tutorial project run on Windows. Some years ago such task could have been a problem, but as you will see, now it’s nothing special.
To start with, Windows sometimes really annoys. For example, by default I can’t add files to C:\inetpub\wwwroot. It doesn’t ask for “Allow/Cancel?“, [...]

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