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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?“, [...]

As websites grows, searches like “LIKE title ‘%search term%’” becomes unreliable. There are very good solutions like Sphinx, Lucene, etc, but not surprisingly, you can’t always have Sphinx installed (shared servers again) and other solutions should be chosen.
MySQL supports full-text indexing, but it doesn’t give a lot of control over actual index. Luckily, Zend [...]

I believe that everyone who develops in PHP knows Zend (I know them from certification which I’ve done some time ago), especially now, when Zend Framework is more and more popular. Zend also makes (and probably specializes) software for web servers – Zend Guard, Zend Optimizer, etc. Recently Zend introduced new product – Zend Server. [...]

Zend Optimizer is nice product, but I can’t make it work with PHP’s Reflection. Reflection is very good functionality which allows script to read and extract information from it-self’s source code. For example, Zend_XmlRpc_Server component checks functions signatures (which are phpdoc comments) to determine if given parameter(s) is valid type, etc.
I have been using Zend [...]