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Sometime in the end of March Microsoft and partners announced 2009 WinPHP competition. I always wanted to try to create an app with both PHP and C#, so I decided to register – my idea is to create a project, which will demonstrate both PHP and .NET connectivity and Deep Zoom functionality.
My project will allow [...]

One may debug his application with print(”) statements all other the place or alert(”) for JavaScript. Luckily some years ago Firebug extension for Firefox was introduced, which introduced (?) console. Console works absolutely the same as in Linux and can be used not only to execute commands, but receive information from various sources.
To start with, [...]

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 [...]

Currently I’m working on a new project which works on Zend Framework. I really like this framework and it has been my favourite for quite a long time – I especially like it’s standalone components and huge space for your personal programming style. But… I don’t know how to correctly implement modularity in Zend Framework.
I [...]

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 [...]