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• Develop PHP apps with Picasa Web Albums 3 weeks, 4 days ago
  
  In this article, learn how to integrate data from the Picasa Web Albums service into a PHP application using both SimpleXML and the Zend client library. Also, meet the Picasa Web Albums Data API and see how you can use it to retrieve photos and photo metadata; add, modify and delete photos; and perform keyword searches of Picasa's user-generated content.
• Lessons From PHP 4.4 End-of-Life Announcement 1 month, 4 weeks ago
  
  The developers of PHP announced last week that PHP version 4.4.9 is now available. This would not be remarkable in and of itself, except that the developers also indicated that this would be the last release of PHP 4.4.
• PHP 4 is dead, long live PHP 4 2 months ago
  
  The 8th of August marked the end of life for PHP 4, which has been in stable release since May, 2000. With no further security patches to come for the technology, what options are there for those who can't or won't upgrade?
• Getting graphic with PHP 3 months ago
  
  Imagine creating Web-page graphics dynamically using just code. Creating and manipulating images is yours for the doing with the power of PHP. This tutorial steps through using the GD library, showing you how to create and alter images on Web pages. It starts with the GD construct, and then builds on it to showcase graphics techniques.
• Zend, symfony, and CakePHP cron task automation 7 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  A short few years ago, a common criticism about PHP was that it did not support MVC-style architectures. Today, developers can chose from many PHP frameworks. This article shows you how to integrate external tasks with PHP frameworks and create a simple task that can be called using a scheduler such as cron. You'll build the application in each framework, getting a sense for how Zend, symfony, and CakePHP handle automated tasks differently.
• How To Create and Apply Image Filters in PHP 7 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  Discover how image filters work, how they can spice up your images, how to take advantage of them in PHP, and how to create custom filters that go far beyond the built-in filter effects.
• You Used PHP to Write WHAT?! 7 months, 3 weeks ago
  
  PHP may be the most popular Web scripting language in the world. But despite a large collection of nails, not every tool is a hammer. So when should it be used, and when would another dynamic programming language be a better choice? We identify its strengths and weaknesses.
• Learn Object-Oriented Programming with PHP5 with new book from Packt 8 months, 1 week ago
  
  Packt is pleased to announce the release of a new book titled Object-Oriented Programming with PHP5. Written by Hasin Hayder, this book will teach users to understand the core object-oriented programming concepts with PHP and to write manageable applications with ease.
• PHP 4 is Dead—Long Live PHP 5 8 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  PHP 4, deployed on tens of millions of servers globally, is among the most successful languages of all time. But its run is coming to an end...or is it?
• Free RTS: Open Source Gamer's Guide to Free Real Time Strategy Games 8 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  Real Time Strategy (RTS) gaming as a genre was made popular by the original Command & Conquer, Dune 2, and of course Blizzard's mega popular WarCraft & StarCraft series. Typical mouse centric game play is based on trying to balance available resources, unit management, construction, and combat. RTS games usually are at their best when played across the internet or home network against a friend, some even offer a compelling single player experience.
• Mastering how to process text in PHP 8 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  In many apps, parsing parameters is a necessary evil. And nothing is better for it than PHP's regex engine. This article delves more deeply into regexes and look at a handful of advanced operators and recipes to master regular expressions in PHP.
• PHP can slice and dice input quickly 9 months, 1 week ago
  
  Pattern matching is such a common chore for software that a special shorthand — regular expressions — has evolved to make light work of the task. PHP applications manage increasingly large amounts of data. Whether you need to validate form input or decompose content, this article will show you how PHP regular expressions can do the trick easily.
• Clever Zend IDE helps you fix PHP bugs interactively 11 months ago
  
  Martin Streicher, the Editor in Chief of Linux Magazine writes about Squashing bugs in PHP applications with the Zend Debugger, which probes running code, allowing you to suspend execution arbitrarily, examine objects, explore the call stack, and even change the value of a variable on the fly. Also, take a look at this quick webcast on developing Rich Internet Applications powered by Zend Core to learn more about Zend Core's best features.
• Refine and Debug PHP Applications with Syslog 11 months, 3 weeks ago
  
  One of the fun aspects of programming is learning about new ways to use an old tool. An old technique for exploring a running program is to place code that "displays" the current value of variables at strategic points. Find out how PHP’s syslog() can examine these values easily without interfering with the standard output of the program.
• Improve your PHP Coding Productivity with new CodeIgniter Book 1 year, 1 month ago
  
  Packt is pleased to announce the release of its new book, CodeIgniter for Rapid PHP Application Development. Written by David Upton, this book will help users build a dynamic website quickly and easily using CodeIgniter's prepared code.
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