Cutting Edge Tutorials

Today’s special guest is Matthew Turland (Elazar to those of you who hang out on the phpc channel on freenode.net) Matt has been building PHP applications since 2002. He joined the ranks of PHP-Oracle developers in 2006 when he became a programmer for METHODS Technology Solutions. He is a regular on the PHP Community channel of the Freenode IRC network. He regularly shares his experience on his blog, a link to which can be found in the show notes.

Welcome to The ZendCon Sessions. I hope you enjoy today’s session as we listen to Eli White present “High Performance PHP & MySQL Scaling Techniques”.

Thursday, February 7th at 7:00 PM, Terry Chay will be giving talk about object-orientated code in PHP at the San Francisco PHP meetup.

Zend Technologies, the PHP Company, today announced the general availability of version 3.6 of Zend Platform^TM, the industry leading PHP web application server. Zend Platform 3.6 significantly expands the breadth and depth of its manageability, performance and clustering support for PHP, enabling organizations to better guarantee that their business critical web applications will meet end user’s quality, availability and response time expectations.

Over at kapustabrothers.com, Shaun Farrell has started an article series on Indexing PDF Documents with Zend_Search_Lucene.

Everyone’s trying to mimic this popular Photography trend of grungy photos of old or homeless people. Find out the secret Photoshop technique that makes wrinkles look dramatic and sculptured.

Everyone’s trying to mimic this popular Photography trend of grungy photos of old or homeless people. Find out the secret Photoshop technique that makes wrinkles look dramatic and sculptured.

Everyone’s trying to mimic this popular Photography trend of grungy photos of old or homeless people. Find out the secret Photoshop technique that makes wrinkles look dramatic and sculptured.

In this second (and concluding) segment, I’ll be giving you a brief glimpse of other aspects of HTML_QuickForm that I think you would find educational, entertaining or both. I’ll be discussing some of the package’s non-standard form elements, teaching you how to combine elements into groups, showing you how to apply templates to control a form’s appearance, and guiding you through the process of writing and registering your own custom validation rules. That’s a lot of ground to cover, so you should stop dawdling over this introduction and flip the page to get started.

My good friend and fellow Zender Nili Gafni pinged me yesterday to remind me that we’ve got another free Webinar coming up. This one is “Everything you need to know about the PHP 5 Certification Exam”. I’m assuming that means ”…except for the answers.”