Lineke Kerckhoffs-Willems has posted a good tutorial over on the IBuildings blog titled “Multithreading in PHP with CURL”. It’s a short read with some proof-of-concept code but worth taking a look at if you’ve ever wondered how to simulate multi-threaded processing with PHP.
When it comes to playing nice with data in different formats, PHP’s pedigree is hard to beat. Not only does the language make it a breeze to deal with SQL resultsets and XML files, but it comes with extensions to deal with formats as diverse as Ogg/Vorbis audio files, ZIP archives and EXIF headers. So it should come as no surprise that PHP can also read and write Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, albeit with a little help from PEAR. In this article, I’ll introduce you to two packages that make it surprisingly easy to hook your PHP scripts up to a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet and extract the data contained therein. I’ll also show you how to dynamically create a new spreadsheet from scratch, complete with formulae and formatting, and import data from a spreadsheet into a database. So come on it, and let’s get started!
Matthew Weier O’Phinney (Master of the ZF-MVC) has posted a great tutorial on using the Zend_Auth and Zend_Form together to build a login form with identity persistence.
As part of an ongoing effort to give PHP developers new tools and new markets to explore, Zend and SAP are reviewing upgrading the Netweaver PHP connector.
One of the great perks of my job is that I get to attend a lot of conferences. Most of the time they are PHP conference and I get to hang with the coolest development community on earth. Sometimes, I get to go to a conferences that is a little out of my comfort zone, OSBC was just such a conference.
I’m gonna try to keep this as a regular feature, here’s 5 of the hottest Photoshop tutorials from the last week (I hope!)
