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Last week we discussed design patterns and polymorphism. This week we examine overloading and more. This article the last of four parts is excerpted from chapter two of the book em Advanced PHP Programming em written by George Schlossnagle Sams ISBN 672325616 ….

This week, Sreekumar Pillai begins a two-part series on OpenLaszlo, a zero-install platform for rich web applications. In this first part, Pillai introduces the OpenLaszlo Hello World app.

What makes Ajax possible is the communication layer with the server. The most complete option is the JavaScript XMLHttpRequest object. If XMLHttpRequest is not suitable, hidden IFrames and cookies can also be used. Both will be examined here. By Joshua Eichorn. 1009

Last week we continued our discussion of the object-oriented features of PHP 5 by taking a first look at design patterns. This week we will continue looking at design patterns and examine polymorphism. This article the third of four parts is excerpted from chapter two of the book em Advanced PHP Programming em written by George Schlossnagle Sams ISBN 672325616 ….

In this article the first of a three-part series you will be introduced to the basics of creating directors and builder objects with PHP 5. As usual there will be copious examples to help you quickly start using the builder pattern in your own PHP projects….

Fast-track your way to AJAX supremacy with some of the better-trained libraries. Coach Dan Webb puts World Cup contenders Dojo, Mochikit, Prototype, and YUI through their paces, as they battle for a position in your next AJAX line-up. Full player profiles, as well as game highlights, are included!

Take your interactive web apps to the next level with Adobe’s Flex 2 — it’s fast, phat, and free! Join Josh as he walks through the process of developing a simple Flash project that shows just how easy it is to build cross-platform web apps with Flex 2.

This is the continuation of a three part series. This week we look at transforming XML with XSLT, querying XML with XPath, evaluating XPath Expressions, serializing XML and more. By David Flanagan. 0925

If you re one of those PHP developers who want to explore the package of classes that come bundled with the Standard PHP Library SPL then fear not because you re at the right place. Welcome to the concluding part of the series A Close Look at the DirectoryIterator Class in PHP 5. In three parts this series introduces the most important methods attached to this class and shows you how to use them by mean of extensive hands-on examples….

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If you re looking for an overview of the new object-oriented features of PHP 5 you ve found a good place to start. This article the first of several parts is excerpted from chapter two of the book em Advanced PHP Programming em written by George Schlossnagle Sams ISBN 672325616 ….

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Five years after XML Schema’s release, it has matured into a key XML technology, despite its warts and arguably superior competitors. But how are people actually using it? Paul Kiel’s article this week answers that question.

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This week you’ll learn how to use JavaScript to work with XML data. Topics convered are obtaining XML documents, loading a document from the network, parsing XML text, XML documents from data islands and manipulating XML with the DOM API. By David Flanagan. 0918

Are you interested in having at your disposal a quick reference for working with the DirectoryIterator class that comes with PHP 5 Then this might be the article that you ve been waiting for Welcome to the second tutorial of the series A Close Look at the DirectoryIterator Class in PHP 5. Over the course of this set of installments you ll find complete coverage of the most important methods bundled with this class and learn how to take advantage of their excellent functionality….

The DirectoryIterator class is an important part of the Standard PHP Library SPL . Among other things it lets you traverse any specified directory with a regular foreach loop. In this first article of a three-part series some of the most relevant methods that come with the DirectoryIterator class are covered….

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The DirectoryIterator class is an important part of the Standard PHP Library SPL . Among other things it lets you traverse any specified directory with a regular foreach loop. In this first article of a three-part series some of the most relevant methods that come with the DirectoryIterator class are covered….

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Last week we began our discussion of PHP standalone scripts. This week we ll be talking about child processes shared resources signals and writing daemons. The second of three parts this article is excerpted from chapter five of the book em Advanced PHP Programming em written by George Schlossnagle Sams ISBN 672325616 ..

If you re one of those avid PHP developers who wants to learn how to apply the decorator design pattern within your Web applications then this group of articles might be quite appealing to you. Welcome to the second part of the series Using the Decorator pattern with PHP. Comprised of two parts this series walks you through the core concepts of using this pattern in PHP and shows you its practical edge with numerous hands-on examples….

This week you’re going to learn how to create a Color Picker similar to the one used in Photoshop, but entirely in JavaScript! By Mark Kahn. 0901

If you ve ever been interested in making significant use of PHP outside of a web environment this article will show you how. The first of three parts it is excerpted from chapter five of the book em Advanced PHP Programming em written by George Schlossnagle Sams ISBN 672325616 ….

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It’s common for a Web developer to build sites where tabular data is used. A common problem is where long fields might not fit correctly, making your browser resize the table cells, creating an annoying scrolling and/or cell height/width stretching. Here’s a solution to the problem. By Nicolas Erlijman. 0809

This week you’ll learn about solid software design practices, many of them borrowed from working with Windows applications. The result is the development of a Web based drawing package. By Guyon Roche. 0802

Greg Brown explains how to use basic object-oriented techniques to build more robust AJAX applications.

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