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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….

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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If you re one of those PHP developers that want to extend your background in object-based applications then this series might be quite attractive to you. In these three tutorials of which this is the second you ll learn how to simulate a simple Model-View-Controller schema which can be easily expanded to construct more complex relationships between the different entities in this case applicable specifically to PHP classes….

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What if your site could change the appearance of images on-the-fly, in response to user interaction? Well, it can. As Michael explains, by integrating ImageMagick with your site, you can allow users to resize maps, rotate aerial shots, zoom in on product shots, and more.

BitMasks - Emulate Unix Permissions in PHP

Would you like to learn how to simulate an MVC-based system with PHP If so you ve come to the right place. This is the first article in a three-part series that will show you how to build this schema in PHP by constructing a few classes that represent what is needed….

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Although the article s title may seem a bit intimidating the truth is that things are much simpler than you think. Like many other programming languages PHP also allows you to construct and use visitor objects with minor hassles. But before I go deeper into the subject first let s ask ourselves the following question what are visitor objects after all …

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Are you looking for an easygoing article that teaches you how to implement the Observer design pattern inside your PHP 5 applications Your search is finished Welcome to the last part of the series The Observer Pattern in PHP. Made up of three articles this series will show you how to create and work with observer objects without making you scratch your head while looking at complex code samples….

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Welcome to the last installment of the series Overloading classes in PHP. Comprised of three tutorials this series shows you how to overload your classes whether you re using PHP 4 or PHP 5 and explains in detail the implementation of the __set __get and __call methods in order to overload property accesses and method calls respectively….

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An important difference between a managed language like PHP, and an unmanaged language like C is control over memory pointers. Here you’ll learn that traditional memory management functions are almost never used directly by the PHP source code. By Pearson Education. 0619

This is part two of the series Overloading classes in PHP. In three tutorials this series teaches how to overload your classes in PHP 4 by using the overload PHP built-in function in conjunction with the implementation of the __set __get and __call methods and explores the native support of object overloading in PHP 5….

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If you have reached the point in your programming life where you are using design patterns you will want to read this article. The first of a three-part series it covers the Observer pattern which can be just the thing for situations where objects need to send information to a centralized mechanism….

Want to gain a good grounding in how to apply the Observer pattern in PHP Then you re in the right place Welcome to the second part of the series The Observer Pattern in PHP. Composed of three tutorials this series teaches you the key concepts of the popular Observer design pattern and shows you how to apply it in the context of real-world PHP applications….

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Using XML, Part 5: SOAP and WSDL

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“Cake is a rapid development framework for PHP which uses commonly known design patterns like ActiveRecord, Association Data Mapping, Front Controller and MVC. Our primary goal is to provide a structured framework that enables PHP users at all levels to rapidly develop robust web applications, without any […]

CakePHP is a mature framework for PHP developers who want the structure and time-saving benefits of Ruby on Rails, without having to leave their comfort zone. As Fabio explains, CakePHP’s scaffolding lets us build a prototype application quickly, using minimal code. Cake also offers many helper classes to extend and customize your application while retaining a sensible and easily maintainable architecture.