qWikiOffice is an open source project for creating desktop-like web interfaces.
With the power of Ext JS Library (& PHP), it offers a very similar usage to desktops with:
The content management system you choose can really make a huge difference in how much time you (or your clients) spend keeping a site updated and maintained. There’s a huge variety out there—some estimates put the number at around 1700 different options. Some are great…some, not so much.
Below are ten useful guidelines to consider when choosing a CMS, followed by rundowns on ten great CMS options available and how they stack up based on the guidelines.
1. Use PHP Only When You Need it - Rasmus Lerdorf
2. Use Many Tables With PHP and MYSQL for Scalability - Matt Mullenweg
3. Never, ever trust your users - Dave Child4. Invest in PHP Caching - Ben Balbo
5. Speed up PHP Development with an IDE, Templates and Snippets - Chad Kieffer
6. Make Better Use of PHP’s Filter Functions - Joey Sochacki
7. Use a PHP Framework - Josh Sharp
8. Don’t use a PHP Framework - Rasmus Lerdorf
9. Use Batch Processing - Jack D. Herrington
10. Turn on Error Reporting Immediately - David Cummings
In the past few weeks NETTUTS has posted quite a few great tutorials on how to get started using PHP and MySQL to create simple web applications such as a shout box. Today we are going to take our knowledge of PHP and MySQL a step further by creating a simple blog. While there are countless excellent free blog platforms, the purpose of this tutorial is not to make a “better” blog but to use the process of making a blog to learn about advanced database structure techniques and how to use data more efficiently by utilizing objects in PHP. Get the tutorial here…
I’m pleased to present you with part one of a two part series on creating a photo site using PHP, jQuery, and AJAX. Originally, I intended to fit the entire tutorial into one screencast, but that quickly became a pipe dream as I realized that there was simply too much to cover. Nevertheless, even if you only watch this first video, you should learn a great deal.
We’ll be retrieving images from a database, creating a simple login form with authentication, and will then allow for our database to be asynchronously updated. Sounds good? If so, let’s get into it.
Get the tutorial here…
When it comes to web programming languages, PHP probably holds the record for copping criticism from the community at large. Comparisons with alternatives such as Ruby on Rails and Python/Django are common; defenders of PHP are quick to criticise the comparison of a language and a framework. But at the end of the day, developers work with Ruby on Rails, and with Python/Django, and with PHP. Just PHP. For most of the PHP applications out there, the language is just perfect, because PHP, to an extent, is the framework.
PHP is designed for the web. You could plug vanilla Ruby or Python into a web server and get up and running pretty quickly. But, at least at a basic level, you’d want a framework to deal with common issues of web development. In PHP, you just get started. PHP and Apache work out request data, output handling and more, right out of the box. (PHP also masters deployment.) David Heinemeier Hanson, the creator of the Ruby on Rails framework, calls this the immediacy of PHP.
Now, consider the “average” PHP frameworks. They help you handle request data, manage your output, control app flow - essentially, extending …
