Facebook's soon-to-be-released PHP "code transformer," dubbed HipHop, promises performance gains of up to 50% by transforming PHP source code into compiled C++. Mal gives us the lowdown on this exciting development in the PHP world. Related posts:Free PHP Webinar: How to Increase Performance with CachingOOP and PerformanceFree Performance with...

Facebook's soon-to-be-released PHP "code transformer," dubbed HipHop, promises performance gains of up to 50% by transforming PHP source code into compiled C++. Mal gives us the lowdown on this exciting development in the PHP world. Related posts:Free PHP Webinar: How to Increase Performance with CachingOOP and PerformanceFree Performance with...

Just launched pearhub.org. Related posts:Introducing php-tracer-weaverIntroducing Bucket: A Minimal Dependency Injection Container for PHPThe garbage you can’t dispose of…

Just launched pearhub.org. Related posts:Introducing php-tracer-weaverIntroducing Bucket: A Minimal Dependency Injection Container for PHPThe garbage you can’t dispose of…

if you're anything like Raena, you have bits and pieces of your online life scattered absolutely everywhere — photos, comments, tweets, blogs, favorite links — stashed away in all kinds of profiles. Wouldn’t it be nice to aggregate all those on one page? Find out how in this introduction to the SimplePie feed parser.

if you're anything like Raena, you have bits and pieces of your online life scattered absolutely everywhere — photos, comments, tweets, blogs, favorite links — stashed away in all kinds of profiles. Wouldn’t it be nice to aggregate all those on one page? Find out how in this introduction to the SimplePie feed parser.

Last week, SitePoint launched its second Twitaway, giving away a free PDF of The Principles of Successful Freelancing to anyone kind enough to follow us on Twitter. Unfortunately, with the traffic this attracted, our MySQL server ground to a halt in the first few hours of the giveaway. Kevin explains why, and how we fixed it.

Last week, SitePoint launched its second Twitaway, giving away a free PDF of The Principles of Successful Freelancing to anyone kind enough to follow us on Twitter. Unfortunately, with the traffic this attracted, our MySQL server ground to a halt in the first few hours of the giveaway. Kevin explains why, and how we fixed it.

Namespaces have caused a divide amongst developers who either love or hate their implementation in PHP 5.3. Craig looks at the issues and assures us there is little need to worry.

Namespaces have caused a divide amongst developers who either love or hate their implementation in PHP 5.3. Craig looks at the issues and assures us there is little need to worry.

In the final part of his series explaining PHP namespaces, Craig covers more advanced topics such as the keywords and class autoloading.

In the final part of his series explaining PHP namespaces, Craig covers more advanced topics such as the keywords and class autoloading.

In the second part of Craig's PHP namespaces series, he looks at importing, aliasing, and identifier resolution.

In the second part of Craig's PHP namespaces series, he looks at importing, aliasing, and identifier resolution.

In the first part of a series of articles, Craig explains why namespaces were required in PHP and how they can be used in your code.