I got fed up with the lack of a decent DI-container for PHP, so today I created Bucket. To be clear, what I think is wrong with the currently available containers (at least that I’m aware of) is that they either are unstable, abandoned, requires a lot of up-front configuration in external XML-files, or are [...]

I got fed up with the lack of a decent DI-container for PHP, so today I created Bucket. To be clear, what I think is wrong with the currently available containers (at least that I’m aware of) is that they either are unstable, abandoned, requires a lot of up-front configuration in external XML-files, or are [...]

Just a quick tip, since I spent a good hour figuring this out recently. PHP has no native way of doing an interactive password prompt, when running as CLI. You can however use bash for the task. Of course this means that it won’t work on Windows, but you should be fine on most anything [...]

Just a quick tip, since I spent a good hour figuring this out recently. PHP has no native way of doing an interactive password prompt, when running as CLI. You can however use bash for the task. Of course this means that it won’t work on Windows, but you should be fine on most anything [...]

Zend are running a free webinar on 22 April with a live demonstration showing how to improve the performance of your PHP applications using Zend Server caching.

Zend are running a free webinar on 22 April with a live demonstration showing how to improve the performance of your PHP applications using Zend Server caching.

In his final installation tutorial, Craig provides a step-by-step guide to installing PHP5 as an Apache module in your Windows development environment.

In his final installation tutorial, Craig provides a step-by-step guide to installing PHP5 as an Apache module in your Windows development environment.

Bored in meetings? Worry no longer. Raena demonstrates how to ease the pain of meetings by creating your own buzzword bingo game using a scrap of beginner PHP.

Bored in meetings? Worry no longer. Raena demonstrates how to ease the pain of meetings by creating your own buzzword bingo game using a scrap of beginner PHP.

Some thoughts about the naming of $_GET and $_POST and general HTTP confusion.

Some thoughts about the naming of $_GET and $_POST and general HTTP confusion.

Long dismissed as a “toy Java IDE”, NetBeans—Sun’s open source Integrated Development Evironment (IDE)—has really grown up in recent years. No longer is it just for Java, either: for web developers, NetBeans 6.5 now supports Ruby and PHP out of the box. Surprisingly, that support is so good that it now compares favourably to more [...]

Long dismissed as a “toy Java IDE”, NetBeans—Sun’s open source Integrated Development Evironment (IDE)—has really grown up in recent years. No longer is it just for Java, either: for web developers, NetBeans 6.5 now supports Ruby and PHP out of the box. Surprisingly, that support is so good that it now compares favourably to more [...]

php-tracer-weaver is a tool for automatically generating docblock comments, with parameter types.