Articles Categorized as 'PHP'

Installing and running the Zend Framework on XAMPP

Chandesh Parekh
by Chandesh Parekh
in PHP, Web Development and Programming
October 27, 2009

I’ve recently started looking at the ZEND framework for PHP and wanted to know how to install and run it on my Windows XAMMP development environment.
Norman Kosmal has a nice post on how to do this here and the Zend folk have a nice quick-start guide here
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Use hooks to customize your WordPress site

Chandesh Parekh
by Chandesh Parekh
in PHP, Web Development and Programming
August 21, 2009

WordPress is a powerful publishing platform (this site uses it) and it seems to be going from strength to strength. This is partly due to the fact that WordPress is easy to hack i.e. it’s easy to re-write code to make the platform do what you want it to.
Hacking core files, however, is problematic as [...]

Cheat Sheets for PHP, Ruby on Rails, MySQL, CSS and SEO

Chandesh Parekh

I went on a bit of a Cheat Sheet binge this month. Working on a couple of projects using various technologies means I keep bouncing around looking for stuff so I thought I’d better get some cheat sheets up on my wall to save me time.
Most of these are from one site, the brilliantly named [...]

Ruby and PHP are the Leading Web Development Languages according to Sun’s Tim Bray

Chandesh Parekh
by Chandesh Parekh
in PHP, Ruby on Rails, Web Development and Programming
July 8, 2008

Tim Bray, director of Web Technologies at Sun Microsystems, said in April’s Ruby Conference that Ruby and PHP are the languages of choice for new web applications.
Both Ruby and PHP are open source and therefore it comes as no surprise that both these languages are being taken up far more quickly than established languages like [...]

BuildingWebApps.com – A great resource for Ruby on Rails Developers

Chandesh Parekh
by Chandesh Parekh
in PHP, Ruby on Rails, Useful Web Sites, Web Development and Programming
June 17, 2008

I know this has nothing, well almost nothing, to do with Internet-related business but I’m so impressed with this site and its founders that I just had to write about it.
For those of you who may not know of it, Rails is a web development framework built using the programming language Ruby. The framework is [...]

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