For those out there learning php for the first time or want to learn it, this article might motivate you on learning php. Even though I honestly LOVE php, some of these points never crossed my mind before. I loved php that made me learn it, including mySQL, in just 1 week in 11th grade!
Anyway, here is an article listing out the 10 points on reasons to love php.
From PHP Classes blog: Everybody wants to squeeze as much performance of their Web applications as possible. Usually this requires skilled professionals to achieve. Fortunately, several performance evaluation tools are now available to make Web site performance tuning a much easier task.
This post discusses tools like YSlow and other techniques to tune your Web servers performance, as well the results of using such tools and techniques in a busy site like PHPClasses. Anyway, here is the post.
Here’s the main topic will be discussed:
– The browser side also matters
– YSlow 13 optimization rules
– Too much AJAX and external Javascript may kill your page performance
– Compacting Javascript files
– Minimization versus HTTP compression
– Lighttpd: a fast HTTP server worth your attention
– So, how does the PHPClasses site perform?
– A much faster site for premium subscribers
– Free premium subscription trials
– Your performance rules
This guide is meant to give you solutions to common PHP design problems. It also provides a sketch of an application layout that MT-Soft developed during the implementation of some projects. It is by no means either complete or absolute but rather a list of common PHP best practices.
The guide is available here
Peter Goodman writes about 15 things that PHP developers ignore. Here is the list:
1. Reflection API
2. Ticks
3. list(), extract(), and compact()
4. PHP5 SPL
5. __autoload()
6. Type Hinting
7. Abstract Classes and Iterfaces
8. “static” keyword
9. === and !==
10. Variable Assignment from within Conditional Statements
11. PHP’s Magic Functions
12. __halt_compiler(): Halt the Compiler!
13. Variable Composition
14. Chaining Method Calls
15. preg_split
Here is the post.
Stefan Mischook on his blog KillerBlog writes his thoughts on Why Ruby will not kill PHP on. His article “Will Ruby kill PHP?” explains that on detail.
PHP frameworks are the latest hot topic in the PHP community, and new frameworks are being released daily. With over 40 frameworks available it’s difficult to decide which framework works best for you, especially as each framework offers different functionality. To get you started, take a look at the article “Taking a look at ten different PHP frameworks“.
PHP frameworks often are used by PHP developers when creating large systems. Frameworks have different functionality and implementation, not to mention different implementation usage. This article compares popular 10 frameworks.
Several major open source projects and their teams made a move toward upgrading to PHP 5. Many groups and companies are following them. The listed software projects have all agreed that effective February 5th, 2008, any new feature releases will have a minimum version requirement of at least PHP 5.2.0. Furthermore, the listed web hosts have agreed that effective February 5th, 2008, they will include PHP 5.2 (or a more recent version) in their service offer.
PHP.net announced that the support for PHP 4 will end at the end of this year. However, they also stated that PHP 6 is on the way!
For an migration guide from PHP 4 to PHP 5 click here.
