Category Archives: PHP

I use RedGreen when working on rails projects and have gotten used to the visual feedback I get when tests pass or fail. It has definitely helped with my Red-Green-Refactor flow. I just found out phpunit supports colors in tests … Continue reading →

I have been using the Zend Framework almost daily for the past three months and my verdict on it is a mixed bag. I really, really wanted to like ZF three months ago when we chose to use it at … Continue reading →

The ease of learning PHP and the trivial deployment of PHP applications (just upload and go) has resulted in everyone’s cousin coding with it and the accompanying impression of being a ‘toy’ language. The following tips should help the aspiring … Continue reading →

All the web development frameworks I have worked with have a full fledged layout system out of the box except CodeIgniter. A good number of CI tutorials encourage including common header and footer files to build the final page but … Continue reading →

In response to Wil’s comment regarding the PHP framework performance comparisons I made in my previous post, I have decided to post the results I got. My decision not post them initially was due to the benchmarks not being done … Continue reading →

We are about to start a project from scratch at my new job and have been evaluating PHP frameworks. We’ve shortlisted CakePHP, CodeIgniter, Symfony and Zend. I have put them through their paces by building the same application with all … Continue reading →

I use Windows XP as my development platform and this is more of a note from me to me so I don’t have to Google for it next time. I also use WampServer for Apache, MySQL and PHP and while … Continue reading →