PHPDeveloper.orgUp-to-the Minute PHP News, views and communityJob Posting: Artist TribeMy Muse.com Seeks PHP Developers (Topanga, CA)- July 14, 2008 Company Artist TribeMy Muse.com Location Topanga, CA Title PHP Developers Summary We are customizing large scale community portal applications and are looking for coders immediately. This will entail a mix of on-site and some work from home. Coders will have the following skill set: Extensive knowledge (3+ years) of HTML, CSS, PHP, PHP smarty, MySQL, javascript. Experience with AJAX a plus. Familiarity with the Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP...http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/10602 Matthew Turland's Blog: The Acme of Skill- July 14, 2008 In a recent post to his blog, Matthew Turland refutes the rumor that's been floating around that PHP is "on the way out" for serious web development work. Someone I know is apparently of the opinion that PHP is "on the way out." I have to vehemently disagree with this, and not just because PHP is my language of preference. He brings up points about major companies employing lots of PHP developers, how the numbers on usage support its place in the programming community and how large..http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/10601 Developer Tutorials Blog: Turn Your Wordpress Blog into a Social Network- July 14, 2008 The Developer Tutorials blog has a new post full of links to some great add-ons for the popular WordPress blogging software to help make your site into more of a community. Wordpress is a CMS that was built for blogging but many people have repurposed it for magazines, newspapers, blog networks and all sorts of other goodies! But did you know you can hack your Wordpress blog to be a no-cost solution for a social network Well you can, and here's fifteen plug-ins that will let you do...http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/10600 PHPClasses.org: Book Review: Drupal: Creating Blogs, Forums, Portals and Community Websites- July 14, 2008 The PHPClasses.org website has posted a new book review about the Packt Publishing offering "Drupal: Creating Blogs, Forums, Portals and Community Websites" (book by David Mercer, review by Zoltan Hunt). This Packt book takes the reader through installing the Drupal software, configuring and theming, adding content and deploying a Web site. It is aimed at the end user who is looking to setup and customize Drupal's themes, but not actually write their own modules, which would be a topic...http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/10599 Developer Tutorials: Creating an Online Newsletter with Drupal- July 14, 2008 On the Developer Tutorials site today, there's a new article post from Michael Ross walking you through the installation and creation of an online newsletter with the Drupal content management system. There is a much better approach than mass emails, and that is the use of a Web site that houses the newsletter and also limits reader access to paying subscribers. The ideal tool for creating such a site, is a content management system (CMS), such as Drupal, which is what we will be using...http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/10598 Emran Hasan's Blog: Extended Model for CodeIgniter- July 14, 2008 Emran Hasan has posted an extension of the default Model that the CodeIgniter PHP framework offers. The main purpose of this extension is to make a dev's life easy. This extension has been used by several of my devs at RBS and has been proved to increase productivity and reduce the number of painful small queries to write. Their enthusiasm has driven me to post this for the CI fans out there. Installing the extension (download) is a simple replacement of the old Model.php and the...http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/10597 David Goodwin's Blog: Using SOAP and XmlRpc with PHP5 (a newbies findings)- July 14, 2008 In his "newbie findings" posted to his blog today, David Goodwin recounts his efforts to get SOAP an XML-RPC up and working with his PHP5 project and the wealth of documentation he found. I'm no great expert on the inner workings of these protocols....there are probably secret manuals on SOAPXmlRpc etc Iwe failed to read somewhere. This is just a documentation of what Iwe as "newbies" found ... Resources in the list include things like the SCA SDO module from PECL, some examples of..http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/10596 Eran Galperin's Blog: The Advancing PHP Developer Part 5: Design Patterns- July 14, 2008 As a part of his "Advancing PHP Developer" series, Eran Galperin has posted part five, a look at design patterns and what they can do for you and your application. A design pattern is a general reusable solution to a recurring design problem in object-oriented systems. Design patterns are essentially blueprints that suggest how to solve a particular set of OO design problems while adhering to OO best good-practices (which I've recounted in my Object Oriented part of this series). He.http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/10595 Matthew Turland's Blog: Simplifying Zend_View_Helper_Url- July 14, 2008 Matthew Turland has posted a quick tutorial where he aims to simplify some of the functionality that the Zend Framework's Zend_View_Helper_Url view helper has to offer. When I first began working with Zend_View on a project at work, I noticed that the Url view helper was a bit of a pain to use. It was rare that I didn't want to specify one or more of the action, controller, and module in my call along with the other Route assembly parameters. He wanted to be able to get around some.http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/10594 Job Posting: HR Smart, Inc Seeks PHP Developers (Dallas, TX)- July 14, 2008 Company HRsmart, Inc. Location Dallas, Tx Title PHP Developers Summary HRsmart, Inc. is a leading Human Resources software provider, a three time Inc. 500 winner, the 8th fastest growing technology company in Texas and is planning on going public in 2009. The company has recently been selected to be the technology provider for Monsters new Talent Management Suite. We are currently looking for PHP developers to help us meet our growth needs. In...http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/10592 |