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Business Process Execution Language
BPEL for Web services, also known as BPELWS or BPEL4WS, is based upon XML standards. It is intended to provide a means to implement task-sharing in a distributed or grid computing environment both w...
Job Costing Software - The Benefits
Job costing software lets you resume your role as project manager, not accountant. Manual methods of job costing simply cannot keep up with a project�s daily changes....
The PHP coder's top 10 mistakes and problems
Seeing the number of problems and mistakes PHP coders encounter repeatedly I set out to make this list of the 10 most common problems and mistakes done by PHP coders....
Configuration Management
The mangement of software development projects with respect to issues such as multiple developers working on the same code at the same time, targeting multiple platforms, supporting multiple versions,...
Aspect-oriented Software Development and PHP
Aspect Oriented Software Development (AOSD) is a methodology meant to implement new aspects in software component using external components, but without altering the code that implements the core func...
Building Modular XHTML Web Pages with PHP
Learn how to use PHP to separate the different elements that make up a well designed and valid Web page into its component parts and have these parts adapt in certain powerful ways. These components c...
Dating Scripts
Information, listings, blogs, discussions about Dating Scripts, Dating Software, Matchmaking Software, Matchmaker Software....
Marketing manu scripts
A collection of techniques that Mark Joyner has tested and perfected. Just one technique can increase your Internet sales by 32%. Jay Conrad Levinson said he'd easily pay $2,000 or more for this ...
Export MS Excel data to your WEB site directly!
There is a long-time existed obstacle of Microsoft software products usage in Unix/Linux environment. Microsoft Excel is definitely one of the most important programs for a typical user. Hundreds of m...
SmartPPC Pro FindArticles Plug-In
"FindArticles Plug-In is designed to help your visitors find published articles quick and easy, based on the topics of interest. It searches articles among more than 5.5 million articles from m...
ADOdb and Oracle: an advanced tutorial
Covers <ul> <li>Prepare <li>BLOB/CLOB/LOB support <li>Calling storing procedures and PL/SQL <li>Bind parameters, IN and OUT p...
Tuning Apache and PHP for Speed on Unix
Here is an extensive compilation of tips on how to optimise Apache on Linux and Unix for PHP and CGI programs. The tips can also be applied to Perl and Python....
PHP Tunisie Magazine
PHP Tunisie Magazine is a FREE monthly french magazine for PHP Professionnals. The magazine is created and maintained by PHPTunisie members....
Plotting points on a map in PHP
Give code and examples on the basics of plotting geo-coordinates on a raster map of the world using PHP and GD....
Enterprise PHP
PHP is an Open Source language that is widely popular on the web. However because PHP so popular in shared hosting environments, many people have an impression that PHP is only for small scale web-sit...
Reliable & free! It has to be Apache! by Nakul Goyal
WEB servers come in various shapes and sizes. They run under a variety of operating systems, have varying levels of power and complexity, and range in price from rather expensive to free. One of them ...
Advantages of PHP Over Java
This is a brief article on comparison between PHP and Java language. Discussion on history, advantages, and statistics....
PHP: Speaking the Language of Enterprise
This article by Zend describes why PHP is gaining popularity as the enterprise solution for developing dynamic Web applications....
The Case for PHP and MySQL
Unapologetically, my objective in this article is to show that PHP and MySQL are both mature and widespread technologies that can be considered a primary web-application platform, not just an alternat...
Server-side scripting languages
Can't decide whether to use PHP scripts, Perl CGIs, or Java servlets for your next Web development project? This article will help you decide by providing a side-by-side comparison of the functioning ...
Designing Fast Software Architectures in PHP
The recent benchmarking spree of PhpLib, ADODB, PEAR DB, Metabase and Native MySQL has brought more questions up how to to design fast and powerful class libraries in PHP. This short article describes...
PEAR Tutorials
PEAR is the standard library of PHP code for PHP4. Tutorials and documentation on PEAR can be found here....
PHP Caches and Debuggers
This article presents a compilation of all available PHP debuggers and caches, with benchmarks....
Comparing PHP with Perl for Dynamic Web Pages
The main issues discussed in this article about PHP versus Perl are (1) Perl does not separate code from HTML (2) mod_perl is a fine hack, but still a hack (3) and performance....
Comparing PHP and Cold Fusion
A comparison of PHP of Cold Fusion by Mike Sheldon. It's interesting to note that Allaire is moving strongly toward the Java platform, and reports are that CF 5.0 will be an abstraction layer on a Jav...
Why PHP?
PHP is now the most popular module for the Apache server, currently running on about two million Web sites. This article discusses a short history, what to look for in a scripting engine, advantages a...
PHP.Pirus
According to Symantec AntiVirus Research Center, "PHP.Pirus is the first virus written in PHP, a server-side scripting language used for dynamic Web page generation. The virus searches for .php a...
Measuring PHP, JSP, ASP, CFM Popularity
A survey and discussion of how popular PHP, JSP, ASP, and CFM scripting languages are by counting search engine URLs....
What's New in PHP4?
This article takes a quick look at PHP4's new features. Some of the issues discussed include: the difference between PHP3 and PHP4, Sessions, Output Buffering, COM support on Windows, Java support, an...
A Database-Independent API for PHP
PHP's lack of a standard database API makes switching databases difficult and costly once an application has been written. For example, if you write a program that uses a MySQL database on the back en...
Free Software Profile: PHP
This article takes a brief look at PHP4/Zend technology. It discusses such issues as architecture and functionality, PHP3 vs PHP4, pros and cons of PHP, etc....
PHP: Hackers Paradise
Being a good PHP hacker isn't just about writing single line solutions to complex problems. For example, web gurus know that speed of coding is much more important than speed of code. This article lo...
PHP From an IT Manager's Perspective
In this article, Tobias Ratschiller (who runs http://phpwizard.net) explains what PHP is, what it can do, and where it stands compared to other programming and scripting languages....
PHP 4.0: Dynamic Content for the Web Warrior
PHP 4.0 makes its debut. The author puts PHP 4 through its paces on one of the busiest Web sites around--Linux Today--and what his benchmarking shows will amaze you: PHP 4.0 is an amazingly fast tool ...
Data-Drive Sites with Midgard
Zope isn't the only Open Source site-management tool out there. Brian Jepson introduces Midgard. Main topics include: Installing Midgard, Building a Simple Site with Midgard, Defining Styles for Your ...
Evolution of a Super Hero
The release of PHP 4.0, the long-awaited, next generation of the popular Web scripting language, is just around the corner. The most recent version, release candidate 1, is stable and ready to take ov...
PHP and XML, technical or cultural gap?
Classified as "the most popular Apache module" by E-Soft, PHP is one of the least frequently mentioned languages amongst the XML discussion lists. PHP4 brings many enhancements to PHP's obje...
PHP: Past, Present, and Future
You may already know that PHP is fast, stable, and easy to learn, but you may not know how it got that way. In this interview, Rasmus Lerdorf, the creator of PHP, talks about the unlikely origins of t...
Under The Hood of PHP 4
This article discusses features of PHP4, the most advanced version of PHP. Topics include: History Brief, Where Did We Go Wrong?, The Birth of Zend, and Design Changes In PHP 4 and Zend....
What You Should Know About PHP
PHP can help you look like a web-wunderkid while saving you hours of drudgery. This online article / tutorial presents a little history on PHP, what PHP can do, how to get started with PHP, and more....
The latest best-kept secret
With the same features as ASP and JSP, PHP is the fastest growing Apache add-on....as well as .asp and .jsp (and .htm/html for ordinary Web pages), another file extension is becoming increasingly comm...
Apache for Developers
In this article, you will learn about the general development features of Apache, as well as two particular environments that lend themselves to serious applications. The first, PHP, is a strong langu...
A free alternative to Cold Fusion or ASP?
Ask most Web application developers their scripting language of choice, and you'll find that most are divided into two camps - the Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP) folks, and the Cold Fusion users....
Web-Page Generator PHP Gets A Much-Needed Jolt in Version 4
Talks about limitations with PHP3 and the new and improved features with PHP4. Covers various aspects of the new PHP4 in detail....
Treasure Trove
PHP is a Web scripting language that is the functional equivalent of Microsoft's VBScript and Active Server Pages except that PHP is more platform-agnostic...PHP3 provides myriad powerful features for...
Uncovering One of the Web's Best Secrets
From its humble roots as Personal Home Page Tools, PHP has evolved into robust technology for developing web applications. It talks about PHP's roots, the case for PHP, the future of PHP, and more....