It’s been a long wait for the 1.0 version of the Zend framework! The team has announced the  released of 1.0.0 release candidate version, so the actual release of the actual 1.0 version’s not too far off...

Last week I’d finally decided to move off from Windows on my work laptop. After the default installation off the 64 bit CD, here were some of the problems I found: The default Wireless drivers didn’t seem t...

If you’re looking for the quickest way to get your PHP functionality Ajax enabled, you’ve got to take a look at PHPLiveX. It greatly simplifies the process of Ajaxifying your PHP code without knowing Javascri...

Finally an open source PHP compiler ! Roadsend was perviously available as a commerical compiler for PHP with prices starting from $129. They seem to have shifted to the OSS model recently, giving free professional licen...

Pierre shows you how to get a screen-shot of a site using PHP and GD2 on Windows. The examples he’s presented shows you how to get a screen shot of IE, and goes on to show how to get a site loaded into IE and captu...

Looking for  a guide on how to enable and use PHP extensions on Windows? Richard Davey has a quick guide  over at Core PHP: Have you ever run into this problem when using PHP on Windows: You have uncommented an extensi...

Last month there were at least two enquiries at the Bangalore PHP UG on how to get PHP to communicate with the server’s serial port. I didn’t think it was possbile, but here’s what a quick google searc...

Looking for a way to integrate maps into your PHP application without using Google Maps? Here’s an open source project powered by PHP which allows you to do just that. Mapbender allows you to zoom in & out, ...

dBug is a variable dump tool, similar to Cold Fusion’s cfdump, for PHP which provides the following: Outputs colored and structured tabular variable information. Variable types supported are: Arrays, Classes/Obj...

Looking for an easy way to package your php application without having to copy tons of files across servers? Here’s a new PHP Extension which allows you to create and use PHAR (PHP Archive) files. Here’s how ...