Chris Chabot has released a new PHP package called phpSocketDaemon. This is a blazingly fast and easy to use to create daemons listening on a socket. Here’s some of the benchmarks on a httpd server created using ph...

Within a shared hosting environment it is sometimes quite often possible to bind yourself to some high TCP port and accept incoming connections. Sometimes this is possible because you also get a shell account on the box...

Justin Silverton shows how to create an Upload Progress meter using PHP 5.2 and Yahoo User Interface. Prior to PHP 5.2, there’s no way a PHP script could monitor the progress of a file upload, causing programmers t...

Actuate Corporation and Zend Technologies today announced that they have teamed up to allow PHP developers to quickly add reporting capabilities to web applications using Actuate BIRT. The new functionality is available...

Here’s a benchmark of PHP v5.1 with v5.2 The benchmark was conducted on one computer where the author first loaded PHP 5.1.6 then PHP 5.2.0, and only the PHP software changed. http://www.improvedsource.com/view.php/Web...

Microsoft seems to be on a partnership spree with open source technologies of late. I know this is old news, I just got around to reading the news after a few hectic weeks. Zend has partnered with Microsoft to get PHP de...

After an extremely long (IMO) release cycle the final version of PHP 5.2.0 was finally released yesterday morning. There are many new features, speed improvements and a fair number of security changes. You can read the o...

If you would like to prevent Apache from exposing the version information in every request to the server, all you have to do is to put in the following lines into your apache configuration file: ServerTokens ProductOnly ...

Did you know that the fastest way to check in PHP to see if you’re running on windows is: $iswindows = DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR == '\\\\'; or the fastest way to get the time without even calling a function is: $currentt...

I’m sure most of us have encountered the following error message while playing with the header function in PHP “Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by …” How can we detect whether the script h...