The graphs from pChart are generated using GD library, so you’ll need that installed on your server if you’re planning to use this library. The documentation does mention that creating real time graphs will ...

If you’re thinking of rolling out a Social Network project, try Elgg. You can launch your own Social Network without writing a line of code. Elgg is a open source social network platform built on PHP. The best ab...

They’ve also got excellent documentation on how to setup the IDE on various platforms including Ubuntu. Here’s the link to the Ubuntu and Windows setup help documentation: Setup Instructions for Ubuntu Setup...

Just came across this on the web, some good stuff for PHP developers who are thinking about their career path. A recent Gartner Research study found that 10 percent of the PHP community are corporate IT developers, and...

Adobe’s proposal for this support on the Zend Framework can be viewed over at: http://gourl.in/1p Andi mentions over at his blog that AMF support is targetted for the Zend Framework 1.7 version. More over at Andi&...

“Zend Framework not only offers a solid infrastructure, but also an extensive component library. The component structure of ZF is somewhat unique, each component is designed with few dependencies on other componen...

Here are some interesting Zend Webinars coming up in August: Aug 13th, 9am PST What’s New in Zend Framework 1.6? Come join the Zend Framework team for an hour long jaunt through the new features added in Zend Framewor...

When dealing with multiple languages and internalization in PHP, some of the default functions in PHP end up mangling up the unicode characters in PHP. This is evident when you have a lot of funny looking characters com...

Set the a future expires headers which Apache sends out to the browser while serving content Disabled ETag headers Removes last modified Header Adds cache control headers These quick hacks ensures that the browser ke...

Mark Kimsal has an interesting article on whether your MVC frameworks handle 404 errors properly. “This post is about the consistency of frameworks. Consistency is key to a low learning curve. If all parts of a fr...