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Andy Frey's Blog: JavaScript PHP Remoting Demonstration
posted Saturday June 28, 2008 @ 16:22:17
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BY CHRIS CORNUTT
Andy Frey dropped us a line to tell us about a method he's come up with to make a remoting interface between Javascript and PHP5.
This is a demonstration of a very fast and easy way to build AJAX-type applications where communications between JavaScript on the client side and PHP5 on the server side is ideal. This library makes development of such systems fast and very simple.
In his example he shows how to create the PHP and Javascript functions that let the service talk back and forth. He defines a simple "Hello World" style application to show how it would be structured. He also includes a bit of more complex that has other functionality - getting a value out of an array and returning a property/private variable from the backend class.
tagged with: javascript remoting demo ajax interface object
Job Posting: Eqqus.com Seeks User Interface Engineer (Mountain View, CA)
posted Wednesday June 25, 2008 @ 10:22:29
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BY CHRIS CORNUTT
Via Terry Chay's blog:
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Eqqus.com |
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Mountain View, CA |
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User Interface Engineer (PHP) |
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Role:
You will be responsible for developing UI technology for the large scale, high performance shopping search engine. You will work closely with the design and product management groups to define and implement user interface for the website. You will work closely with server-side engineers during the implementation process.
Requirements:
- 3+ years experience developing User Interfaces for web-based companies
- Strong knowledge and ability to program with object-oriented PHP 5. Familiarity with Smarty templating a plus.
- Strong knowledge of HTML, CSS, DHTML, JavaScript, and AJAX
- Experience with database (MySQL) applications, including strength in SQL is a plus
- Familiarity with third-party APIs (Google/Yahoo Maps, Facebook, etc) preferred
- Quick learner, who is anxious to contribute immediately
Contact aknight [at] this site for more information.
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Harry Roberts' Blog: Flexible PHP Interfaces
posted Wednesday June 11, 2008 @ 13:40:10
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BY CHRIS CORNUTT
In an effort to breathe as much life into an old bit of software he was having to update, Harry Roberts worked up a list of things that he sees can make things a bit more "programmer friendly" when it comes to using classes, methods and interfaces in your code.
His list of four is:
- Doc Comments
- Flexible Parameters
- Use method Entry contracts
- Be Stateful and Refactor
The "Doc Comments" is pretty obvious, but some of the others need a bit more explaining. Being flexible with your parameters is more about requiring the least from a developer, "entry contracts" being the restrictions to let the developer know what you're expecting and refactoring commonly used functionality into a easy, single point of contact.
tagged with: flexible interface comments parameters entry contracts stateful refactor
PHP 10.0 Blog: duck operator
posted Thursday June 05, 2008 @ 14:36:31
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BY CHRIS CORNUTT
In this new post to the PHP 10.0 blog today, Stas talks about duck typing, a method that lets the code decide the functionality to use rather than a direct relation to a parent.
Well, if you are into duck typing style of programming, it may be interesting for you to have an object that implements certain set of functions, but not necessary declares it at class definition. Languages like Smalltalk do it all day along, so why PHP couldn't?
His example defines an interface Cow and a class MooingGrassEater and a function, CowConsumer, that does the work. A classname is passed in and an instance of that class is checked with "implements" rather than "instanceof" to see if it uses the Cow interface. He points out a place where PHP itself uses something similar in user defined streams.
tagged with: duck operator instanceof implements class interface relation
Andreas Gohr's Blog: Google Chart API via PHP
posted Wednesday April 16, 2008 @ 21:04:05
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BY CHRIS CORNUTT
On his blog, Andreas Gohr has posted about various charting applications on the web (in his search for a way to show off the stats for DokuWiki) and looking specifically at the Google Charts.
Because such [popularity] data is much better to comprehend when accompanied by some nice graphs, I had a look at the Google Chart API today.
He also mentions three wrapper libraries that help your apps interface with the Charts API. Of course, he also includes some graphs of the popularity stats showing things like web server usage and PHP versions.
tagged with: google chart api library interface statistics
PHPBuilder.com: PHP Object Remoting in Flex
posted Tuesday March 18, 2008 @ 12:05:53
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BY CHRIS CORNUTT
The PHPBuilder.com site has a new tutorial showing you how to interface PHP with Adobe's Flex functionality and to use remoting to let them "talk".
They dive right in, throwing download links at you and working through setup steps to get your environment up and running. With that out of the way, they show how to get the demo set up that uses their weborb framework.
The end result of the article is a simple Flex/PHP application that pulls information from the database and pushes it into a datagraid for display.
tagged with: object remoting flex adobe weborb database interface
ThinkPHP Blog: Mayflower Barcamp Developing a PHP extension for Skype
posted Monday March 17, 2008 @ 10:24:29
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BY CHRIS CORNUTT
On the ThinkPHP blog today, Andreas Uhsemann has posted about a project that he and fellow Mayflower Barcampers came up with that they thought could be useful (and interesting) to work on - a PHP extension to interface with the Skype communication tool.
At the Mayflower Barcamp a few weeks ago we had a very interesting and promising project: Develop a PHP extension for communication with Skype. Actually this project was a merge between two projects: One was to "develop a PHP extension" - five out of six project members never had written any PHP extension or did any PHP core development before. The other project was the Skype extension, with the goal to have a new PHP function that could send a chat message to a given Skype profile.
As they worked on it, they realized that it was really D-Bus (the message bus system) they needed to interface with, not Skype directly. They include some of the code they used to make the connection - creating the message, setting a few parameters and "send and block" the message out to the D-Bus connection waiting. They've even put the code up on a public CVS repository (on thinkforge.org) if you'd like to download and play with it yourself.
tagged with: extension skype interface mayflower barcamp dbus message
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