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ThinkPHP Blog: Multilingual Websites with PHP
posted Tuesday July 15, 2008 @ 07:55:38
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BY CHRIS CORNUTT
On the ThinkPHP blog, Florian Eibeck has posted an overview of some key things to consider when internationalizing your application/website.
The biggest problem is that most developers lack knowledge about Internationalisation, Localisation, Character encodings, Unicode and all those terms connected with multilingualism. The following article should give you a basic understanding and show you how to avoid those funny characters.
He defines a few terms - internationalization, ASCII, unicode and the UTF-8/ISO-8859 character sets. He mentions how to accept the utf-8 string into your application and how to use it in both PHP and store it in a MySQL database.
tagged with: multilingual website internationalization i18n utf8 unicode
PHPClasses.org: Book Review Drupal Creating Blogs, Forums, Portals and Community Websites
posted Monday July 14, 2008 @ 12:51:58
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BY CHRIS CORNUTT
The PHPClasses.org website has posted a new book review about the Packt Publishing offering "Drupal: Creating Blogs, Forums, Portals and Community Websites" (book by David Mercer, review by Zoltan Hunt).
This Packt book takes the reader through installing the Drupal software, configuring and theming, adding content and deploying a Web site. It is aimed at the end user who is looking to setup and customize Drupal's themes, but not actually write their own modules, which would be a topic for book on its own.
The review talks about some of the origins of the content management system, the contents of the book (use cases, introductions to the functionality, etc) and how to manage your site.
tagged with: drupal book review davidmercer blog forum portal community website
Symfony Blog: How to create an optimized version of your website for the iPhone in symfony 1.1
posted Thursday June 12, 2008 @ 14:24:10
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BY CHRIS CORNUTT
With the recent stir caused by the new iPhone, it's only natural that developers are looking for easy ways to make their sites as compatible as possible with the mobile platform. The Symfony project has posted a guide to helping you make your apps optimized for mobile use.
symfony 1.1 introduces native support for different formats and mime-types. This means that the same model and controller can have different templates based on the requested format. The default format is still HTML but symfony supports several other formats out of the box as defined in the factories.yml file.
Using this system, it's easy to add new output formats by adding to the default layouts the framework comes equipped with. The Content-Type can be changed and layouts can be disabled as needed. This lets you make a custom definition just for use with the iPhone without a lot of hassle.
They also include an example of how to make one of these optimized layouts, including some iPhone "screenshots" of the resulting pages.
tagged with: optimize iphone website version symfony layout contenttype
PHPFreaks.com: The creation of the new site
posted Thursday May 29, 2008 @ 09:31:01
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BY CHRIS CORNUTT
With the successful relaunch of the PHPFreaks.com website recently, Daniel Egeberg wanted to share a little glimpse behind the work that it took to get to that place. In this new blog entry, he talks about the technology, code and design aspects they worked through.
I thought that, seeing as this is a programmer community, the people who have not had the privilege to have access to the forums where these things were discussed or access to the code itself might be interested in knowing a bit about the underlying technology and code that powers this website
Some of the technologies they use include the Zend Framework running on a CentOS with PHP5.2. Some of the highlights in the coding process included updates to Zend_Auth, using Zend_Acl for access management, content management and other various packages (like Zend_Feed, Zend_Form, Zend_Db, etc).
tagged with: creation new release website technology code zendframework centos
Andi Gutmans' Blog: Launched andigutmans.com
posted Monday May 05, 2008 @ 12:01:26
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BY CHRIS CORNUTT
Andi Gutmans of Zend has posted about the next step in his personal growth on the internet - a personal site/blog of his own over at andigutmans.com.
For years I've wanted to run a personal Web site but never found the time to do it. A couple of weeks ago a few Zenders and I started leasing a dedicated server which gave us each a bit more hosting flexibility. Once we got the machine up and running I decided it was finally time to actually launch my own personal Web site.
He lists the technologies he's using including the Zend Framework, the Zend_Gdata component and the Zend_Cache (for local caching of his blog feeds from Blogger).
tagged with: andigutmans blog personal website zendframework gdata cache twitter
PHPClasses.org: Book Review - Building Websites with Joomla! 1.5
posted Thursday May 01, 2008 @ 15:17:24
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BY CHRIS CORNUTT
PHPClasses.org has posted a review of a new PHP-related book from Packt Publishing, "Building Websites with Joomla! 1.5":
This book is a tutorial guide to Joomla! 1.5. It was written and published during the development of Joomla! 1.5. It is intended for Web developers, designers, Web masters, content editors and marketing professionals. It is suitable for anyone starting out with Joomla! 1.5, for people who upgrade to Joomla! 1.5, and for those who just want have a good printed manual at hand.
R.L. (the reviewer) goes through some of the chapters, detailing their content including some of the software mentioned in them (like Fireboard and DOCman). He recommends the book to anyone looking for a good in-hand Joomla! resource but notes that a chapter on security would have been a nice addition.
tagged with: book review website joomla packt publishing
Site News: Making the Move to the Solar Framework
posted Wednesday March 12, 2008 @ 13:35:07
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BY CHRIS CORNUTT
As you may (or may not, if you're a feed reader) have noticed, a few things have just changed around here. PHPDeveloper.org has made the move away from the Zend Framework over to the Solar Framework, and to answer the question of why - really it was just to try something new. We'd been using the Zend Framework since around back when it first hit the scene and felt like it was time for a change.
Paul Jones, Rodrigo Moraes, Antti Holvikari and the crew have done a fine job in producing a framework that's not only easy to use but makes building powerful web applications nice and easy. You can check out more about the framework on its site, SolarPHP.com.
That said, I'm sure there'll be a few growing pains as this new version of the site gets settled in, so bear with us. If you happen to spot something that might be an issue or just an opinion you want to share, drop us a line at info@phpdeveloper.org to let us know.
tagged with: solarframework solar application development website
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