Site registration working again

By Quentin Zervaas, 11 June 2009

The user registration functionality of PhpRiot.com has been for approximately the last month. This has now been resolved.

Zend Framework 101 Article Series

By Quentin Zervaas, 11 March 2009, tagged in Zend Framework

I have just posted the first article in my new article series "Zend Framework 101." This series will cover many of the different components of the hottest PHP framework around, Zend Framework.

Pro PHP Review

By Quentin Zervaas, 3 July 2008, tagged in PHP, Review

Kevin McArthur has contributed several articles to this site, so in this blog post I review his recently published book, Pro PHP.

Recently Published PHP Books

Practical Web 2.0 Applications with PHP

By Quentin Zervaas. Released Dec 20, 2007. ISBN 1590599063

Want to assert yourself as a cutting-edge PHP web developer? Take a practical approach, learning by example from author Quentin Zervaas, and discover how to...

Pro PHP Refactoring with Test-Driven Design

By Jacopo Romei, Francesco Trucchia. Due out Feb 15, 2010. ISBN 1430227273

Many businesses and organizations depend on older high-value PHP software that risks abandonment because it is impossible to maintain. The reasons for this...

Magento 1.3: PHP Developer's Guide

By Jamie Huskisson. Due out Feb 12, 2010. ISBN 1847197426

Design, develop, and deploy feature-rich Magento online stores with PHP coding Extend and customize the Magento e-commerce system using PHP code...

Feature Article

Zend Framework 101: Zend_Session

By Quentin Zervaas, 6 January 2010

Tagged in PHP, Sessions, Zend Framework (download as PDF...)

In this article I will introduce you to the Zend_Session component of the Zend Framework. This component is built upon PHP's native session-handling functionality, making it easier to manage session data, as well as providing more advanced features.

Zend Framework 101: Zend_Soap

By Quentin Zervaas, 8 August 2009, tagged in PHP, SOAP, Zend Framework (download as PDF...)

In this article I will introduce you to the Zend_Soap component of the Zend Framework. This component allows you to easily create and consume SOAP web services. We will create a simple web service with several methods using Zend_Soap_Server, and consume the service with Zend_Soap_Client.

Zend Framework 101: Zend_Log

By Quentin Zervaas, 12 April 2009, tagged in PHP, Zend Framework (download as PDF...)

This article shows you how to use Zend_Log, the logging component of the Zend Framework. It allows you to record messages from your application however you please. In this article I will show you how to record messages to a log file. Additionally, if you use the Firebug and FirePHP plug-ins for Firefox, Zend_Log can be extremely useful for application development and debugging. I will also show you how to achieve this.

Zend Framework 101: Zend_Registry

By Quentin Zervaas, 15 March 2009, tagged in PHP, Zend Framework, Zend_Registry (download as PDF...)

In this article in the Zend Framework 101 series I will introduce you to the Zend_Registry class. This class used is to allow you manage variables and objects in the global application namespace. This is used as an alternative to using global variables in PHP. I will show you how to use the Zend_Registry class and also provide a practical example of where it would be useful to use the registry.

Zend Framework 101: Zend_Loader

By Quentin Zervaas, 11 March 2009, tagged in PHP, Zend Framework, Zend_Loader (download as PDF...)

In this article I will introduce you to Zend_Loader, a Zend Framework class used to automatically load other classes. Typically you would use include_once or require_once when you want to load a class but using Zend_Loader you don't have to.

Eight Weeks of Prototype: Week 8, A Complete Prototype Example

By Quentin Zervaas, 30 May 2008, tagged in JavaScript, MySQL, PHP, Prototype (download as PDF...)

So far in this series, "Eight Weeks of Prototype," I have shown you some of the extensive features the Prototype JavaScript framework provides. In this, the final article of the series, I will bring many of these features together into a simple example.

Eight Weeks of Prototype: Week 7, Other Prototype Functionality

By Quentin Zervaas, 15 May 2008, tagged in JavaScript, Prototype (download as PDF...)

So far in Eight Weeks of Prototype I have covered the most important aspects of developing robust JavaScript using Prototype; however I haven't covered every available feature. In this article I will briefly discuss other aspects of development with Prototype, that while aren't necessarily core knowledge are still useful.

Eight Weeks of Prototype: Week 6, Writing JavaScript Classes with Prototype

By Quentin Zervaas, 7 May 2008, tagged in JavaScript, Prototype (download as PDF...)

While JavaScript is by design an object-oriented language, it hasn't always been the easiest language to create nicely structured code that is easily maintainable. Prototype helps with this by providing a number of useful features for creating classes, such as the ability to extend classes and to easily group all functions together by using function binding. In this article I will show you how to create classes using JavaScript and Prototype.

Eight Weeks of Prototype: Week 5, Ajax with Prototype

By Quentin Zervaas, 30 April 2008, tagged in Ajax, JavaScript, JSON, PHP, Prototype (download as PDF...)

In addition to all of the other useful classes Prototype gives to developers, it also provides a number of classes and methods for development of Ajax-enabled web applications. That is, it allows developers to easily perform HTTP sub-requests using XmlHttpRequest and to handle the response accordingly. In this article I will show you how Prototype makes Ajax development for developers by covering the functionality it provides. Additionally, I will show you how to easily transfer data between your JavaScript code and web server using JSON data.