In this article I will introduce you to the Zend_Service_Amazon_S3 component of the Zend Framework. This component makes use of Amazon Web Services (AWS) to manage files on Amazon's Simple Storage Service (S3).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

One of the most useful and important aspects of JavaScript developments is that of event handling. Prototype simplifies this process by providing a number of helpful methods for doing so. In this, the fourth article of "Eight of Weeks of Prototype", we will look at how Prototype helps with handling events.

In this, the third article in the "Eight Weeks of Prototype" series, I will teach you about the different data types that can be used in Prototype (on top of the existing JavaScript data types). We will firstly look at the basic string and number types, then look at enumerable types such as arrays and hashes.

When you select elements from the Document Object Model (DOM) using the functions Prototype provides, each returned element is extended with extra functionality. In this, the second article in "Eight Weeks of Prototype," I will show you exactly how Prototype extends these elements.

Prototype is a JavaScript framework used to help with development of cross-browser code that is easy to maintain and extend. In this first article of "Eight Weeks of Prototype" I will teach you the fundamentals of Prototype, which you will hopefully find useful for all JavaScript code you write.

One useful feature of Google Maps is the ability to generate a static image of any longitude and latitude that you desire, as opposed to using the normal JavaScript-based interactive map. In this article I will show you how to request such static images. We will then combine this technique with the geocoder we created in the article Geocoding with PHP and the Google Maps API.

One of the major reasons for using a server-side language such as PHP is for the ability to generate dynamic content. Often this will lead to single scripts that produce their content based on the input parameters (that is, the variables in the URL). This article covers various techniques and methods for representing these parameters in the URL in a clean and "friendly" manner, as well as then how to read the parameters.

Geocoding is the process of finding the longitude and latitude of a given address or location. The Google Maps service gives developers and web site owners free access to their geocoder, both using the Google Maps JavaScript API, as well as using the web service. In this article I will show you how to access the geocoder web service using PHP so that it can be used in your own applications.

Smarty is a very powerful template engine for PHP that allows developers to extend its capabilities using custom plug-ins. There are several different types of plug-ins, each of which serves a different purpose. In this article we will look at how the block plug-in type works.

This article discusses a simple technique to remind users to submit a form on your web site before navigating to another page. This is especially useful for long forms where the submit button may be hidden at the bottom of the page, or when editing content in a content management system. The technique described in this article uses JavaScript and works in modern browsers such as Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari.