Packt Publishings PEAR book (PHP Programming with PEAR) has finally been published. PEAR is the PHP Extension and Application Repository, and is a framework and distribution system for reusable, high-quality PHP components, available in the form of “packages”. I co-authored this book together with my very good friend Stephan Schmidt, and Stoyan Stefanov and Aaron … Read more →

At the new students matriculation event I got honored as best student of the class of 2001 in computer science at the University of Applied Sciences Brandenburg, Germany.

Published in PHP Magazin 1.06 by Carsten Lucke PHP is fast! But can you make it faster? How? This article-series tries to answer this questions and shows you how to develop your own PHP extensions written in the language C.

Published in PHP Magazin 6.05 by Carsten Lucke PHP is fast! But can you make it faster? How? This article-series tries to answer this questions and shows you how to develop your own PHP extensions written in the language C.

Published in PHP Magazin 5.05 by Carsten Lucke PHP is fast! But can you make it faster? How? This article-series tries to answer this questions and shows you how to develop your own PHP extensions written in the language C.

Published in PHP Magazin 4.05 by Carsten Lucke and Stephan Schmidt PHP is fast! But can you make it faster? How? This article-series tries to answer this questions and shows you how to develop your own PHP extensions written in the language C.

Published in International PHP Magazine 3.05 by Carsten Lucke Holidays or other special days are an important part of almost every calendar. Some of those days are easy to calculate but if the recurrence-rules are more complex and based on advanced algorithms the whole thing can get quite complicated very fast. The article covers the … Read more →

Published in PHP Magazin 2.05 by Carsten Lucke and Stephan Schmidt Online music-stores like Musicload are currently pretty much of public interest. To show information about songs in MP3-format not even any kind of database is needed but all necessary information is stored inside the file itself. This article shows how to get access to … Read more →

Published in PHP Magazin 6.04 by Carsten Lucke The new PHP5 comes with some interesting changes concerning the command-line interface (CLI). It allows the user to process input-data from the standard input stream (stdin) line by line. In many cases this allows fast and efficient processing of data that comes from files or program outputs.