German PHP Magazine - issue 6.08

Published in PHP Magazin 6.08 by Carsten Lucke

The adoption of caching techniques allows to increase an applications performance significantly. Especially complex and time consuming operations can benefit from using a cache.

Description. My latest article titled “Daten auf Vorrat” has been published in the 6.08 issue of the German PHP Magazine. It gives an introduction to the caching library Zend_Cache that comes with the Zend Framework. Topics covered are:

• Basic knowledge about caching
• Introduction the Zend_Cache components basic API
• Introduction to Zend_Cache backends and frontend, what these are and which are available

Language. German

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Links:

• German PHP Magazin website
• Zend Framework website
• Read the online version of this article

German PHP Magazine - Issue 5.08

Published in PHP Magazin 5.08 by Carsten Lucke

Programming desktop applications in PHP? Yes, that’s possible. Usually the PHP-GTK extension to accomplish this task. GTK is available for a lot of operating systems and thus quite portable. However, GTK applications often have a different look that distinguishes them from native applications. For Mac OS X the PHP/Objective-C bridge allows the creating of applications in the usual OS X look and feel. This article explains how to use the bridge.

Description. My new article with the title “Brückenschlag” has been published in issue 5.08 of the German PHP Magazine. It provides an introduction to the new PHP/Objective-C bridge extension developed by Wez Furlong. The bridge enables you to write Mac OS X applications using PHP as programming language.

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• German PHP Magazin website
• Blog entry by Wez Furlong introducing the PHP/Objective-C bridge

PHP-Magazin 4.07 - PHP und TextMate

It’s been a while since my last article but finally I had some time and managed to write for the german PHP-Magazin, again. To my surprise my article was even chosen as cover-topic. Yippieh! I wrote about PHP- and web-development on Mac OS X using TextMate.

Published in PHP Magazin 4.07 by Carsten Lucke

TextMate brings Apple’s approach to operating systems into the world of text editors. By bridging UNIX underpinnings and GUI, TextMate cherry-picks the best of both worlds to the benefit of expert scripters and novice users alike. (macromates.com)

Description. TextMate is a very popular editor these days and not without reason! I used the first part of the article to introduce the reader to the command-line abilities and the main editing features. The second part covers the bundle-concept. Here I introduced the PHP-bundle and explained how to use TextMate as a powerful PHP-editor.

If you are a subscriber of the PHP-Magazin go out and look at your mailbox! My issue arrived today. If you aren’t you will have to wait until May 16th, till the magazin hits the shelves.

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Links:

• German PHP Magazine website
• Official TextMate website

German PHP Magazine - Issue 1.06

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.

Description. This is the fourth and final article in the series “PHP extensions im Eigenbau”. The main part introduces the reader into developing PHP extensions using Visual Studio under Microsoft Windows. It shows how to compile PHP from the sources and gives alternatives to “configure” and “make” that make building PHP so easy with Linux.

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• German PHP Magazine website
• Part 3 of this article series
• Part 2 of this article series
• Part 1 of this article series

German PHP Magazine - Issue 6.05

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.

Description. This third article in the “PHP erweitert” series covers how to use resources and gives the reader an introduction into devolping object oriented PHP5 extensions.

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Links:

• German PHP Magazine website
• Part 2 of this article series
• Part 1 of this article series

German PHP Magazine - Issue 5.05

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.

Description. This is the second article in the “PHP erweitert” series. It covers the common techniques every extension developer should be familiar with. Thus you get information about useful macros and functions, more complex PHP data types, constants, globals as well as the streams API.

Language. German

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Links:

• German PHP Magazine website
• Part 1 of this article series

German PHP Magazine - Issue 4.05

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.

Description. PHP is fast! But can you make it faster? How? This article-series tries to answer this questions. The first part briefly introduces the reader to the internals of PHP and the basics of php-extension programming.

Language. German

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• German PHP Magazine website

German PHP Magazine - Issue 2.05

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 this data using PHP. Go, start your own music catalog…

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Description. The article introduces the basic principles of id3-tags commonly used in MP3-files. At the time of press there are two alternatives available that allow reading and manipulating id3-tags using PHP. The reader gets adopted into both, PEAR::MP3_Id and ext/id3. Several examples show all the things that are possible and explain when to use which class/extension.

Links:

• German PHP Magazine website
• Online version of this article

German PHP Magazine cover photo - issue 6.04

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.

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Description. This article discusses which new features of the command-line interface come with PHP5 and how they can be used. Additionally some interesting classes for CLI-programming within the PHP Extension and Application Repository are introduced to thr reader.

Links:

• German PHP Magazine website