EasyEclipse

A project I wish I had detected earlier: EasyEclipse. What is EasyEclipse? From their website: EasyEclipse packages together Eclipse, the open-source software development platform, and selected open source plugins. They provide packages for Java, PHP, Ruby on Rails, and Python. Just download the desired package, unpack it, and start programming ;-)

Run PHP5 in PHP4 mode

Today, I had to track down a bug in my application which only occured with PHP4. The problem was that I use PHP5 and I couldn’t reproduce the bug with PHP5. So I needed PHP4 on my machine. I installed php4-cgi, but for some reason I was not able to configure it correctly (I am [...]

Comparison of ten PHP frameworks

Dennis Pallett compares in an article ten popular PHP frameworks. He writes about CakePHP: CakePHP is mostly an advanced MVC framework, with a few extra modules added on top. It can handle most of the database stuff for you, and it includes support for Ajax and data validation. It also has a unique user authentication [...]

The right encoding for your Ajax views

Yesterday, I wrote about my troubles with UTF-8. A very similar problem I had today: the content I requested by Ajax had the wrong encoding. I found the solution relatively fast: I have to set the content type in my Ajax layout. Here is my modified Ajax layout: <?php header(‘Content-type: text/html;charset=UTF-8′); echo $content_for_layout; ?>

ThinkingPHP

Felix Geisendörfer and Robinson Levin just started a new blog called ThinkingPHP. Here is what they want to write about: So expect to read stuff about MVC, Drupal, CakePHP, Scriptaculous, AJAX, JSON but not less important: Ways of coding, Organisation of Projects, Code, Real Life, etc. Sounds interesting, and so I am looking forward to [...]

CakePHP is the number 3 of PHP MVC frameworks…

… at least according to mustaphas post Top 10 PHP MVC frameworks. He writes about CakePHP: CakePHP is very promising, the only problem – really, I don’t know if it is a problem – is: the development process is very slow. Hm, I cannot say if the development process is slow compared with other frameworks, [...]