Imagick 2 — Image Processing the PHP 5 Way

Image processing, whether thumbnailing a picture or producinga bar chart, is an integral part of most websites. See how toperform these operations quickly and efficiently, using anobject-oriented interface to the ImageMagick library.—by Imran Nazar

Algorithmic Behaviour in Objects

In many object-oriented projects we only see objectsrepresenting domain specific or database derived entities, leavingmuch algorithmic behaviour still prone to repetition and increasingdependencies. Leveraging PHP 5’s object model,explore the nature of behaviour and explain how objects canrepresent, implement and decouple behaviours to achieve moreflexible and architecturally strong applications.—by Ron Pastore

Use the Force.com, Luke!

There’s CRM software, and thenthere’s CRM software. If your current CRMsolution struggles to meet the needs of every department in yourorganization, perhaps it’s time to look atsomething that will provide customizable solutions geared to thoseneeds. See how Force.com, salesforce.com’s“Platform-as-a-Serviceâ€, comes intoplay.—by Jeof Oyster

Phalanger — When PHP Meets .NET

Microsoft’s .NET is hyped as alanguage-agnostic framework, but as PHP developers we could saywe’ve been left out in the cold. Phalanger is aproject that aims to bridge that gap, initially by making itpossible to compile PHP code into .NET libraries, but latterlymoving towards compatibility with the cross-platform Mono frameworktoo. In this article, you will see how PHP and Phalanger can beused with the more developed of the twoframeworks—.NET itself.—by Timothy Boronczyk

Test Pattern: Are fluent interfaces useful?

Every now and again, a new OO concept arrives on the scene.Some have friends in high places and become fashionable; othersslip into ill-repute, or even vanish altogether. Some are adoptedby one or two languages, but deemed unsuitable by others. Find outmore about the concept of fluent interfaces in PHP.—by Jeff Moore

Security Corner: Fuzzing Your Way to Security

If you’ve been reading the securitypublications in the past year or so, you’veprobably noticed authors referring to“fuzzing†or“fuzzersâ€. What on earth can theymean? Lean this particular approach to security bug hunting and howit can be used to improve the quality of your own code.—by Ilia Alshanetsky

exit(0): Freedom—or Death!

Can the Internet of today echo the personal computer industryof yesteryear? Drawing some interesting parallels.—by Marco Tabini