We’ve wanted to show you how we run our site for many years, but have always struggled with synthesizing a good example—until now. In this three-part article, Marco and Cal show how they built a cool, cross-platform mobile dashboard for visualizing sales.

php|architect is proud to announce the winners of the 2011 Impact Awards as selected by our readers.

Today, we’re introducing our two most recent books in ePub and MOBI. Whip out your Kindles and start learning!

Zend has just announced their latest partnership with RightScale, a leader in cloud computing management, to provide you with a new Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering. This is not just your typical PaaS, though, this will provide a “solution for deploying and managing business-critical PHP applications with high availability, elasticity and portability in the cloud.”

Adobe Flash Builder 4.5 will soon be available (release is currently scheduled for early May) to the PHP development community. Version 4.5, though, is not just the latest version of Flash Builder, it is the beginning of a partnership between Zend and Adobe. Flash Builder 4.5 is under the Adobe umbrella, but will come with Zend Studio 8 bundled in and will have the full backing of Zend. You will now be able to create mobile applications using the Adobe Flash platform and PHP in one integrated application. Both Flash Builder and Zend Studio have been built on the Eclipse platform, so you will be able to build Flex and PHP side-by-side.

A knowledgeable developer is a happy developer. Introducing php|architect Live—great training that doesn’t break the bank.

In an industry where everything is built by volunteers, how can you say thank you enough. It’s not nearly enough but we want to give our subscribers a chance to recognize projects that have had an impact on their lives.

On Monday March 14,2011 Internet Explorer 9 was released. A lot of people have been hoping that IE 9 would be better than the previous versions, and interestingly there are some people still rooting for IE 6 to stay alive. As developers we have to recognize that, whether we like it or not,IE exists. Does IE 9 live up to the hype? Does it make sense for us to use?

Welcome to the 2012 Impact Awards! The Impact Awards are php|architect’s way of recognizing projects that have had a significant impact on the PHP world in the past year. We have picked a brand new batch of projects and product for our 2012 edition! Ready to vote? Click here. Categories and Nominees For this year’s […]

I remember fondly back in the day, when PHP 4.0 was all the rage, that if you wanted to interface with MySQL there was one choice: the PHP mysql extension. Then came database abstraction layers ( such as ADODB and PEAR_DB ) and newer extensions ( namely PDO and mysqli ), all with the goal of simplifying the code needing written to be able to get data successfully out of a database. But even then, it still could get a bit complex. Fortunately, someone saw this and wrote a library to make it even simpler.