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.

A closer look at Orchestra.io, one of the available PaaS options for PHP developers.

Chris Kite and Josh Butts join host Keith Casey to discuss Phactory for this episode of the tek11 webcast series.

We’re saying goodbye to paper, and getting ready to say hello to a whole lot of digital coolness.

To encourage people to support the Red Cross’ efforts in helping the victims of the earthquake and sunami in Japan, php|architect has a gift for those who donate.

Dirty data: nobody likes it. It’s one of the biggest problems any web developer faces, where the input given by a user must validated before it can be accepted. Without this necessary step someone could wreck all sorts of havoc on your application, whether it’s just causes errors to appear or worst case opens security holes to allow malicious activity.

Image processing in PHP is a necessary evil but is needed more often than not in just about every web application. With the various preferences in image processing libraries (think ImageMagick, GraphicsMagick and GD) it is difficult to find a library that provides a unified object oriented interface as well as implementing the general tasks in a simplistic fashion.