I’ve heard a lot of people compare PHP to a Swiss Army Knife. You know the ones, 5 blades, a corkscrew, a saw…and the obligatory toothpick that you will lose so you might as well take it out now and just throw it away. Why anyone would consider PHP to be like this is beyond me.

Even successful software often fails miserably.

I was recently reminded of a talk I heard back in 2008 at php|works in Atlanta. Eric David Benari gave a great talk on usability and accessibility for sites, and even though this was quite a while ago, the talk topic remains relevant today. One of the main things that I got out of that […]

Down the Rabbit Hole The moment you’ve been waiting for, let’s dive into the code. The application has two basic functions, the first is the login and the second is to fetch sales numbers. Since those are very different, we will need two different controllers. While we are only concentrating on the actual code necessary […]

Editor’s Note: This is part three of a four-part series on building mobile dashboards with Flash and PHP. You can still read Part One and Part Two on php|architect’s Website. In case you did not know this, I love PHP. It is the Swiss Army Knife of development languages, and I can do dang near anything […]

It’s time for the second instalment on our four-part series on mobile dashboards; this time, we focus on the user interface of our application.

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.”