If you’ve inherited a legacy code base, you may find it does not use an autoloader and has an idiosyncratic directory and file hierarchy for its Classes, Interfaces or Traits. Worse yet, it might not use name spaces consistently or at all. So you can’t use a PSR-4—or even PSR-0—autoloader with your code. Well, why […]

The July issue is ready to download! In this issue, we focus on ways you can navigate the business side of working with PHP. Jordan Tway gives advice on how to sell yourself via a polished resume and interview skills. Benjamin Greenaway looks at the place of PHP in startups. In Education Station, Matthew Setter explores […]

To support Symfony 2’s development, Fabien Potencier, lead of Symfony, has release four PHP 5.3 components: BrowserKit, CssSelector, DomCrawler and Process. A new web scraper/crawler has also been released, which uses these components along with Zend Framework’s Date, Uri, Http, and Validate components.

Since development of version 5.0 started Diem has been an open source initiative. The first stable version is now released.

Everyone is using frameworks these days, but which one is right for you?

The latest release of NetBeans adds something many PHP developers have patiently waited for: Zend Framework support. This, and other features, make it a viable candidate for a PHP developer’s IDE.

Symfony 2 benchmarks released on his site show that Symfony 2 is faster than many of the common PHP frameworks out there, but Solar developer Paul Jones has had trouble confirming his findings.