PHP Trivandrum

I was experimenting with the prototype.js library, thanks to all who have contributed towards this, and the wonderful documentations avaliable as download, as well as online references.

For a multilevel hierarchical selector of category, where the top levels should not be selectable, the existing ui elements were not enough to show off, with out incurring ambiguity. This led me to do the basic tests, and finalized the said widget. It does not support much now, though I may be working on a extension which will support multi-select.

See the Deep Category Select, in action where it is embedded into an example.

As Johannes Schluter mentions, the results of some benchmarking have been posted concerning the performance of PHP 5.3 versus the current 5.2 series:

Dmitry posted results of performance test comparing PHP 5.2 and 5.3 to internals which are impressive numbers.

The improvements were measured based on several popular pieces of software like Drupal, typo3 and WordPress. The overall performance gian was around thirty percent across the board.

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On DevShed there’s a new tutorial showing how to build file upload functionality into your scripts.

If you’re a PHP developer who has built a certain number of web applications, then it’s quite probable that you’ve already worked with HTTP file uploads. […] First I’m going to teach you how to handle file uploads using a procedural approach, and then, with the topic well underway, by way of the object-oriented paradigm.

The introduce the beginners out there to the $_FILES array (a superglobal) that contains the details about the file(s) that have been submitted. Next comes the construction of a simple form and how to handle the submission on the PHP side.

In this post Sivers writes I spent two years trying to make Rails do something it wasn’t meant to do, then realized my old abandoned language (PHP, in my case) would do just fine if approached with my new Rails-gained wisdom.

“Is there anything Rails can do, that PHP CAN’T do?”

The answer is no.

I threw away 2 years of Rails code, and opened a new empty Subversion respository.

Then in a mere TWO MONTHS, by myself, not even telling anyone I was doing this, using nothing but vi, and no frameworks, I rewrote CD Baby from scratch in PHP. Done! Launched! And it works amazingly well.

It’s the most beautiful PHP I’ve ever written, all wonderfully MVC and DRY, and and I owe it all to Rails.

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