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Creating a Graph with PHP

This Article is about creating statistic Graphs using PHP5 and the GD-Lib

PHP and Amazon Associates

This tutorial shows a really smart way of using the Amazon ECS available for all participants of the Amazon Associates programm.

Building an IP2Country lookup service with SQLite

Using an IP-to-Country database stored in a CSV we build an SQLite database to lookup the country of the current user.

PHP 5.3 and namespaces

They were announced for php6. But as of php5.3 they became part of the language: namespaces. This article will show you how to use them and what they are good for.

PHP Archives

Another feature of PHP 5.3 is PHAR. The ability to run whole php applications from one file. In this article I show how to use them.

Webapps and the Yahoo BOSS API

BOSS - "Build your Own Search Service", is a new open web services platform helping developers to optimize search results in their webapps by querying the Yahoo database. This article will guide you through the first steps of using the BOSS API with PHP and Ruby.

Lambda functions and closures in PHP 5.3

PHP 5.3 comes with a lot of new features. This article introduces lambda functions and closures and shows how to use them correctly.

liteCount vs. Google Analytics

Today I was writing an admin interface for my websites. For a few minutes I killed my blog here because of an SQL-Update statement.. I forgot to add the WHERE part, so by editing only one post I accidentally changed all entries. Of course, I do have ...

PHP Archives

While playing around with a CVS version of PHP 5.3 I recognized a new core feature. It enables runtime execution and creation of PHP archives (short phar). I ran some tests on my local machine and started writing a small blog application, able to run...

PHP 5.3 release

It's about time, PHP 5.3 is about to be released and with it a lot of new features are introduced into the language. Those of you who have tested the early snapshots and release candidates know of what I'm speaking. Namespaces, lambda functions, clo...