I was looking around for a decent SQLite database manager and came across an addon that works just great!

SQLite Manager by Tarakant Tripathy and Mrinal Kant
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5817

It supports the SQLite3 format which gives you more robust support from more data types to views and triggers.

I recently installed Zend Server CE on my MacBook Pro to check out the performance of the "partial page" caching Zend offers in their platform.

I was pleasantly surprised how simple it was to get up and running. Zend Platform CE installs its own version of Apache, PHP. If you're installing it on Windows or Mac, it will also install MySQL.

Everything is configured and controlled in your zend path. By default on the Mac it is /usr/local/zend.

Yes, I read the Zend Newsletter because usually I find something new in it. This issue was no disappointment as they featured some videos put together by Appcelerator, a sponsor at ZendCon 08. They interviewed attendees in a series of 4 topics: Developers LOVE PHP, PHP Developer Gripes, Developers HATE PHP, and The Best PHP Applications.

Today I ran some quick tests with PHP APC using Apache's ab benchmarking tool. The goal was to see how much of a performance gain I could see between PHP APC disabled, then enabled.

Namespacing has been long awaited to enhance PHP OO development, and it looks like it's finally here. At first, I thought it was going to become available in PHP6, but it has been ported to PHP 5.3.

What is a Namespace?

Namespacing provides you the freedom to name your classes what you want without worrying about any other classes, native to PHP or otherwise, interfering with your names.

[img_assist|nid=9|title=|desc=|link=none|align=right|width=100|height=66] PHP5 added a very subtle yet very handy feature in the foreach Control Structure. It is the ability to access the value in the iteration as a reference to the original array.

The best way to demonstrate this is to establish an objective.

Objective: Write a function to capitalize all elements of an array.

[img_assist|nid=10|title=|desc=|link=none|align=right|width=100|height=71]This article will show you how to order a server-side list of fruit from a database using drag and drop behavior and then save them back to the database in order.

I recently worked on a project which required an unordered list to be re-ordered and then saved. I wasn't about to make users enter numbers next to each item so I looked toward JQuery's UI library.

Objective: We will display a list of fruit. The user can then drag the fruit and click a button to save the new order in the database.