PHP

I’ve recently decided to make the switch to Doctrine as the ORM of choice for any new PHP projects we work on. I didn’t make this decision lightly as, until now, I have been a long time user and advocate of Propel having given talks on it at PHP conferences and even a webinar...
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My guess is this will largely go un-noticed but I felt a formal blog post was in order for announcing my decision to stop contributing to AptitudeCMS and Geeklog.
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Two weeks ago MVCnPHP v0.3.0 was released into the wild. This update really addresses only two things:

1. CSRF Protection - If your views use the built in support for Flexy (via the class BaseViewFlexy) then your forms will automatically have a Cross Site Request Forgery token added to the...
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This is just a friendly reminder that this Friday, March 27th from 12pm-1pm CST I will be giving a webinar on using Propel, an object relational mapper (ORM). This webinar is just one of a series being sponsored by php|architect. The webinar will focus on the basics of...
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I will start this blog entry by saying I like Zend Framework. I really do. However, the part of ZF I don't use is the MVC implementation. No, it's not bad. Actually it's a good implementation that is the product of a lot of hard work by Zenders and...
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I wanted to give a heads-up to all the PHP, Mac and Oracle fans that I just had an article published on the Oracle Technology Network (OTN). It's been in the works for months but has only just recently been published. I have to give Christopher Jones a lot of credit...
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Yesterday, on an invitation from our Information Security Office (ISO), I had the pleasure of giving a talk on about injection flaws, Cross Site Scripting (CSS) and Cross Site Request Forgeries (CSRF). That talk had a surprisingly large turnout and crowd participation was good. Anyway, I took my old talk...
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Being the recent (and appreciative) recipient of a MacBook I've been getting all the usual development tools installed. Everything went pretty much as expected until I got to where I wanted to compile PHP5. Not just any flavor of PHP5 but a snapshot of PHP 5.3. While this focuses on...
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On my flight to the DC PHP Conference in Washington D.C. I had a chance to read a copy of Pro PHP: Patterns, Frameworks, Testing and More written by Kevin McArthur. I've never written a book, I clearly don't have a first hand appreciation for the amount of work that...
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Michael Tutty, a friend and co-worker, gave the below talk at the DC PHP Conference . PHP SOAP Toolkit is a handy way to fill-in some of the "missing" pieces of SOAP support in PHP that make implementing both SOAP services and clients in a way that is inter-operable with other languages...
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