Get Start a new eZ Publish project – Part II

In the part I, we started create the siteaccesses and set all the configuration values for the siteaccesses to work correctly. However, there are still other things to do, such as set up and configure the site design and svn version control tool for the project. So, let’s continue.

Get Start a new eZ Publish project – Part I

In the past, I wrote a post briefly introduced the eZ Publish CMS. In these two series post, I will get into the technical details on how to actually start a new eZ Publish project. We are going to set up a starting point of eZ Publish project, named “Multiline”. This project will contain two [...]

Mysql client uses older authentication method in PHP 5.3 on windows?

Just found out the if I use PHP5.3 on windows, I can’t connect to my Mysql5 server. It says my client is too old. After I switch back to PHP5.2.9, things get normal. So, it means the PHP5.3 for windows used a older version of library to compile the code? I don’t know. It took [...]

Review, php|architect’s Guide to Programming with Zend Framework

The zend.com are initiating a beta certification program on Zend Framework. I received an email informed me that I could get a 50% discount on the exam fee and a free study guide if I schedule and attention the exam before the end of this month. I do have some working experience on the Zend [...]

Learn to Design Web Themes and Templates with New Wiki

ThemesWiki.org is a new website designed to provide users with comprehensive, free guides for designing Web Themes and Templates. This site intends to ease the web design process by providing tutorials for a large number of systems at a common location. It is often difficult to find a resource that is focused on providing quality, [...]

Curl better than simplexml_load_file when web screen scrapping

As in my previous post, I briefly introduced how you can use SimpleXML object to load various web services’ API query urls, if you so choose to mashup a website with data provided by the various websites, such as YouTube and Amazon. Of course, the pay off comes when you use some affiliate code in [...]

How to use SimpleXML parsing XML data with namespace and CDATA

There are many social network websites (e.g. YouTube) and big brand websites(e.g. Amazon, Yahoo) use REST or SOAP or even RSS web services to provide the enormous data for developers. Using these data, we can build a website virtually with no own database at all, all the information are come from these big sites. The [...]

Zend PHP5 certification Exam study review 12: supplementary III

Ok, this is the last part of my reviews. This post listed some WEIRD and STRANGE questions I found in the phparch’s simulator exam. You may think these are some advanced features of the PHP5 language, but some of them are actually mention in the GUIDE also. However, some of the questions, I found that [...]

Zend PHP5 certification Exam study review 11: supplementary II

In this and the up-coming Post, I listed some extra questions I found during I took the phparch’s Vulcan Zend PHP 5 Certification Testings. This post listed some EASIER but will not be frequently asked in the actual exam I think. But, they are worthy noted here, they can also serve as check points for [...]

Zend PHP5 certification Exam study review 10: Supplementary I

Since I mentioned before, I didn’t included the Language Basic and Function topics in these series of reviews, because I think you should already have a good knowledge about them. Anyway, if you have more time, then you can following this post to review some of these features in PHP. It mainly includes PHP’s String(since [...]