Discover how to use the iterators in the Standard PHP Library

Discover how to call stored procedures and functions in MySQL from PHP using three database extensions: MySQL, MySQLi, and PDO.

Discover how to generate PHP classes that provide common MySQL database operations using the DAO design pattern.

Discover how to install and use PHP Rules to separate conditional logical statements from your source code and manage them independently.

Discover how to execute Perl scripts, pass parameters, and display results using PHP.

Discover how to create a DOM tree from scratch or modify an existing DOM tree using PHP 5.

Discover the convenience of developing PHP applications using two of the most popular and powerful IDEs on the market, NetBeans and Eclipse.

Discover how to write PHP web services and consume them through SOAP-AJAX calls.

Seam uses JavaServer Faces (JSF) as its web framework—and for good reason—but JSF has its share of problems and awkwardness. Learn some JSF enhancements that can help you get the most from Seam web projects.

Bash scripts can simplify many OS-oriented tasks for PHP developers. Even better, you can run Bash scripts directly from PHP, passing arguments, arrays, and receiving output that you can analyze or display.

The OpenBSD, Apache, MySQL, and PHP (oBAMP) platform provides a powerful point of departure for the creation of dynamic web content. Learn the procedures for running OpenBSD 4.4 with Apache SSL, MySQL 5, and PHP 5.

SMIL gives you control of multimedia and text elements in a browser over a timeline, while PHP lets you write dynamic SMIL code. The combination produces nicely-timed presentations.

Find out how to automate PHP scripts so they run unattended at scheduled times on both Windows and Linux.

Get an introduction to Zend Framework's search component for PHP, Zend_Search_Lucene. This full text search engine is based on the popular Apache Lucene project, a search engine for Java.

Corporate adoption of PHP is on the rise. That means jobs for PHP developers, revenue for Zend Technologies, and maybe some ambiguity in the PHP community as growth makes for strange bedfellows.

MDB2_Schema lets you create and alter database schemas in an RDBMS-independent manner.

Cloud computing shows up in last place in a survey of top CIOs priority lists.

Discover how to use internationalized numbers, currencies and dates/times with the I18N PEAR package.

Template engines have long been the de-facto standard for rendering views in Java web development. Learn why templates are far from ideal and how Groovy builders provide a literate solution for bringing view rendering back into your code.

Build a system to securely talk to your Linux server via email using an email client, GnuPG, procmail, and PHP.