'PHP' Category

• Route middleware with Lithium

  January 3, 2012

  I spend most of my day switching between languages. Sometimes I start the morning with an early dose of LUA, then I get a lot of Python and C++, followed by the yummy dessert that is Node.js. But there’s always room for PHP. So let’s talk about PHP today. People often think that when you [...]

  posted in Lithium, PHP by mariano

• Book release: CakePHP 1.3 Application Development Cookbook

  March 30, 2011

  Just a few days ago, I was happy to see my first book published. Entitled CakePHP 1.3 Application Development Cookbook, it’s a book released in the form of a cookbook, with a series of solutions to common problems one faces when developing CakePHP applications. While working on it, I tried to aim for developers at [...]

  posted in CakePHP, PHP by mariano

• Let your MySQL partition breathe

  February 28, 2009

  Today I noticed my MySQL partition was taking over 86 GB of the available 120 GB. So I got worried and I wrote this little script to tell me how much space each DB I have is taking: <?php function format($size) { $unit = ‘B’; $units = array( ‘GB’ => 1024 * 1024 * 1024 [...]

  posted in PHP by mariano

• MSN Search API PHP Client

  September 15, 2005

  Microsoft has recently published their own MSN Search API (now competing with Google and Yahoo) implemented as a SOAP Web Service. After some deliberation on the MSN Search API forums, I managed to develop a small PHP class to handle the API (thanks to quodlibet for his help identifying a small bug.) The class uses [...]

  posted in PHP by mariano

• Get a taste of AJAX with PHP

  August 19, 2005

  Some of you may have heard of Ajax, while some may have not. The truth of the matter is that Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) is a technology to be followed. Furthermore, a technology to be used! To give a little background about it, let’s see what wikipedia has to say about it: “term describing [...]

  posted in PHP by mariano