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Zend Framework from Scratch – Models and Integrating Doctrine ORM

Zend Framework from Scratch – Models and Integrating Doctrine ORM

Ready to take your PHP skills to the next level? In this new “From Scratch” series, we’ll focus exclusively on Zend Framework, a full-stack PHP framework created by Zend Technologies. This second tutorial on our series is entitled “Models and Integrating Doctrine ORM”.

Creating an API-Centric Web Application

Creating an API-Centric Web Application

Planning to start working on a new web application? In this tutorial, we’ll discuss how to create an API-centric web application, and explain why this is essential in today’s multi-platform world.

Create a Windows-like Interface with jQuery UI

Create a Windows-like Interface with jQuery UI

Have you ever wanted to create an interactive user interface for your application, but didn’t know how to? In this tutorial, we’ll create a Windows-like interface quickly and easily, by getting down and dirty with jQuery UI, a user interface library built on top of jQuery.

Wrangling with the Facebook Graph API

Wrangling with the Facebook Graph API

Have you ever wanted to learn how to make your applications more social with Facebook? It’s much easier than you think!

In this tutorial, we’ll be building an application that reads and publishes data to and from Facebook using Facebook’s Graph API. Interested? Join me after the jump!

Zend Framework from Scratch

Zend Framework from Scratch

Ready to take your PHP skills to the next level? In this new “From Scratch” series, we’ll focus exclusively on Zend Framework, a full-stack PHP framework created by Zend Technologies. First in our tutorial series, is “Getting Started with Zend Framework.”

The Ins and Outs of PHP Exceptions

The Ins and Outs of PHP Exceptions

Still returning false whenever a function in your program fails? In this article, we’ll learn about PHP exceptions, and how you can use them to soup up your application’s error handling.

Getting Real-Time with Pusher

Getting Real-Time with Pusher

Do you want to spice up your web applications by making them real-time — but don’t want to create new infrastructures for the sole purpose of getting web sockets to work? In this article, we’ll explore how to use and implement Pusher, an HTML5 WebSocket-powered real-time messaging service for your applications.

The Newbie’s Guide to Test-Driven Development

The Newbie’s Guide to Test-Driven Development

Twice a month, we revisit some of our readers’ favorite posts from throughout the history of Nettuts+. This tutorial was first published in August, 2010.

Testing your code is annoying, but the impact of not doing so can be orders of magnitude more annoying! In this article, we’ll use test-driven development to write and test our code more effectively.

A Beginner’s Guide to Design Patterns

A Beginner’s Guide to Design Patterns

Ever wondered what design patterns are? In this article, I’ll explain why design patterns are important, and will provide some examples, in PHP, of when and why they should be used.

10 Compelling Reasons to Use Zend Framework

10 Compelling Reasons to Use Zend Framework

Trying to decide which framework to use for your new project? In this article, we’ll go in-depth about why Zend Framework should absolutely be your PHP framework of choice.