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Turbocharge Your Website With Memcached

Turbocharge Your Website With Memcached

Nicolas Sebban on Feb 6th 2012 with 24 comments

Your latest PHP/MySQL website is finally online. And it’s awesome. But it’s not as fast as you want it to be, because of the many SQL queries running every time a page is generated. And above that, you have the feeling it will not scale well under heavy loads. And you are most likely right.

In this tutorial, we will see how you can greatly improve your website’s responsiveness, and help it scale to handle many simultaneous visitors, by implementing a cache layer between your code and your database. The good news is it is fairly easy, and can be done in a few minutes!

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Why you Should be using PHP’s PDO for Database Access

Why you Should be using PHP’s PDO for Database Access

Erik Wurzer on Jan 25th 2012 with 137 comments

Many PHP programmers learned how to access databases by using either the MySQL or MySQLi extensions. As of PHP 5.1, there’s a better way. PHP Data Objects (PDO) provide methods for prepared statements and working with objects that will make you far more productive!

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Testing your PHP Codebase with EnhancePHP

Testing your PHP Codebase with EnhancePHP

Andrew Burgess on Jan 20th 2012 with 13 comments

You know it; I know it. We should be testing our code more than we do. Part of the reason we don’t, I think, is that we don’t know exactly how. Well, I’m getting rid of that excuse today: I’m teaching you to test your PHP with the EnhancePHP framework.

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Zend Framework from Scratch – Models and Integrating Doctrine ORM

Zend Framework from Scratch – Models and Integrating Doctrine ORM

Nikko Bautista on Jan 12th 2012 with 59 comments

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”.

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Creating an API-Centric Web Application

Creating an API-Centric Web Application

Nikko Bautista on Dec 30th 2011 with 83 comments

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.

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Object-Oriented PHP for Beginners

Object-Oriented PHP for Beginners

Jason Lengstorf on Dec 23rd 2011 with 204 comments

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

For many PHP programmers, object-oriented programming is a frightening concept, full of complicated syntax and other roadblocks. As detailed in my book, Pro PHP and jQuery, you’ll learn the concepts behind object-oriented programming (OOP), a style of coding in which related actions are grouped into classes to aid in creating more-compact, effective code.

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Build an Admin Panel with the Fuel PHP Framework

Build an Admin Panel with the Fuel PHP Framework

Philip Sturgeon on Dec 12th 2011 with 103 comments

In the first part of this series, we took a look at the basics of the FuelPHP framework. In this second-part, we’ll be stepping it up a gear and move onto some more advanced topics! We’ll be creating an admin panel for our application, cover the common uses of the ORM and use the Authentication package to restrict access.

Join me after the break to get started!

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Wrangling with the Facebook Graph API

Wrangling with the Facebook Graph API

Nikko Bautista on Dec 1st 2011 with 64 comments

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!

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Easy Package Management for CodeIgniter with Sparks

Easy Package Management for CodeIgniter with Sparks

RJ Zaworski on Nov 24th 2011 with 28 comments

Sparks is a new package-management system for CodeIgniter that extends the core with support for gem-like sparks.

This tutorial interweaves an entry-level overview of the architecture and usage of the sparks system with the creation of dovecote—a simple spark for managing RSS data.

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How to Generate a Complete Excel Spreadsheet From MySQL

How to Generate a Complete Excel Spreadsheet From MySQL

David Brumbaugh on Nov 22nd 2011 with 31 comments

A CSV (Comma Separated Value) file is usually sufficient for exporting MySQL data as an Excel Spreadsheet. These CSV files are data only though. A real Excel spreadsheet has formatting, formulas and perhaps even graphics — the difference between a simple method of data transfer and a professional report.

This tutorial shows how to use open source PHP components to create "real" Excel spreadsheets from MySQL SELECT statements. Interested? Let’s get started!

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