This tutorial will help you prepare a Magento install for high traffic, better load times, and simpler ongoing site management. Ready?
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Aspect-Oriented Programming in PHP
There’s a new player in town, and he brought new toys: The PHP World welcomes FLOW3, an enterprise application framework written and backed by the community of the TYPO3 CMS. FLOW3 can be used as standalone full-stack framework for your applications. It’s interesting, because it introduces some concepts of software development that haven’t been adapted to PHP before.
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Advanced CodeIgniter Profiling With XHProf
There are a number of ways to profile and monitor the performance of PHP code in a development environment, but once it’s been let loose on a production server its extremely difficult to know what’s going on when your app is getting accessed by your users.
In March 2009, Facebook released XHProf, a function level profiler that allows you to identify bottlenecks in your application. And it runs on a production server with little overhead.
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AJAX User Table Management in CodeIgniter: New on Premium
Learn how to use CodeIgniter and the jQuery library to create a slick, AJAX-utilizing management page for a typical “Users” table, and discover some of the awesome features of jQuery UI.
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Create Instagram Filters With PHP
In this tutorial, I’ll demonstrate how to create vintage (just like Instagram does) photos with PHP and ImageMagick. Wait? What? Yes, you can do this very thing with PHP and ImageMagick, and that’s just scratching the surface!
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PHP 5.4 is Here! What You Must Know
PHP 5.4 is here; the next major step forward since version 5.3 – keeping PHP 6 (full Unicode support) on hold for now. The latest enhancements significantly improve its elegance, while removing deprecated functionality, resulting in a dramatic optimization of the runtime (up to 20% more speed and memory usage reduction).
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Why You’re a Bad PHP Programmer
We all have our bad habits. In this article, we’ll go over a list of bad practices that are worth examining, reevaluating, and correcting immediately.
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Elevate Your PHP to the Cloud
This article will walk you through cloud hosting for your PHP application with Pagoda Box. It’ll detail how to handle PHP dependencies, get your MySQL databases up and running (and debug locally), and customise various aspects of PHP with ease.
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