December 16th, 2009 - Categories: Backend, PHP Tools

Crystal: a minimalistic PHP Database toolkit

“Let’s assume that you have a website with several sections. The site is written with Framework X and you have company blog in Wordpress. You need to show your latest posts on your home page. How can you do this? If you have Crystal installed on your server this operation will take no more than 5 lines of code.”

Need to say more?

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July 20th, 2009 - Categories: Backend, PHP Tools

Dynamically Create Menu With PHP DOM

“Programatically creating menus using php is a task many programmers will need to do over and over again in developing applications and web sites. Most PHP coders will have their own menu generation class that will take an array or an item and add it to a HTML un-ordered list or other tag and the styling is handled with CSS. This has proven to be a worthy solution to menu creation, however, PHP already has all the tools and classes built in to create a menu using DOM. It is both powerful and extensible and further eliminates for yet another class in your tree.”

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March 21st, 2009 - Categories: Backend, PHP Tools

PHPmyCSS ADD VARIABLES & DYNAMIC OPTIONS TO YOUR CSS

“Several CSS developers have wished for the use of variables in the past. Come on, let’s face it, typing in the color #d8a1d9 several different times isn’t exactly saving you time. But what if you could define the variable lightpurple and have something automatically paste the #d8a1d9 value in for you? What if you could have different stylesheets for different browsers automatically load for you? Now you can, and believe it or not, it’s not hard at all. PHPMYCSS crosses over server side features to make sure that your CSS is dynamic and setup the way you want.”

PHPmyCSS is free and you have a look at the usage instructions as well.

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December 16th, 2008 - Categories: Backend, PHP Tools

Aptana PHP – Version 1.0 is out

You must be familiar with Aptana Studio by now. If not then have a look at the product’s page. In a nutshell, it’s another Javascript, CSS, DOM IDE. Well, it’s more than that but you can learn more about it on their website. If you are a PHP developer there’s PHP support through Aptana PHP which is is now on version 1.0. Many exciting features can be found like embedded PHP server (or configure it to work with e.g. XAMPP), debugging, an outline view of your code and many many more. Aptana comes as a standalone ide or an eclipse plugin. Learn more about Aptana PHP at its official page.

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November 9th, 2008 - Categories: Backend, PHP Tools

php anywhere – a free online php editor

I was looking for an online php editor the other day and i found php anywhere. While most of the time i carry my laptop or even my usb stick with a good list of portable software, there are times especially at clients’ offices or something that i need to make a minor change to a php file and all i need is an ftp client and an editor. Notepad is fine and basic ftp functionality can be achieved through command line but with php anywhere it just makes more sense.

php anywhere is based on the EXT JS platform and provides a nice set of features. First of all you can connect to your servers and get a tree view of your files. While this is actually an editor, a feature of changing file permissions is not present and that could be a nice feature to have. The editor by it’s self is nice and simple, no indentation though (come on guys, we all use the tab button for this, do something) and a really useful feature for me at least is the encoding option that let’s me change the encoding of a file.

php anywhere requires a very simple registration and after activation through an email you can get up and running in seconds.

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