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Codeigniter 2.0 | What’s coming

Gerasimos — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 11:00:33 +0000

So you are a codeigniter fan. If you haven’t been so busy writing your next big thing, then you probably heard about the upcoming major release which goes directly from 1.7.2 to 2.0. If you want to learn more about it, have a look at Ellis Labs post about it and grab a copy of Codeigniter 2.0 (not released yet, but the user guide is updated with all the latest changes). Also over at haugnin.com and philsturgeon.co.uk you will find more details about it.

Crystal: a minimalistic PHP Database toolkit

Gerasimos — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 08:00:06 +0000

“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?

Dynamically Create Menu With PHP DOM

Gerasimos — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:39:29 +0000

“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.”

QuickFlip 2: a jQuery plugin

PHPmyCSS ADD VARIABLES & DYNAMIC OPTIONS TO YOUR CSS

Gerasimos — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 12:32:30 +0000

“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.

Aptana PHP – Version 1.0 is out

Gerasimos — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 07:32:39 +0000

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.

php anywhere – a free online php editor

Gerasimos — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 10:35:12 +0000

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.