Most PHP developers utilizing MVC frameworks would argue that the best approach for models are classes with a varied number of getters and setters. After a long time working with PHP and especially MVC frameworks and data mining/retrieval, I am of a completely different opinion and I will discuss why.
Foreword So the other day while building a Facebook application, I needed to get some information that I just couldn’t find any way to get other than through the use of FQL Needless to say, finding examples of FQL are plentiful. However, examples that use FQL and the Facebook PHP Read more…
Foreword The following is a tutorial for creating PHP scripted daemons. All examples will be performed on CentOS linux. The daemon code itself will be written in PHP with a BASH script wrapper. Getting Started So to get started, let’s create a simple PHP file that will be executed as Read more…
Foreword The following is a quick start guide for gettting Solr configured, up and running in a few minutes. All of my examples will be performed on CentOS Linux. Getting Started First things first, make sure you have Java installed and ready. Next download a Solr release: http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/lucene/solr/ Then extract Read more…
Getting Started So first things first. If you haven’t used Hadoop before you’ll first need to download a Hadoop release and make sure you have Java and PHP installed. To download Hadoop head over to: http://hadoop.apache.org/common/releases.html Click on download a release and choose a mirror. I suggest choosing the most Read more…
Introduction I recently worked on a project that required encryption and decryption by and between .NET and PHP. By default, the 2 technologies don’t mesh very well. Being that the data was originally being encrypted and decrypted by .NET, I had to write PHP code that worked with the encryption Read more…