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Interview with Jon Lebensold – PHP and Zend Framework Programmer Extraordinaire

February 9th, 2010 · 4 Comments · People, PHP

If you’re a PHP programmer and or have some interest in the Zend framework, you’ve probably run across Jon’s name or heard his voice over at Zendcasts, where he produces and shares video tutorials/podcasts covering all aspects of the Zend Framework and PHP. He has also produced more video tutorial series over at KillerPHP, including [...]

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MODx Evolution: Creating a Simple Custom Snippet Part 4 – Optimize with Caching

January 16th, 2010 · No Comments · MODx, PHP, Tutorials

Part 0: Introduction Part 1: Write and Test the PHP Script Part 2: Create the Snippet Part 3 – MODx API, Placeholders, Chunks In the fourth part of this brief series on creating a custom MODx Evolution snippet, we’re going to do some optimizing to make our snippet a little more efficient.  So far the [...]

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Configuring Zend Framework to Work with a Local Development Environment

December 20th, 2009 · No Comments · PHP

The NETTUTS web development blog  just posted a tutorial screencast that I did on how to configure the Zend Framework and Wampserver to work together.  The steps that I go through to do this can be adapted to any Apache, MySQL, PHP stack with some minor changes. The Zend framework is an open source, powerful [...]

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How to Set Up Virtual Hosts on your Local Host

November 8th, 2009 · 19 Comments · Misc., PHP, Screencasts

In this screencast I walk you through how to set up virtual hosts on your local development server, specifically Wampserver on Windows. As promised in the screencast I am appending a written version of the process on this post for your reference.

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Best Resources for Learning PHP from the Ground Up – Newbie Goodies

May 19th, 2009 · 3 Comments · PHP, Tutorials, Useful Links and Resources

I’ve been teaching myself PHP on and off for a while now, and in the process I’ve amassed sources and links, some of which have been very useful and others very frustrating, with some in the middle.  There are numerous blogs, websites, and forums out there from which you can pick enough information to build [...]

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