PHPFreaks.com: Template based document generation using LiveDocx and Zend Framework
On PHPFreaks.com there's a new tutorial posted today looking at combining the Zend Framework with the LiveDocx libraries to create PDF/DOCX/DOC/RTF documents based on simple templates. Generating print-ready well-formatted PDF documents with PHP is not an easy task. Traditionally, there are two main approaches to PDF generation with PHP. Given sufficient time and patience, both partially get the job done, but still leave a lot to be desired. [...] In this article, the author presents an entirely new, third approach. It relies on templates being creat

Millwood Online Blog: Multi-site Drupal installations
On the Millwood Online blog there's a quick step-by-step about getting multiple Drupal sites up and running on one code installation. One of the great things about Drupal is that you can run more that one site off one installation. This saves disk space and load on your server, it also saves maintenance time. With only one installation to manage and update the time spent administering your site drops greatly. The process is pretty simple - install Drupal normally and set it up for the main domain, then change the directory name for the settings and add another for the new

Brandon Savage's Blog: Why Every Developer Should Write Their Own Framework
In his latest post Brandon Savage suggests that every developer should do one thing before they start working with PHP frameworks - write their own. So for those of you wanting to write your own frameworks, feel free. But don't even think about putting it in production until you've read this blog post. Lots of times new developers are shot down from writing their own frameworks by bosses or community members who insist that "NIH" (not invented here) has no place in their organization or language. [...] To me, that doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

John Lim's Blog: Updated Optimizing PHP Article
John Lim has updated his Optimizing PHP article with some new tips on caching data: In this chapter, we explain why optimizing PHP involves many factors which are not code related, and why tuning PHP requires an understanding of how PHP performs in relation to all the other subsystems on your server, and then identifying bottlenecks caused by these subsystems and fixing them. We also cover how to tune and optimize your PHP scripts so they run even faster.

NETTUTS.com: Book Review: Zend Framework 1.8 Web Application Development
On NETTUTS.com today there's a new review of the Packt book "Zend Framework 1.8 Web Application Development" (Keith Pope) from Fred Wu. The flow of this book is heavily inspired by the famous Ruby on Rails book, Agile Web Development with Rails, where the author invites you to join the process of building a demo application, which in both cases is a shopping cart system. He mentions how "short" the book is (at 350 pages)