14 April 2008

development tools

some great tools for web development:

FireBug
awesome Firefox extension with many tools (css,dom,network etc) and the best part- javascript debugger and console.
few minutes ago it showed me an error that i couldn't find for many hours . really a-must thing.

phpDesigner 2008 -
phpDesigner 2008 is the PHP IDE for all your PHP development including support for working with OOP and frameworks in PHP, real and advanced debugging using Xdebug, remote ftp-editing and many other cool features

08 April 2008

SimplePie

SimplePie - seems to be the best open source PHP RSS parser out there . ill use it for feedbees.com .

31 March 2008

CMS

Content Management System
why reinventing the wheel when there are great tools that can suit the need and much more ?
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Joomla is great open source cms with lots of useful extensions, plug ins and site templates.. many of them free, but theres no problem to get the commercial too ;)
( installation guide )

25 March 2008

YAML , SPYC ,VALIDATOR

very usefull array - YAML load/dump code.
YAML is very simple language to represent array and hash -like data.
can be used to store complicated static hash-like data in yaml file, and parse it to php array when needed.
YAML reference
SPYC project page

validator is handy simple class to handle php form validation..

.. sourceforge.net .. huge source for open source code

18 March 2008

AMP installers

i realized that i wasted much time on some stuff : the symfony framewok is good but pretty unsuitable for the project. and about all the installation mess, i recently found that there are
AMP Installers ( apache-mysql-php) that installs and configures all that stuff and even downloads pear packages :{ oh my devil. i shoul look for good ones sometime

17 March 2008

extreme programming requires in-deep review... later... )

15 March 2008

symfony

symfony looks like a great framework.. heres the guide .
its one of many php frameworks relying on mvc (model-view-controller) pattern.