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18 days
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Zend Framework 1.7.0 has been released and is now available from the Zend Framework download site
Posted
18 days
ago
When it comes to working with different file formats, PHP is like a Swiss Army knife: it has a tool to handle almost anything you can throw at it. JPEG images, XML files, Word documents, ZIP archives…you name it, and there’s a PHP
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extension to handle it!
This incredible versatility also applies to the topic of today’s article: the PDF, or Portable Document Format. Not content with just one, PHP actually comes with two different extensions that allow developers to dynamically generate PDF documents: the PDFlib extension, and the libHaru extension. Over the next few pages, I’m going to take a quick look at the Haru extension, providing you with a brief overview of its functions and demonstrating how you can use it in your PHP development. So come on it, and let’s get going! [Less]
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about 1 month
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Supporting open-source PHP projects can be done by for example contributing code, writing or translating documentation or by fixing bugs. The latter is not usually the most exciting task, but still is quite important as the amount of bugs is an
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indication for the overall quality of the project. With this in mind, the Belgian PHP user group PHPBelgium and the Dutch PHP user group, phpGG, have decided to work together and launched a new initiative, called PHP BugHunt Days. [Less]
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about 1 month
ago
The Zend implementation of Lucene provides a powerful tool set for those looking to implement a Google-like search for their PHP web application. One of the requirements in creating a Google-like search with Zend is the creation of a stemming, stop
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word filtering, lower-casing analyzer. This article will briefly discuss the basic role of an analyzer in the Lucene API, my implementation of a new “StandardAnalyzer” for the Zend_Search_Lucene component of the Zend Framework, the inner workings of this analyzer, and its basic usage. [Less]
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about 1 month
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We are excited to announce that the Zend Framework 1.7 Preview Release is now available from the Zend Framework download site!