5 tips and tools to optimize your php application – Part 1 simple

With php becoming a more mature language and frameworks becoming a standard practice, it’s increasingly important to analyze your code and test the performance where possible.

Frameworks and libraries can speed up the development time and make code maintenance simpler, but it’s important you understand how they work.  It’s not just the framework itself but the entire footprint your application leaves when a user visits a specific page.  Ask yourself what’s involved from the database, to the code/framework, and then to the client through http requests.

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5 tips and tools to develop php applications fast

When web applications like basecamp started appearing, a lot of attention started turning to Ruby on Rails.  Suddenly small groups of technically driven people could release powerful applications in a month or two.  With this awareness, the usability standards for web applications increased and so did the technical challenges for web developers and designers.  This movement sort of left php developers in the dust for a while.  While CakePHP and other frameworks came to the rescue, it didn’t seem like the php community wanted to match Ruby on Rails.  If anything, php has been looking to retain its strong foundations of being built upon a powerful, easy to use library and integrating new “web 2.0″ like ideas to do more than Ruby on Rails.

In this post, I will discuss 5 tips and tools that the php community has provided to speed up development time and improve code quality.  These should help you out if you don’t already know them, but if you do I would like to hear what you use to speed up your development time.

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Integrating AJAX/Dojo into the Zend MVC in 8 steps.

Introduction

If you have been following the Zend Framework at all, you’ll know that Dojo has been selected as the UI library to be adopted into the Zend Framework. The question is what does this exactly mean? I’m still trying to figure out how they are going to use dojo, but right now with release 1.6 you can create dojo widgets (e.g. – date pickers, currency boxes, specialized buttons etc…) in code with the Zend_Dojo object. That being said, you still need to learn a few more things to create a useful and reusable AjAX framework with Zend.

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