With PHP’s widespread adoption,it’s almost too easy to find a script or snippet to do exactly what you need. Unfortunately, there’s no filter as to what is a “good practice” and what’s, well… not so good when writing a PHP script. We need trustworthy sources, who have proven they have a solid grasp on the best practices of PHP.
We need PHP masters to show us the best principles to follow for high-grade PHP programming.
Link: NETTUTS
At its most basic level, a regex can be considered a method of pattern matching or matching patterns within a string. In PHP the most oft used is PCRE or “Perl Compatible Regular Expressions”. Here we will try to decypher the meaningless hieroglyphics and set you on your way to a powerful tool for use in your applications. Do not try to understand all this in a single sitting. Instead, take in a little and come back as you grasp various concepts.
Link: PHPro
We’re found that a lot of web developers that know other languages, usually ASP or PHP, that want to learn Ruby on Rails, but just don’t know where to get started. Although Ruby is very different from PHP, PHP developers should have few problems learning Ruby on Rails.
In this series of tutorials, NetTuts will take you from knowing nothing about Ruby on Rails (if that’s true), to being able to write fully featured web applications in it.
Twitter has one of the fastest growing application ecosystems of any web service outside of Facebook. For this post, we looked at 37,248 tweets and found 142 different ways in which people interact with the Twitter service. Some of the results, which follow below, were rather surprising.
Link: ReadWriteWeb