IBM Developer Works has a nice tutorial that will help you begin working with RSS using PHP. RSS Syndication has now become mainstream, so understanding how RSS works is very important to any developer. This article explains the basics of RSS, some of its uses, how to use PHP to create an RSS feed from a database, and how to use the XML_RSS module to read an existing RSS feed and translate it into HTML.
SimplePie is a sweet PHP class that make it super easy and fast to add RSS and Atom parsing to your web apps. The class grabs content, parses and optionally caches the results.
Colleague Mike Haugland has posted his experiences compiling Apache 2.2.3, PHP 5.1.5 and MySQLi on Intel Mac. I too experienced similar struggles - so you may find this post helpfule!
My new favorite web-based discussion forum softare Vanilla, has just left beta! Version 1.0 is definately worth a look. This simple and elegant forum software is easy to install and use. It is coded with PHP and MySQL so makes a nice match with most hosting packages. The UI makes good use of AJAX, so page load times are excellent.
The AMFPHP project have posted a number of excellent screencasts that will help you get started using Flash Remoting for PHP. AMFPHP is an open-source Flash Remoting gateway that’s fast, reliable and free!
Mike Papageorge from FiftyFourEleven has a great method for Debugging Server Side Ajax Functions. He has a general purpose PHP function that writes debug information to a simple text file that then can be opened in your browser.
activeCollab is a free open source project management and collaboration tool. This web-based application is very similar to 37 Signal’s Basecamp project management tool, but instead of a hosted service, activeCollab is an application you download and install on your web server. The tool requires PHP and MySQL, so should be easy to install on most hosting packages.
Business week has some interesting analysis of Java and suggests that It’s So Nineties in terms of a tool for web development. They point to a number of competing technologies like LAMP, Rails and .NET as serious tools in the web arena.
MySQL to JSON appears to be a very useful PHP class that will convert data from MySQL query results into a JavaScript expression in JavaScript Object Notation (JSON).
It takes a MySQL query result handle and retrieves the query result column names and the query result data.
The class generates the definition of a JavaScript object in JSON that contains an array of a rows of query result data.
Each array element represents an object with the properties set to the query result column names. The property values are the query results for the respective row and column.
