Archive for the ‘PHP applications’ Category

Optimising Zend Framework applications (2) – cache pages and PHP accelerator [updated]

[continue from previous post] 4. Use an op-code cache/accelerator (Apc, XCache) PHP is very fast but it’s not compiled. A op-code cache helps. See this comparison as an example of what could be the performance increase. That does not mean we can skip the other optimisation, code bottlenecks should be removed anyway. Optimising code is [...]

Free web-based software for project management

After being part of a new team that works with outsourcing team with dynamic allocation of resources (developers) without using a software to plan and schedule the project, I’m now interested in experimenting some free web-based software for project management [project magement wiki]. As expected, the awesome wikipedia contains a page about the software used [...]

Inside wordpress: notes about common variables and functions to add extra features

I’ve recently used wordpress to make some simple web sites. WordPress is a very fast solution when creating a blog or a site of which the requirements are just a subset of the wordpress features. What we can do with wordpress: fixed pages, site news (that are blog posts), simple search, multi-level page and news [...]

Symfony: password hashing and login

It’s a good practice not to keep the clear values of the passwords in the db, but to store only their hash values. You can do login operations comparing the hash value of the inserted password with the stored hash value. How to do it with Symfony 1.2, propel ORM, MD5 hashing: db schema: Use [...]