Personal blog of Yzmir Ramirez

So in a recent symfony-zone article about “the best Symfony IDE: PHPEdit“, the author recommended using PHPEdit.   Problem is PHPEdit doesn’t have a Mac OS X version according to their requirements page as of this date.

So for now using Zend Studio or BBEdit is probably your best bet.  Haven’t tried Netbeans, but at least one developer I know still uses it.  Of course you could just use vi if all else fails.

One last thing, Zend Studio probably won’t ever have any first party support for symfony being that Zend Studio’s parent company has their own framework; so I would’t hold my breath for that.

The Call for Papers is open on the Dutch PHP Conference website, and with only one week left. Final day to submit is Friday 13th!

The PHPExcel library can be used to read & write Excel spreadsheets, but what if you wanted to use them to access Google Documents Spreadsheets?

Ever since the big search engines added auto-suggest, hardly a week goes by without a client asking me to build similar autocomplete functionality into a Web form. Fortunately, modern programming toolkits like Dojo provide ready-made widgets that have the necessary client-side functions for autocomplete. Add a little bit of server-side glue, in the form of a PHP script that talks to a database to generate valid suggestions, and enabling this functionality in a Web application now becomes a matter of hours, rather than days. In this article, I’ll show you how to do this using three different libraries: PEAR HTML_QuickForm, YUI, and Dojo. Come on in, and find out more!

On his blog Terry Chay discusses how to handle keeping data consistent in your application, avoiding clobbering data and stampede effects, through the use of a locking mechanism, PHP, and Memcached.

Zend today announced that it has appointed Andi Gutmans, Zend co-founder, as its chief executive officer (CEO). It also named Mark Burton, formerly executive vice president of worldwide sales at MySQL, as executive chairman.

The latest installment of Zend Framework has been released today. Download, install, play with it, and enjoy.

Once again it’s time for the PHP TestFest. This is an event that aims at getting anyone (but especially local User Groups) to join together to help contribute towards improving the code coverage of the PHP test suite.

The first official beta of PHP 5.3 has been released today. You can download to begin testing your applications against it.

Ben Ramsey has an ongoing series of articles discussing the various HTTP status codes that exist in depth. He just released the latest in the series, focusing on the 400 series of codes.