Tag Archives: php

PHP Sinatra Clones (Microframeworks)

First off – Holy shit. April was the last time I posted on this blog. That’s got to be the biggest break in posting I’ve ever had since this blog was created. No idea why but I have shifted jobs and had a lot of work on managing a new toy shop (yes I know [...]

Tabs vs. Spaces

Every time I’ve seen one of these “vs” posts its gone into great length about the philosophy behind such and such.  You’ll never convince someone based on ‘religious argument’. So I’m going to take a different approach here and state who does what and hopefully the weight of ‘who does what’ will make the point [...]

Switching From Rails to Django: Why?

Rails is crap.  There – I said it.  Apologies to the geek with a peanut dick but it just sucks really bad. Compared to PHP – Rails is Great Yeah it is great – its epic in fact.  But then again that isn’t very hard is it considering how shit PHP is? Stop Stealing Ruby’s [...]

Open Source Asterisk CRM Platform

Built in PHP this Asterisk CRM looks pretty wicked.  Its an open source Customer Relationship Management application which hooks into an Asterisk PBX.  It looks nicer than I sound though so I’ll shut up and slap you with some pretty pictures… The Info Link

Using the Asterisk Manager PHP API

Well it’s been a while since the PHP Asterisk Manager API was released and I’ve yet to produce a clear and definitive example of its use.  So here goes. Prerequisites Your Asterisk server must be set up correctly before this API can ‘speak’ to the server. First you’ll need to ensure the Manager interface is [...]

Asterisk Manager API [PHP]

Again with the PHP code! This time its a bit more exciting than a CakePHP component. If you’ve ever used Asterisk – an open source PBX – then you’ll know it comes with a manager interface which enables developers to send commands to the server to help administer the system and its connected peers and [...]

CakePHP SMS Component

I started this blog shortly after getting into Python after becoming fed up with PHP.  Then into Rails and it became (sort of) a Rails and Ruby blog.  I’ve now gone full circle back to my old school days of PHP and have been tinkering with CakePHP recently after getting a taste for MVC architecture [...]

PHP is an Auto-Mountian Bike

After someone posted this article to the dZone site they were quick to spot that it missed one crucial language from the list: PHP. So here’s my take on what PHP would be like if it was a car: PHP was a mountian bike that got crow barred into car-dom.  Its had a lawn mower [...]

Yahoo UI – New DataTable Widget

When I first looked at YUI when I was on the hunt for a simple yet powerful Ajax library I cast it aside in favour of Dojo. Which back then I preffered due to its tag parsing as opposed to pure JS implementation of its various widgets. However, now I’m getting a bit more into [...]

PHP Frameworks Review

Browsing the del.icio.us pragramming tags earlier today I came across an interesting review of some of the major PHP frameworks floating around at the moment. It should be noted though that there seems to have been some unfair omissions of CakePHP’s features in the accompanying chart and review.