Tag Archives: PHP

Matt points to a PHP script that uses shm memory to cache data.
I rather use the filesystem to cache data – disk access is an order of magnitude slower than memory accesses but the operating system is generally clever about caching filesystem reads in memory. I would presume that the algorithms used are more complex than can be practically achieved by a PHP script too.
AFAIR, Apache has problems with Shm segments too although that could be something I remember from long ago!

Tony Marston has several PHP articles on his site..

• A Development Infrastructure for PHP
• The Model-View-Controller (MVC) Design Pattern for PHP

There’s more but I haven’t around to looking through the site yet!

Looks like a very basic introduction and tutorial on using PHP and related technologies. Worth reading for the newbies!

Here’s a preview of Mach II, a framework for PHP, “using standard OO techniques”. To look at later..

Here’s a lengthy article on SQLite! That’s something I really need to look at!

Bah.. link is dead. Grrr.

To display “static” pages here I use the Apache “ForceType” directive so that all requests to /pages/something get processed by a php file called “pages”. Unfortunately that doesn’t work as easily when PHP is running as a CGI.
I found a possible solution in this Textpattern forum thread. Not sure if you can put “ScriptAlias” into a .htaccess file. I just checked and no, you can’t. That limits the usefulness of this solution dramatically!
Here’s how to use PATHINFO to create search engine friendly URLs. Again, it uses the ForceType idea.
Looks like it’s worth perceivering with mod_rewrite after all!

Savant is another PHP templating engine. Here’s the getting started guide, with a nice Model-View example.

These guidelines are probably worth a read no matter what your favourite language is. Many are PHP specific but I’m going to digest some of the more appetizing ones. (you can tell it’s almost lunchtime can’t you?)