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By Rasmus Lerdorf on July 30, 2000 Many people do not realize that PHP can be used to create non-HTML data. This is especially useful for creating images on the fly. It could be simple bar graphs that display data from a database, or even simpler, just a way to…
By Rasmus Lerdorf on July 30, 2000 The above script would be called with a tag like this from a page: <IMG SRC=”button.php3?s=36&text=PHP+is+Cool”> And it looks like this: . The ‘s’ argument sets the font size and the button auto-scales itself to match. Here it is again with s=18: Note…
By Rasmus Lerdorf on July 30, 2000 I needed a simple little example that I could use to show how Apache’s ForceType directive can be put to good use with PHP. I chose a URL-based spell checker since one of the newer features of PHP is built-in spell checking and…
By Rasmus Lerdorf on July 30, 2000 Now change the “bogus” part of the url to some other word. This is how this was done: In my Apache server configuration I have this: <Location /s> ForceType application/x-httpd-php3 </Location> Then I created a file named simply ‘s’ and placed it in my document…
Adobe and Zend are ramping up collaboration between their platforms–developers will now be able to use their custom Adobe ActionScript classes in
By Piergiorgio Spagnolatti on March 21, 2001 One of the greatest advantages when using PHP is obviously speed. PHP4 is in general fast enough for dynamic web content generation, and in most cases you can’t even think of anything faster than it. But when you have to face lots of…
By Piergiorgio Spagnolatti on March 21, 2001 Want More Speed? Let’s Cache… If you need extra speed for your heavy PHP application, than probably the solution is caching. There are some possible solutions out there. I tried Zend Cache (trial-version), APC, and Afterburner Cache. The above are “caching modules”. They…
By Piergiorgio Spagnolatti on March 21, 2001 Web Content Compression (How To Make Your Visitors Even Happier) Now that you have pushed your PHP application’s performance to the top 🙂 it’s time to work on one of the other factors that can make your site seem slow to visitors: download…
By Piergiorgio Spagnolatti on March 21, 2001 Enough Speed For Today. Now Some Other Useful Stuff… Yesterday (24 January 2001) Zend Technologies opened their online store. They’re selling some interesting PHP-related products. Among this, the previous mentioned Zend Cache, Zend Encoder (in a few words a “compiler” for PHP code…