Archive for August, 2007

OneClick Install of Wordpress Themes and Plugins from Firefox

OneClick for Wordpress is another Firefox extension which aims to make your every day’s Wordpress maintenance more simple. The extension is provided with a wordpress plugin which proceed the extraction of themes or plugins to appropriate folder. After installing the plugin, you can install the OneClick Firefox extension. Whenever you find a theme or plugin you want to install, right click on the zip link then choose from OneClick menu if it is a theme or plugin

Scraping Links With PHP

Justin Laing have written a good tutorial on scraping links from any website using PHP . Very useful if you look forward making a link analyzer tool. The tutorial uses CURL and DOMXPath to retrieve data and extract links. However you can also use it to retrieve more informations about the same link such the “alt” and “target” attributes. $url = $href-> getAttribute(’href’); $alt = $href-> getAttribute(’alt’); $target = $href-> getAttribute(’target’); Then you can change your tables accordingly to store these new informations.

Zend & IBM expands partnership to bring unprecedented database scalability to the PHP platform

Zend announced today that they are expanding their partnership with IBM aimed at fueling the growth of production-ready PHP applications in the enterprise. The new agreement includes : Enhanced IBM DB2 Express-C capabilities in Zend Core for IBM, the certified PHP solution from Zend Technologies New support for DB2 Connect technology providing access to highly scalable i5/OS and z/OS DB2 data servers Unified, single-source support for the integrated PHP and DB2 solution stack Support for System i Linux partitions and the System i attached BladeCenter and System x Servers To support very high workloads, Zend Core for IBM now includes DB2 Connect technology that makes it easy for customers to build enterprise class PHP applications that harness the power and scalability of DB2 hosted on IBM System z (z/OS) and System i (i5/OS ) servers. You can read more in the Zend press release .

Paging Data With PEAR Pager

Zend DevZone have an interesting new tutorial on paging data using PEAR Pager package . In this tutorial, Vikram introduced the different paging features in the Pager package whatever the data is fixed arrays, retrieved from database, or XML files. The last sample shows how to search database with advanced paging options where you can switch pages and set Items per pages for results. Over the next few pages, I’m going to give you a quick run-down on the PEAR Pager class, together with a few examples of how you can integrate it with various Web applications while still looking calm and collected.