While writing PHP code or planning an application to be written in PHP, Every other day we have to face different aspects of programming, and we also need to find the work around or solutions to the problem we got during our development work.

Many times I surf the online pages of PHP manual to solve my problems and I found comments by other people very useful, so I have decided to compile the list of notes I normally took while working on the project.

Hope this will help someone someday in some situation

In this article you will learn how to install and configure the PHP/Java Bridge and how to use Java classes in PHP scripts in a demo application. To use the PHP/Java bridge, you should have knowledge of Java SE and the PHP5 core, as well as how they interact. PHP 4 supported an extension for [...]

Zend Framework is not only a framework but a robust library for many kind of operations and services. While working with Drupal or WordPress sometime we found that a good library for one particular operation is already available in Zend Framework. You can easily use Zend Framework library in your projects with bothering about its [...]

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Some weeks ago I got an old PHP application to work with. I was asked to look for the potential problems and bottlenecks in the application. So I decide to use APD as a profiler for the application, after installing the APD on that server. I enabled profiler on one of the reportedly slow page. [...]

This question again struck me today, somebody just throw a simple question about EXPLAIN statement in MySQL and in hast I relate that to DESCRIBE. When that person cut the line of phone, I suddenly realize my mistake. I am working with PHP and MySQL since last seven years then why this happen to me? [...]

PHP 5 is in the market since many years, but it still has to capture the market. Why? Is it not efficient version of PHP language? What are main reasons behind slow-adoption of PHP version 5. I am compiling a list of reasons; you can also send me the reason why you have moved to [...]

In this article I am going to write my experience with a work in which I was supposed to do file upload progress bar. First of all I consider using APC then came to know about PECL extension uploadprogress Unfortunately both were not possible for me as I have no control on the server on [...]