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A few years ago a friend of mine tried to convince me to learn ASP.NET because it was much better for my career than PHP. Not because ASP.NET is better than PHP but because .NET web development is a profession while PHP is only a skill. His feeling was that ASP.NET required education and training while PHP only required a text editor.

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PHP, Apache and any other open source project that needs to compile c language for Windows is at the mercy of Microsoft. Most of it is their own fault but a lot of it comes from Microsoft's hi-jacking of c language standards to promote .NET.

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So why is it so hard to find really good PHP programmers that can do wonders with an open source CMS? Why do developers jump ship, disappear or simply stop answering emails during or after a project? Here are some of the reasons and tips on how to choose a CMS that attracts top notch PHP developers.

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The popularity of Zend framework for PHP is going through the roof. As a result PHP programmers are looking for more in formation about the frameworks development and status. The best way to stay up to date on the changes in the Framework is of course to read the change log. Finding this information is not hard but a Google search leads to the wrong area. To make things worse Zend has not updated their site to give a proper redirect to the correct area. So here are some of the links you can...

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PHP has a number of tools for handling arrays. But it seems that none of them can handle two-dimensional or multi-dimesional arrays. While this may not be a show stopper it is a great annoyance, one that should be fixed or at least compensated for in the Zend framework.

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Hooks are useful and robust way of injecting functionality to an application when done right. But if it is implemented haphazardly then it can cause bugs and chaos. Take a look at a comparison of two PHP hook systems.

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I feel that Drupal and most other PHP frameworks have overly complicated or inadequate menu systems. Here I am going show how to dynamically create an hierarchical array and use element keys as a menu and routing system.

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It used to be that you could install anything on any machine. But those days hve ended. Now you have software manufacturers telling you to buying new hardware after you just spent hundreds of dollars with them. Are they getting kickbacks or what? First just let me say that I liked Allaire. They were one of the most developer friendly software manufacturers of the time. When they were bought out by Macromedia I cheered. Why because Macromedia was the company. My fanboydom was rewarded as...

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Over the weekend I spent sometime testing PHP 5.3 and PHP 6 builds trying to get them to work on wampserver. I was disappointed at every turn. It appears that PHP 5.3 alpha and PHP 6 dev are not quite ready for windows users.

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One of the fist and most important things you can do after creating a website is to add a statistics application. Google analytics is the defacto service for gathering website information. This is a video tutorial about how to add a Google Analytics ID in Joomla 1.5

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