Our first thing when develop a web application is always about choosing the suitable framework. A framework help us to build the basic structure of the application and setting some standards as well as coding convention so that everyone in a team can work together easier.
Yii is highly OOP, well organized and extendable
At low level, [...]

Today I receive a post on my PHP forum about this CMS which is created by a Vietnamese company. What make me surprised is this CMS is build on Yii, a quite new PHP framework that I have written an entry about.
Yii is so great but using it in real application could be a little [...]

Wordpress is a great blogging platform. With tons of plugins available, Wordpress is quickly become a good choice not only for personal blogging purpose but also for making content oriented sites. There are also many sites want to add ‘blog’ feature into it and WP one more time is the chosen one.
Although WP’s plugin architecture [...]

Being redesigned and rebuilt based on success of Prado, a ASP.NET like framework, Yii inherits well designed core components and utilize flexibility of PHP.

Web services allow you to exchange information over HTTP using XML. When you want to find out the weather forecast, the current stock price, or the cost of a product on eBay, you can write a short script to gather that data in a format you can easily manipulate. From a developer’s perspective, [...]

After a week trying to embrace SilverStripe JS treeview, finally I had my friend send me a treeview written on Prototype and Scriptaculous, the TafelTree. There are a dozen of treeview control written in many different JS framework like ExtJS, jQuery, etc. but it takes me long time to find out an Protopye one. Good [...]

I used my old Image utilities class for a long time until today taking it seriously for an e-commerce website to resize administrative uploaded images. The library use GD2 PHP module with some calculation to resize images proportionally. Unfortunately, quality is very low for big images, those are more than 1200×1200 px.
Figured out that GD2 [...]

Prado PHP framework is a really cool framework, especially for .NET programmers who are looking for solutions in PHP. Prado focus mainly in making things done than doing a single task smartly. But coder won’t have to worry about quality of their code as Prado classes are written so well already.
I’ve spent more than one [...]

Speaking a language fluently is the key to leverage that language’s power. JavaScript has a long time being considered a difficult language to learn and use, making the Web user interface less interactive and sometimes, so boring. But in recent years, AJAX term has become so popular and many JS frameworks born to facilitate the [...]

After the first post, JSON Quick start, you know what JSON is and how useful it’s in AJAX applications. This is more about JSON with more examples and advanced usages.