Many PHP frameworks base on the MVC model and of them, CodeIgniter can be the most simple and easy to use framework. I use CI in some projects and day by day, I love it more because of its simplicity.
CodeIgniter is not the best choice compare to some other well-known frameworks out there like Symfony, [...]

A simple resizing tool for PHP developers with resizing, cropping and framing functions. It also provide a simple method isImage() that can be used to detect an uploaded file is truly an image or not, preventing malicious code uploaded onto site in image form.

The Sony PlayStation member site: http://www.playersrepublic.fr.
Yii helps to build this site in two months, about 60 mandays of development and 15 days for project management. Also rank high in the credits is ShadowBox, a great javascript library to display lightboxes.

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.

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 [...]

It is now ending of our lunar New Year eve and I start to write some first lessons in the learning PHP series. The fact is that Wordpress blog is not very good in content management and so the PHP lessons will be mixed up with other articles. However, I will try to create a [...]

Every time you start building a complete website with some modules and functionalities, you start thinking about the “structure” of your system or in other word, the framework you use through the system. For a PHP website, MVC is the most widely use framework or programming model where M is the Model which [...]

Because it’s the most popular web server in use, you might think that Apache is a complicated piece of software, but it’s not difficult at all.
Installing Apache for Windows is a simple task, due in great part to the installation wizard distributed by the Apache Group. While running any web server on a Windows operating [...]