PHP is now quite old in industry and has been used widely in web based applications. PHP has also evolved much more as enterprise web application language. But PHP still lacks a lot many features, which are very commonly and heavily used in Java, .Net or any other enterprise language. One of those lacking features [...]
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Symfony is a one of the best open-source PHP web application frameworks with a huge and comprehensive documentation. Symfony comes with default inbuilt testing framework for functional and unit testing. I recently started working on Symfony functional test cases. I personally found the testing framework very strong and useful. When I was writing functional test [...]
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Ever wanted to have a dynamic option list in your Webform select widget ( checkbox, radiobutton, dropdown ) ? Well, I wanted to load a dynamic list of dates in a Webform and display them as checkboxes. I faced this problem when I was developing a training website where each training class would have different [...]
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Over the past few days I was going through the Zend Framework reference docs and I found myself pleasantly surprised with all that the latest version of this web application framework provides. My first thought was to just acknowledge the speed in which PHP as a technology has been maturing. Out of the many new [...]
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PHP is becoming better day by day. As I proceed in my path of catching up with recent developments in PHP, I see more and more of adaption in PHP from JEE(Java Enterprise Edition) world. To begin with, I stumbled upon the unit testing framework PHPUnit. The amount of familiarity with the J2EE world is [...]
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