Using MongoDB with PHP

I was exploring the feasibility of using MongoDB with PHP and found that it is a fairly simple process to do the same. For web development I use following system setup: Operating System : Microsoft Windows Vista 64 bit PHP : 5.3.8 Web server : Apache/2.2.21 So in this blog we will see how we [...]

How to integrate Twitter into your web application with OAuth?

Twitter provides APIs for integrating with web applications using OAuth. By integrating Twitter within our web application we can show the tweets posted by a particular user, his/her friends, their tweets, post new tweets etc. Also we can provide “Sign in with Twitter Login” functionality in the web application. So users do not need to [...]

Event Driven Architecture – EDA

We live in an event driven world. Companies, employees and even animals survive and thrive in this world on their ability to respond to any given opportunities and threats. These opportunities and threats occur in more unpredictable manner then any economic theory or sixth sense can map or forecast them. So to handle them we [...]

Multitasking aka Multi-Processing in PHP

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 [...]

Symfony Functional Testing – Form POST and AJAX Request Testing

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 [...]