PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML, as a server-side include language. It is frequently used in technical communication practice in conjunction with databases, as in many content management systems.
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Build Ajax-Based Web sites with PHP
Learn the process of writing Asynchronous JavaScript + XML (Ajax) applications using native JavaScript™ code and PHP. This article introduces a few different frameworks and application program interfaces (APIs) that reduce the amount of code you need to write to achieve a complete Ajax-based Web application.
Ramirez, Ken. IBM (2008). Articles>Web Design>Ajax>PHP
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Seven Habits for Writing Secure PHP Applications
Security in a PHP application includes remote and local security concerns. Discover the habits PHP developers should get into to implement Web applications that have both characteristics.
Good, Nathan A. IBM (2008). Articles>Web Design>Security>PHP
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Develop PHP applications with Picasa Web Albums
Picasa Web Albums offers Web application developers a REST-based Data API to manipulate the photos and albums stored on its servers. PHP's SimpleXML extension and Zend's GData Library are ideal to process the XML feeds generated by this API so you can customize PHP photo management and photo sharing applications. In this article, meet the Picasa Web Albums Data API and see how you can use it to retrieve photos and photo metadata; add, modify and delete photos; and perform keyword searches of Picasa's user-generated content.
Vaswani, Vikram. IBM (2008). Articles>Web Design>Graphic Design>PHP
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Better Ordered Lists (Using Simple PHP and CSS)
Ordered lists are boring! Sure you can apply background images and do quite a bit of sprucing up to a regular ordered list, but you just don’t get enough control over the number itself. Here is an example where you ditch the traditional ordered list and create your own!
CSS-Tricks (2007). Design>Web Design>CSS>PHP
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PHP is an interpreted language. This means that each time a PHP generated page is requested, the server must read in the various files needed and "compile" them into something the machine can understand (opcode). A typical Drupal page requires more than a dozen of these bits of code be compiled. Opcode cache mechanisms preserve this generated code in cache so that it need only be generated a single time to server hundreds or millions of subsequent requests. Enabling opcode cache will reduce the time it takes to generate a page by up to 90%.
Slaughter, Harry. DevBee (2006). Articles>Web Design>Server Side Includes>PHP
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XML: The Bridge Between GWT and PHP
Google Web Toolkit (GWT) applications, apart from connecting to servlets in time-honored Java fashion, can also use PHP Web services to send and receive data in XML. You'll explore methods to generate XML documents and process them, both in the Java language and in PHP.
Kereki, Federico. IBM (2009). Articles>Web Design>Information Design>PHP
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PHP, JSON and JavaScript Usage
Today i want to introduce you to jSON (JavaScript Object Notation), in short, it is a simple format designed to exchange data between different programming languages. I will show you how to create JavaScript object, convert it to JSON string, and send to PHP script, which will decode jSON string to readable format (for PHP). But that’s not all, PHP script will create it’s own data object encode it to jSON string and send it back. All communication between JavaScript and PHP will be done thru AJAX.
Ditio (2008). Articles>Web Design>Ajax>PHP
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Fifty Extremely Useful PHP Tools
PHP is one of the most widely used open-source server-side scripting languages that exist today. With over 20 million indexed domains using PHP, including major websites like Facebook, Digg and WordPress, there are good reasons why many Web developers prefer it to other server-side scripting languages, such as Python and Ruby. This post presents 50 useful PHP tools that can significantly improve your programming workflow. Among other things, you’ll find a plethora of libraries and classes that aid in debugging, testing, profiling and code-authoring in PHP.
Gube, Jacob. Smashing (2009). Articles>Web Design>Server Side Includes>PHP
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Agile Works Best in PHP Projects 
Agility includes effective, that is, rapid and adaptive, response to change. This requires effective communication among all of the stakeholders. Stakeholders are those who are going to benefit from the project in some form or another. The key stakeholders of the project include the developers and the users. Leaders of the customer organization, as well as the leaders of the software development organizations, are also among the stakeholders.
Abeysinghe, Samisa. Packt (2007). Articles>Web Design>Agile>PHP
