With the release of PHP 5.5, so-called generator functions are now available. Generators can among others be used to decrease the memory usage of your web server. This article gives you an overview of the generators in PHP 5.5.
Manipulating DOM documents with PHP is difficult without the use of libraries or extensions. This article discusses the various options that are available and focuses on the phpQuery project, which is a PHP port of the popular jQuery JavaScript library.
Making multiple concurrent AJAX requests to a PHP script, for example, may have left you wondering why the requests are not executed in parallel as expected. Rather, the requests are blocking each other. Chances are that this is caused by using sessions within the PHP script.
Using transactions in databases is often necessary and useful. If several database operations depend on each other, then it was both easier and prettier to make use of transactions. This article shows how the Zend\Db makes database transactions easy to use.
Performing case insensitive searches for things such as attribute values can be quite a pain with XPath. There is a well known workaround available, but it is not so pretty and clean like one would hope for. PHP developers are also limited by the fact that PHP does not implement XPath 2.0. This article shows an additional approach that helps keep XPath queries simpler.
Did you know that you can use expressions together with the switch statement in PHP? Many people are not aware of this. It may not be a trick that you actually need, but it just may come in handy one day.
Do you need more control of your paginator? Luckily, it is not mandatory to have a data source adapter fetch the data to paginate on. Rather, this can be done independently of the paginator by using the Null adapter.
Creating full URLs within view scripts can come in handy in many situations, such as when sending out e-mails where one wants to link back to one’s website. Luckily, Zend Framework 2 provides two useful view helpers to accomplish this task.
If you are in a situation where you need a stored procedure to return several result sets and have to access these from within Zend Framework 2, then this article will probably be useful; it shows you a way of accomplishing just this, but unfortunately not without compromises.
This article shows how to use the URL view helper in Zend Framework 2 to build URLs to child routes. It furthermore discusses a quite useful feature of the view helper in order to reuse matched route parameters when building an URL.