Having a collection of php libraries in one places will help you get your job done faster. It help me, so I share my list. I’ll keep update the list with more libraries.
October 8th, 2009 | Del.icio.us | Digg | Stumble | Comments(13)
Having a collection of php libraries in one places will help you get your job done faster. It help me, so I share my list. I’ll keep update the list with more libraries.
October 8th, 2009 | Del.icio.us | Digg | Stumble | Comments(13)
Most users nowadays familiar with AJAX, well they don’t really know the term.
What users familiar is the experience, such as of submitting form without reloading the page.
So when you build new website or your web application, don’t forget to include this experience. But you also have to remember, there are some people who turn off their javascript or maybe the javascript failed to load. That is why, you should consider to use progressive enhancement.
In progressive enhancement, you can make your web application work in condition where no javascript available or failed, and enhance them if javascript available.
Lets just go with example, we’re building a form that will submit and reload to new page, but when javascript is available the form will be submitted via AJAX without reloading the page.
October 8th, 2009 | Del.icio.us | Digg | Stumble | Comments(3)
I write small CodeIgniter tutorial compilation, it’s not finished yet. Really like to have more feedbacks. Tweet me at http://twitter.com/komunitasweb
Thank you for your feedback.
October 6th, 2009 | Del.icio.us | Digg | Stumble | Comment(1)

If you need to show weather in your website, you can use weather widget such as weatherbug. It’s nice and simple, but maybe you need something more integrated with your website. So, take a look at Google Weather API.
http://www.google.com/ig/api?weather=[city name]
Example :
http://www.google.com/ig/api?weather=jakarta
It will give you xml data, and you can parse it easy in PHP. Take a look at sample code.
September 8th, 2009 | Del.icio.us | Digg | Stumble | Comments(14)
Sometimes you need to parse RSS from other website and integrate to your project. Well you can create your own library to parse that RSS, but before wasting your development time, please take a look these great libraries for parsing RSS.

SimplePie is a very fast and easy-to-use PHP class to parse RSS.
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After years use PHP, there is always a time where I find myself look back to PHP documentation.
PHP has many functions, if you’re new to PHP, you won’t note some of useful function to remember.
There are also some of technique that you couldn’t learn by just looking PHP documentation.
For a beginner, who just learning basic PHP programming, I have collect some of tips and trick to help you upgrade your skill.
April 6th, 2009 | Del.icio.us | Digg | Stumble | Comments(6)

If you familiar with CodeIgniter, then you have realized by now that you can’t have relationship manager.
Yes, CodeIgniter doesn’t have built-in ORM. But there are several projects such as IgnitedRecord and DataMapper that will help you manage relationship between your models.
In this tutorial, I will introduce you to DataMapper.
From DataMapper Website
DataMapper is an Object Relational Mapper written in PHP for CodeIgniter. It is designed to map your Database tables into easy to work with objects, fully aware of the relationships between each other.
Features
Ok let’s start our journey.
April 2nd, 2009 | Del.icio.us | Digg | Stumble | Comments(13)
In this tutorials, I’ll show you everything you need to know to get started with CakePHP ACL. First you need to know what is ACL, and how ACL is implemented in CakePHP. Are you ready?
ACL or Access Control List is security concept about permission. It’s contain a list of permission to access some of resources. It specify who and what is allowed to access something.
In CakePHP ACL is used to specify users access to a controller, or specific action of a controller. Before we get to the how to section, there are a few terms we have to understand first.
‘acos’ and ‘aros’ table is created automatically when you initialize the DB Acl tables (we’ll get into this later in how to part). Along with those table, there is table called ‘aros_acos’ which specify relationship between ARO and ACO. In english it will be mean which user has permission to a controller or action of controller.
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March 24th, 2009 | Del.icio.us | Digg | Stumble | Comments(12)
Do you like CodeIgniter? Here a CodeIgniter round up collection to help you get started with this framework.
Need more advanced tutorials? Fine, we have here.
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When I type this, google for ‘php tutorial’ result 8,950,000 pages. Yes, there are tons of great tutorial about PHP. But when you’re a beginner, it will make you confuse what tutorials you should read. Either it’s too complicated or just waste your time.
So, here the shortcut. Take it and be a better PHP programmer by tomorrow. Hmm, maybe not that fast. But here they are.
March 19th, 2009 | Del.icio.us | Digg | Stumble | Comments(24)