Learn about shared memory and how to use it in web applications as a data storage option, benefiting from high speed, reliability, and data exchange with other applications. The examples provided will show its use to solve common problems in web application development.

Behat is an open source Behavior Driven Development (BDD) framework for PHP inspired by the Ruby Cucumber BDD framework.

Use Flash Builder for PHP to create and debug a Flex client that consumes a PHP service.

This chapter presents the most important problems you’ll have to solve when working with arrays in PHP and MySQL and, of course, solutions for these problems.

Learn to use jQuery, the lightweight JavaScript framework, to add Asynchronous JavaScript + XML (Ajax) functionality to your PHP pages.

Welcome to the second installment of our five-part series of articles on xdebug, the PHP developer’s swiss army knife extension. The installation of xdebug and its basic features were covered last week. This week, we will explore the tracing feature of xdebug.

Author Thomas Myer shows experienced PHP developers how to add CouchDB to their technical toolboxes.

Separation of concerns is a concept in object-oriented (OO) software design that allows you to build more-modular applications. Modular applications are easier to maintain and add new features to. PHP's OO language features allow you to apply design concepts to build more robust, maintainable applications.

A whole lot of people seem to be moving from web page development to building RIA-s these days. But while the emergence of the new client side technologies is easy to notice, with names like Flex, Silverlight or JavaFX appearing more and more often in the context of web development, the move to RIAs also affects the server side coders.

Follow along in this "What's new in PHP V5.3" series of articles that covers the new and exciting features found in PHP V5.3, which will be released by the end of 2008. Part 1 looks at the changes made to the object-oriented programming and object handling in PHP V5.3. Here in Part 2, we look at closures and lambda functions. They are designed to make programming much easier by allowing you to easily define throwaway functions that can be used in many contexts.