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System Integrity Monitor - Many of us use online services to monitor web server status, if it goes down, if all services are up and running fine, which send back notification...

Here is a very new project that claims to be the fastest PHP Framework available. DooPHP is a rapid development framework for PHP using commonly known design patterns like MVC...

Just released today: WebMesh Framework 0.13 and WebMesh Newsletter case study. WebMesh Framework is strongly based on PHP5 and proposes a standard structure for PHP projects with intention of Force a better...

Sitepoint have a new article today introducing to PHP Namespaces, one of the latest addition in PHP 5.3. In the article Craig Buckler show why do we need namespaces and how...

Last night I installed a Pear channel on my Aspire One so thought about sharing the installation process with you. You might have a look at Greg Beaver's howto, three years...

Innomatic is a mature and easy-to-use distributed container for PHP 5 Web applications. It is particularly oriented towards business and administrative applications such as CRM, CMS, Web-based frontends for legacy applications,...

You probably know tinyurl, bit.ly, is.gd and the list is too long of URL shortener. Florian Anderiasch wrote his own URL Shortener in PHP and released code under BSD license. The...

To celebrate their five years birthday, Packt Publishing offered five books FREE for download. Books include Building Online Communities with phpBB 2, Invision Power Board: A User Guide, Building Websites with...

OCI8 extension for Oracle have been improved in PHP5.3 with 7 bugs fixed in addition to many improvements and new features mainly : Added Database Resident Connection Pooling (DRCP) and Fast Application...

Inspekt is a PHP library that makes it easier to write secure web applications, and released under New BSD License. Inspekt acts as a sort of 'firewall' API between user input...