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Job Posting: Worldwide Travel Directory Seeks LAMP Consultant (New York City, NY)

Wed, 15 Sep 2010 12:29:44 -0500

Company	Worldwide Travel Directory
Location	New York City, NY (Downtown)
Title	LAMP Consultant
Summary	A worldwide travel directory is seeking a sharp and well-qualified LAMP consultant to work on an online reservation system. This is an outstanding temporary opportunity for a highly analytical IT professional with substantial e-commerce experience, to join a advanced and growing atmosphere! Please consider this position by applying today for immediate consideration. NOTE: Position is contract but could become long-term/permanent for the right fit. Company Description Worldwide Travel Directory Job Description In this short-term, temporary position, the LAMP Consultant will work on an online reservation for a worldwide travel directory. Candidates must come from an e-commerce background and have 5+ years of programming experience with Linux, Apache HTTP Server, MySQL, and PHP. Required Skills 5+ years of programming experience with Linux, Apache HTTP Server, MySQL, and PHP Substantial e-commerce experience Excellent written and verbal communication skills Strong ability to work autonomously Highly analytical Experience with all phases of application development from initial design through deployment Ability to interpret and analyze existing code base Desired Skills Experience in developing mobile apps Prior exposure to online booking and travel development. i.e. Expedia, Travelocity, or similar For more information or to submit your resume, contact Michael J. Pisano at MPisano@execu-search.com.

Matthew Weier O'Phinney's Blog: Applying FilterIterator to Directory Iteration

Tue, 17 Aug 2010 10:29:38 -0500

New on his blog Matthew Weier O'Phinney has this post looking about using the FilterIterator (from PHP's SPL libraries) to work with (recursive) directory iteration.

I'm currently doing research and prototyping for autoloading alternatives in Zend Framework 2.0. One approach I'm looking at involves creating explicit class/file maps; these tend to be much faster than using the include_path, but do require some additional setup. [...] I'm well aware of RecursiveDirectoryIterator, and planned to use that. However, I also had heard of FilterIterator, and wondered if I could tie that in somehow. In the end, I could, but the solution was non-obvious.

He starts with what he thought he should be able to do with the FilterIterator - pass in a DirectoryIterator to be able to filter them recursively. Unfortunately this only worked for the first level, so he looked else where. His solution ultimately involved passing in a RecursiveIteratorIterator instance into the DirectoryIterator that contained his RecursiveDirectoryIterator. He includes a full code example in the post showing how to locate a certain file/class recursively inside a directory.

Rafael Dohms' Blog: Iterating over life with SPL Iterators I: Directories

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 11:57:33 -0500

Rafael Dohms has posted the first part of a series he's writing looking at the Iterators that come with the Standard PHP Library (SPL). In this first article he focuses on Directory iterators.

Wouldn't it be nice if you could go by life just applying a foreach to each year and life day by day? Ok, that was an awful joke, but using iterators does make life a lot easier and fun, and that's without mentioning cleaner code. SPL's iterator classes are really awesome and helpful, replacing multiple lines of code and a handful functions with a simple new this and a foreach can really help cleaning up code.

He looks at both the DirectoryIterator and the RecursiveDirectoryIterator with code examples to go with each.

DevShed: Using Directory Iterators to Build Loader Apps in PHP

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 10:17:11 -0500

DevShed finishes off their "loader" series of tutorials today with this eighth part focusing on the use of Directory Iterators.

Here's where the SPL comes in, since it's possible to use a combination of its "spl_autoload_register()" function and its RecursiveDirectoryIterator class to refactor the method in question and make it shorter and tighter. In this final chapter of the series I'm going to improve the loader class developed in the previous one by incorporating some of the aforementioned SPL functions and classes.

They change up their code to use a RecursiveDirectoryIterator inside of their __autoload to remove their custom recursive code.

Tiffany Brown's Blog: Simple pagination for arrays with PHP 5

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 08:48:20 -0600

Tiffany Brown has a quick tutorial on a pagination method she's come up with for splitting out array contents over multiple pages.

While working on a recent project, I had to build a feature that displayed a list of files available in a directory. A simple way is just to use scandir() and a foreach loop to spit out a pretty list. There's a small problem though: long lists aren't all that user friendly. I decided instead to paginate the results. Here's one way to do it using PHP 5.

Her method reads in all of the (valid) files from the directory, assigns them to an array and uses the array_chunk function to split them up into groups on five. These groups can be easily looped through and displayed out as links easily.

PHPro.org: SPL Autoload

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 09:31:48 -0600

On the PHPro.org website, Kevin Waterson has written up an introduction to the handy autoloading functionality that comes with PHP5 releases - the __autoload method from the Standard PHP Library (SPL).

The SPL __autoload() method is one of the Magic Methods supplied in PHP. The __autoload method is called whenever a class is instantiated and will load the classs the the first time it is called. No longer is include(), require, include_once() or require_once needed as the SPL autoload takes care of this interally.

He looks at how you can use it to load a directory of classes, how to use multiple autoloads in a single script and how to use it with interfaces to register a loader and include it as needed.

NETTUTS.com: Scanning Folders with PHP

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:18:28 -0600

The NETTUTS.com site has posted a new PHP-related screencast that covers a simple script to scan over the contents of folders in PHP. To illustrate, they create an image gallery script that mirrors the filesystem structure.

Let's imagine that you want to build a page that will display snapshots of your latest work. [...] In such instances, the best solution is to make PHP scan your "portfolio" folder and dynamically create the code for you. If you want to update your page with a new snapshot, all that you need to do is drag the image, and its respective thumbnail, into the appropriate folders - and PHP will do the rest. Let's build it now!

The screencast comes complete with the entire source and a link to a demo to show the end result.

PHPImpact Blog: Scalable and Flexible Directory Structure for Web Applications

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 11:17:30 -0500

In this new post on the PHP::Impact blog, Federico looks at some examples of directory setups for web apps that can help to make them both scalable and flexible.

Designing a modular and component-based directory structure for your Web applications can seem like an easy task. If your system is small, it may seem logical to go with the simplest design possible, but if there's anything more time consuming and complex than developing a new directory structure design, it's trying to redesign an existing system that wasn't developed with growth in mind.

He breaks it up into a few different topics that can be applied where needed to keep the application in check:

Consistency
Scalability and Flexibility
Single Application
Multi-application
Naming Conventions
Versioning
Proposed Structure

PHPedia Blog: Top 5 PHP replacements for Apache default directory listing

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:21:25 -0500

The PHPedia blog has posted their top five list if scripts to replace the default listing Apache does for a directory without an index file.

Here's their list:

Check out the PHPedia post for example screenshots of each.

Builder.com.au: How do I...recursively scan directories with PHP's DirectoryIterators?

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 07:55:21 -0500

Builder.com.au has a new tutorial posted today talking about the use if Iterators (from PHP's SPL) to recurse down through directories on your local drive.

One of PHP5's most interesting new features is the addition of Iterators, a collection of ready-made interfaces designed to help in navigating and processing hierarchical data structures. These Iterators significantly reduce the amount of code required to process an XML document tree or a file collection.

They give three examples - two basic ones showing a simple use of the DirectoryIterator and RecursiveDirectoryIterator and another slightly more complex one showing how to get information from the recursive iteration as it goes down.