PHPDeveloper.org http://www.phpdeveloper.org Up-to-the Minute PHP News, views and community en-us Sat, 25 May 2013 22:12:14 -0500 30 <![CDATA[Michael Caplan's Blog: Don't Forget to Flush ]]> http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/11702 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/11702 In this recent post to his blog Michael Caplan looks at a feature of PHP that's sometimes forgotten when pushing out larger chunks of data - flushing.

As a recluse who prefers hiding behind servers rather than dancing around your web browser's canvas, I was intrigued with their server side recommendations - however sparse they may be. In particular, flushing generated head content early to speed up overall page delivery and rending time was a technique new to me.

Michael looks at what "flushing generated head content" means and includes a scenario - pulling the top palettes from the COLOURlovers site - and some performance stats on page load time and response time directly from the server (complete with graphs).

]]> Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:09:15 -0600 <![CDATA[Tobias Schlitt's Blog: Sending HEAD requests with ext/curl]]> http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/10497 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/10497 In a new post, Tobias Schlitt looks at how to send HEAD requests right along with the rest of your payload with the ext/curl extension for PHP.

I recently wanted to perform a HEAD request to a file, after which I wanted to perform some more advanced HTTP interaction, so CURL was also the tool of choice here.

He started with the (slow?) command line to get the parameters right before moving into PHP. After picking out the right ones ("curl -I -X HEAD http://localhost/admin/") he transfers them into a series of curl_setopt calls that specifies a HEAD request type and no content to send (with CURLOPT_NOBODY).

]]> Fri, 27 Jun 2008 08:48:02 -0500 <![CDATA[David Coallier's Blog: Namespaces has PHP 5.3 (Or the other way around)]]> http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/8755 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/8755 David Coallier has some happy news for PHP developers all over - namespaces have officially been committed to to HEAD branch:

This means that the next PHP version (5.3) will have namespaces. The patch by Greg Beaver to allow multiple namespaces has not been applied yet but I sure do expect it to be applied to 5_3 and HEAD soon.

More technical details can be found via the patch details and some basic articles on how to use them in your code.

]]> Mon, 01 Oct 2007 10:21:00 -0500 <![CDATA[Zend Developer Zone: Zend Weekly Summaries Issue #322]]> http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/7181 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/7181 The latest weekly summary for the PHP mailing lists has been posted over on the Zend Developer Zone. This week, discussions included:
  • Sandboxed semaphores
  • Focus on *printf [continued]
  • PHP 5.2.1 RC2 and PHP 4.4.5 RC1
  • It's all in the HEAD
Descriptions of each of the headings are provided, including code and a "short version" for those on the run.

Be sure to check back each week for a new summary.

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