You'll need:

• 5+ years of interactive advertising experience, e.g., creating HTML and CSS pages based on comps created in Illustrator and Photoshop
• 1+ year using Actionscript and Flash
• Advanced skills in coding, web pages, banners, and emails in HTML & CSS
• Experience with rich-media platforms including Eyeblaster a plus
• Proficient in hand-coded html, both table-based and CSS (Javascript ability a plus)
• Proficient in php and mySQL
• Proficient in Adobe web suite tools (PhotoShop, Illustrator, Flash, Dreamweaver)
• Basic familiarity with flash and communication through PHP
• An ambidextrous brain that can work in Mac and PC platforms

You're capable of:

• Work on projects primarily under the direction of the interactive creative director, but also with art directors and designers to make sure that creative specs, project goals and deadlines are met
• Work from client-approved concepts or comps from art directors to build online advertising campaigns
• Make revisions and subsequent versions with little supervision
• Remain flexible and sane in a high-pressure, deadline-driven environment
• Pay exceptional attention to details in graphics, layout and typography to maintain brand integrity
• Stay abreast of emerging tools and techniques with web applications and share your knowledge with the rest of us
• Juggle multiple projects simultaneously
• Organize and archive digital assets per company standards

For more information or to submit your resume for consideration, please contact Betsy Irvine at birvine@moroch.com.

We're a professional interactive development company. We have a solid client list, and we partner with some of the leading branding and design shops in Austin. We're a learning organization, we like to take on varied and interesting projects, incorporating all that's new and robust in the open source frontier. We develop primarily in PHP/MYSQL.

This is a dream position for the lead developer/project manager who has the skill, temperament, and desire to:

• Write effective, well documented code;
• Effectively interview clients to gain an understanding of the requirements and constraints of the project to be coded for;
• Design solutions including database schemas; ER diagrams, and screenshots;
• Create developer time budgets required to execute projects;
• Monitor developer time budgets and make adjustments throughout project development;
• Identify out of scope work requests from clients;
• Create project schedules;
• Interact with clients throughout project life cycles;
• Manage a team of developers working on several simultaneous projects;
• Review code throughout projects to insure solid coding practices and proper documentation.

We get hired because we're as passionate about our clients' businesses as they are. We become truly collaborative partners, using our extensive business, systems, database and programming experience to build intelligent, creative, and robust applications. In this position you will be using your business, analysis and programming skills on an interesting variety of projects to develop:

• customized content management systems
• extranet applications
• database driven portfolio sites
• e-businesses
• internet communities
• professional brochure sites, and
• ecommerce sites with complex autoresponder and electronic delivery requirements.

We offer industry leading compensation and a great atmosphere. Please send your resume and salary requirements to jessica@wildwoodinteracctive.com

Thankfully, PHP provides the interactive shell, allowing you to test out PHP interactively with immediate feedback. Here's how to take advantage of this mature feature of PHP.

With the help of the "-a" flag on the command line, the PHP binary will hand you an environment where you can code PHP and instantly see the results. He does mention a few quirks that make it different than working with PHP through a web server, namely moving in and out of code blocks and remembering to finish out with a semi-colon when the line is done.

We have an exciting permanent opportunity for a PHP Developer to join our highly successful and growing Interactive Group. Our high end flash games and animated characters have made Webkinz.com the fastest growing children's entertainment site on the internet. Be part of our dynamic Ganz Interactive Group and contribute to exciting future projects.

Responsibilities:

• Optimize SQL queries and understand object oriented programming.
• Manipulate data and log files to provide extensive statistical reporting.
• Create and maintain PHP scripts.
• Ensure high level of server and network security.
• Create and maintain detailed documentation of server and database environment.
• Work on applications with high volume of users.

Qualifications:

• A minimum of 3 years PHP or combined PHP and JAVA development. experience, involving both front end and back end programming.
• Experience working with Unix/Linux Servers and writing secure applications.
• Experience with MySQL or other DBMS' is a plus.
• Familiarities with XML, Flash and good documentation skills are a plus.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Computer Science/Engineering degree preferred.
• Experience with additional programming languages preferred.

Interested candidates are invited to forward resumes by email to careers@ganz.com.

Please check out our website www.webkinz.com.

Zipline Interactive has released the second version of their free PHP Function Finder Gadget for Windows Vista. The tool can be downloaded directly from the Zipline Interactive website at: http://www.gozipline.com/23,phpfunctionfindergadget. You can also download the latest version by going to the PHP.net website sidebar page located at: http://www.php.net/sidebars.

This new version is quite a bit smaller (physically) than its predecessors and is rectangular so it fits a bit better alongside other gadgets. They also fixed a bug that was causing a blink to happen when the search was performed.

Grab this latest download here.

Company is seeking web application developers to expand upon our existing architecture using PHP, Javascript, MySQL. Working in coordination with our project management team, the Web Application Engineer takes product specification and requirements to build fully functional extranet and intranet applications.

Qualifications:

• 2 - 5+ years of Web application development.
• Experience using CVS or SVN
• Development experience with PHP, XML, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, AJAX, and Web Services.
• SQL and relational database modeling.
• Have built highly scalable web applications for consumer and/or business sites.
• Ability to work effectively independently and as part of a team.
• Experience in working in a diverse, fast paced solution oriented application development environment.
• Background in object oriented development

Work Authorization: US citizens, Green card holder.
Employment Type: Full Time Salary
Salary: Unspecified
Education: Bachelor Degree or Equivalent Experience

Contact John Cox at john [at] this domain.

phpa is an interactive command line shell for PHP by David Phillips. Stefan Fischerlander, usually known as a SEO expert and Perl admirer, has patched phpa for Mac OS X and Windows (the default builds theredo not seem to support a feature required by phpa). The result: phpa-norl. Stefan successfully ran this on OS X, and I could confirm that it runs on Windows, as well

He also mentions some features of the client including a history feature that makes looking back through previous commands simple.

I had suggested in an email to the CakePHP mailing list that an interactive console for doing testing of Models would be good. While at php|tek I spent a lot of time with the CakePHP guys talking about this. Out of it came some more ideas (like the ability to test your routes) and they even implemented a console that spits out API information for you. Very cool stuff. So, I decided to do a little screencast demo of a very early alpha version of the interactive console.

The screencast shows Chris running a test on his own classes, including demonstrating the built-in help the app offers.

On the CakePHP mailing list, somebody familiar with Ruby on Rails' console functionality asked "why isn't there one of these in Cake?" [...] So I got to thinking about how to do this. On the surface, it seems the easiest way to do this is to write a PHP script that takes entries on the command line, run the input through an 'eval' statement. Sounds easy enough, and I could write that in a hurry. I think the trickiness comes in figuring out how to hook it into CakePHP so that you can access Models that already exist.

For those attending the Vancouver PHP Conference, attend his talk and you might get amention of how far he's come with the idea. Otherwise, stay tuned to his blog for updates.

A full discussion of Ajax is not within the scope of this book and would be mostly a discussion of JavaScript, not PHP. However, the listings in this section demonstrate one quick example that shows how Ajax can call a PHP script, pass it data, and display the results back to the user.

Their simple example makes a "time service" that can be pulled from any remote script (in the domain, of course). The PHP for the backend is simple - just echoing out the current time, and the HTML/Javascript is simple too, making a basic XMLHttpRequest call to the backend script.