The NETTUTS.com website has a new tutorial posted that combines PHP and AJAX (using the the jQuery library specifically) to create a simple dynamic poll.
When you combine some neat functionality courtesy of PHP with the cleverness of jQuery you can produce some pretty cool results. In this tutorial we'll create a poll using PHP and XHTML, then make use of some jQuery Ajax effects to eliminate the need for a page refresh, and to give it a nice little bit of animation.
The PHP handles defining the question, answers and the functionality to load, submit and return the current results (number of votes) back to the javascript. The communication between the PHP and javascript is a JSON message made simple thanks to PHP's json_encode function.
Roshan Bhattarai has set up an informal poll in an entry on his site asking visitors to rate what they think the "best" PHP framework is.
I've been asked a lot of times which is the best PHP framework. Well, it's a very difficult question to answer this question and there are some pros and corns in each framework. So, today I would to hear your views via poll.
Included in the list are CakePHP, Symfony, Zend Framework, CodeIgniter. Coming out with around forty-three percent of the votes, though, is the Zend Framework with CakePHP following with twenty-two percent.
Tim Koschuetzki has started up a new poll on his site asking its visitors questions involving CakePHP:
The new poll asks you if you are using the CakePHP Framework already or if you plan on using it. For those of you who don't know it yet - it's in my opinion th framework to go these days. The easy and intuitive MVC architecture and the components in it make php development really easy and fun.
So far there haven't been any votes (it's still pretty new) so get on over and voice your opinion now.
CakePHP is one of the more popular and powerful PHP frameworks out there and it has a loyal following of dedicated users and developers on its team. It's definitely worth checking out if you're still perusing the market for a framework to go with.
As mentioned by Nick Halstead, the results are in from the poll for the "Most Influential Programmers" list that he put together, including a PHP name in the top five.
About a month ago I posted my Top 10 most influential programmers which caused a bit of a stir. So I then followed it up with an online poll which I said I would run for a month. The time is up and the final results are in.
Coming in at fifth place is Rasmus Lerdorf of PHP fame (topped by the likes of Linus Torvads and Alan Turing). As Nick mentions, though, it was interesting to see that Zeev Suraski and Andi Gutmans only received a handful of votes.
The PHP-GTK Community site has posted a new poll that ask PHP-GTK developers which, of the choices provided is their favorite editing widget used in their applications.
The choices are:
GtkScintilla
GtkSourceView
GtkTextView
They also included the "Homegrown" option for anyone that might have whipped up their own. At the time of this posting, GtkScintilla and GtkTextView are tied with two votes apiece. If you're a PHP-GTK developer and have worked much with text editing widgets, head over and cast your vote today!
Nick Halstead is conducting a poll of his own to try to figure out who the online community thinks are the "Top 10 Programmers of All Time".
My original list was based upon my programming background and was purely my own opinion and I did not expect everyone to agree with it. What I thought I would do this time round was to give everyone a chance to voice their opinion. [...] have pre-filled 18 programmers from my original list plus those that were suggested in the comments.
You can vote on a wide range of developers, including several PHP-associated once like Rasmus Lerdorf, Andi Gutmans and Zeev Suraski.
The results from the latest poll conducted by the International PHP Magazine have been released. This time, they asked developers what they thought was the best way to do QA for their PHP applications.
Among the options were things like "Do API documentation", "Use code analyzers that check CS violations, XSS or SQL injection attacks" and the number one choice - "Do unit tests using PHPUnit or phpt". Three other options followed behind (using debugging tools, code analyzers and having a commit mailing list) with the API documentation falling down in last place.
They already started up this week's poll too. This time, they ask developers to vote on which of the options make for good PHP code. There's four options - structured, consistent, portable and secure. Get your vote in today!
The International PHP Magazine has posted the results for this week's poll that asked which, of the options given, was what made the CodeIgniter framework the best.
Coming in in a close race for second and first were the "flexibility" and "saves time" options (with the first beating the other by less than 2 percent).
Be sure to check out and cast your vote in their latest poll posted this week that asks "What's the best way to do QA in PHP?"
The PHP-GTK Community website has posted the results of their PHP IDE survey (2007) that's just wrapped up:
Following a two-weeks poll, a first for the community site, the results for the development environment used by PHP-GTK developers are in.
The top three spots on the list were a close run - Eclipse topped the list with 30 percent followed by the generic "simple editors" option at 26 percent and Zend Studio at 25 percent. The rest of the options (well, besides PHPEdit at 4 percent) were at 3 percent or lower in representation. Check out the post for the graph of the outcome and some of their own commentary on the results. Also, check out this page for the full results from the poll.
The International PHP Magazine is back with the results on their latest poll today that asked developers to vote on which, of their options, a PHP developer should give the most effort towards when creating their applications.
Options included "Magic Methods", "IDE's" and "Database Support" but the number one option that got the most votes by far was "Classes". This left second ("All" at 19.3 percent) and third ("Database Support" at 8.4 percent) place in the dust.
If you're a CodeIgniter user, be sure to get your vote in on this week's poll asking users to vote on which of the feature options they've given is what makes CodeIgniter the best framework out there.
